2023-04-17 20:58:20
Last update: 17.04.2023 | 21:58
Luna Chamtai Salpeter finished the prestigious Boston Marathon today (Monday) in third place, when she crossed the finish line after 2:21:57 hours. The one who was ahead of Saltpeter by 19 seconds and took the gold is the Kenyan Helen Obiri, and Amana Brito came second with 2:21:50 hours. Chemtai Salpeter’s Israeli record stands at 2:17:45 hours.
The winner in the men’s race was Kenny Evans Chevet, who did it for the second time in a row after stopping the clock at 2:05:54 hours. He was ten seconds ahead of Gabriel Gayay from Tanzania. Benson Kipruto from Kenya who won the Boston Marathon in 2021 finished third with 2:05:06 hours.
34-year-old Chemtai Salpeter won the bronze medal in the 10,000 meters at the European Championships last August. A month before that, she recorded her record achievement, when she won the bronze medal in the marathon at the World Championships.
The oldest and most prestigious urban marathon in the world
The Boston Marathon is the oldest urban marathon in the world. It began in 1897 as the first urban race in the world, following the inspiration the event organizers received from the first Olympics held a year earlier in Athens, Greece.
Catherine Schweitzer in the 1967 Boston Marathon (Paul Connell/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
This race has a special history when in 1967 it became the first ever marathon race in which a woman competed. This was not the choice of the race organizers, but the extraordinary determination of Catherine Schweitzer, who signed up for the race with the initials (K.W. Schweitzer) despite the ban on women participating in it in those years. Despite violent attempts by the organizers to prevent her from running, she finished it and proved to the whole world that women are also capable of finishing a marathon race.
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