Boston Marathon: Time and Where to Watch as Hellen Obiri Seeks to Become First Woman to Three-Peat in 26 Years
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Kenya’s Hellen Obiri will be out to defend her Boston Marathon title in what will be a historic race for the Kenyan great on Monday.
Obiri will bid to become the first Kenyan woman to win three Boston Marathons in a row after picking up bronze at the Paris Games and finishing second in New York last year.
The race will mark the 12th 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.
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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.
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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 21 at exactly 4:37 PM East African Time and will be broadcast on SuperSport TV.
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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.
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