Well, the Kenyans won again. No surprise there. The big surprises; The Ethiopians didn't run well, and a relative newcomer, Rita Jeptoo, captured the women's race.
Robert Cheruiyot is the men's winner of the 2006 Boston Marathon. He covered the 26-mile, 385-yard distance in a course-record time of two hours, seven minutes and 14 seconds, shaving one second off the old mark set in 1994. Cheruiyot is the 14th Kenyan in 16 years to win the coveted title. Countryman Benjamin Maiyo was the runnerup, one minute and six seconds behind the winner.
It was a successful day for American men with Meb Keflezighi, Brian Sell and Alan Culpepper finishing third, fourth and fifth, respectively. An American hasn't won the men's race in Boston since Greg Meyer in 1983.
Kenya's Rita Jeptoo was the first woman runner to cross the finish line in Beantown. She covered the distance in two hours, 23 minutes and 38 seconds to become the sixth woman from her country to take home a winner's wreath from Boston in the last seven years.
Jelena Prokopcuka of Latvia was the women's runnerup, with Reiko Tosa of Japan finishing third.
** We had the Kenyan flag drapped over the front door in celebration :-)
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