Two Kenyan runners, both of them making their Boston Marathon debut, have won the prestigious race.
Marcel Hug won Boston for the third time, outpushing 10-time champion Ernst Van Dyk down Boylston Street and finishing in 1:18:04 to beat the course record and world best by 21 seconds. "Running had given me everything, and I wanted other women to feel that as well".
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh stressed that there are no credible threats to this year's marathon.
This was Kiplagat's first major marathon victory since the 2014 London Marathon.
"I had an incredible time out there", he said today in a postrace press conference.
Unlike Gibb, Switzer managed to score a bib by signing up with her initials, K.V. Switzer.
The 121st annual Boston Marathon is officially underway.
Hasay spent most of the race thinking of her late mother, Teresa, who passed away unexpectedly in November at the age of 56.
Kathrine Switzer made sporting history by completing the 1967 marathon, despite being attacked by the race director at the time for being a woman.
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The Boston Marathon started awarding prize money in 1986, a greater incentive for the world's top runners to take part.
The pair practiced together and when Switzer sailed past the finish line of a 26-mile run easily and chose to tack on an extra five miles for good measure, she proved to her coach she was ready. Even her coach at Syracuse - where Switzer trained with the men's cross-country team - told her the distance was too long for "fragile women".
Keflezighi, who plans to retire from racing after this year's NY marathon, stopped after his victory to touch the hand of Bill Richard, whose 8-year-old son Martin was the youngest person to die in the bombing.
"Everybody was saying you're our hero, we love you, and all that", said Keflezighi, the only USA male or female runner to win Boston since 1985.
It was snowing by the time she and her teammates reached the starting line in Hopkinton. She refused and began the race.
"Having someone like that who has won this race, it's just tremendous having a person like that in your corner", Rupp said.
"Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers", race organizer Jock Semple yelled at her that year as he attempted to yank off her bib and then her top during the race. She finished the race in four hours and 20 minutes, but would later be disqualified and expelled from the Amateur Athletic Union. He crossed the finish line with a time of about 3 hours and 50 minutes.
Now Switzer works with her own charity, "261 Fearless" - a non-profit with the goal of empowering women through running. "I was serious about my running and I could not let fear stop me", she said.
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