Boston Marathon: Time and where to watch as Obiri & Chebet seek to defend their titles

Hellen Obiri after winning the 2023 Boston Marathon. Photo: Imago

Boston Marathon: Time and where to watch as Obiri & Chebet seek to defend their titles

Joel Omotto 10:02 - 15.04.2024

Hellen Obiri and Evans Chebet will be out to defend their Boston Marathon titles on Monday with other Kenyans also out to dislodge them and here is how you can watch them in action.

Kenya’s Hellen Obiri and Evans Chebet will be out to defend their Boston Marathon titles as they also eye a place in the final Team Kenya to the Paris Olympics.

Obiri is seeking to join Rita Jeptoo and Edna Kiplagat as Kenyan women to have won twice at Boston but she will be up against a strong cast while Chebet is looking to make it three straight titles.

The race will mark the 11th anniversary since the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, when two bombs made from pressure cookers exploded at the finish line, killing three and injuring more than 260 people.

The bombings triggering a massive manhunt that led to the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

The 26-mile marathon course follows a fairly straight line heading east. It begins in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and heads through Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley, Newton and Brookline before heading into Boston and finishing on Boylston Street.

Boston is a notoriously tough course which runners find difficult to navigate but it has been kind to Kenyans in recent years with Kenyan men winning five of the last six, among them titles from 2019 to 2023, while the women have claimed the last three.

When and where to watch in Kenya

The race will take place on Monday April 15 from 4pm Kenyan time and will be broadcast on SuperSport TV.

How to watch the Boston Marathon in the United States

The Boston Marathon is being broadcast on ESPN2 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST. The race will also be available on ESPN+ in the United States.