2022 BAA Boston: Peres Jepchirchir versus Joyciline Jepkosgei

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The women’s field at the 2022 Boston Marathon, to be held on April 18, 2022, is one of the finest that the race has ever assembled. Do not miss the Boston Marathon on Peacock TV on Monday in the U.S. and local providers around the world.

BOSTON (USA): Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir (2:17:16) and London Marathon winner Joyciline Jepkosgei (2:17:43) headline a stacked women’s line-up in the Boston Marathon on 18 April. The line-up also includes two more sub-2:20 competitors in Ethiopia’s Degitu Azimeraw (2:17:58) and Kenya’s Edna Kiplagat (2:19:50) while other notable entrants include former world half marathon record-holder Ababel Yeshaneh from Ethiopia (2:20:51), Olympic bronze medallist Molly Seidel (2:24:42) and last year’s third placer Mary Wacera from Kenya (2:25:20).

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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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