‘I will be the first’: Hellen Obiri eyes historic Boston Marathon three-peat
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The 34-year-old, who already boasts an illustrious career stretching from track to road races, is set to chase a rare feat at the 2025 Boston Marathon, slated for Monday, 21 April
Kenyan marathoner Hellen Obiri has made history before, and she is ready to do it again.
The 34-year-old, who already boasts an illustrious career stretching from track to road races, is set to chase a rare feat at the 2025 Boston Marathon, slated for Monday, 21 April.
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If she wins the marathon, she will join the elite club of women who have won the event three times in a row.
Bobbi Gibb, Sara Mae Berman, Uta Pippig, and Fatuma Roba have achieved the rare feat before, but none have done so in the modern era with as much versatility across disciplines as Obiri.
“I will be the first one to do it, and I am ready to make it happen. I am here to make it happen. I am ready, I am well focused, I want to give hard, and I want to fight until the end,” she said in an interview with Women’s Running Magazine.
Obiri’s marathon journey has been nothing short of impressive.
Since transitioning to the full marathon distance, she has graced the podium in five of the six races she’s run.
Her accolades include back-to-back Boston Marathon victories, a 2023 New York City Marathon win, a 2024 runner-up finish in the Big Apple, and a bronze medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The only blemish in her marathon résumé came in her debut in New York in 2022, where she finished sixth. She has since transformed that learning curve into dominance.
Ahead of her Boston title defense, Obiri relocated from her training base in Boulder, Colorado, where she trains with the On Athletics Club, to Ngong, Kajiado County, in Kenya.
There, she has been immersed in a 10-week high-altitude training block in the region’s hilly terrain. The change was strategic.
The Boston threepeat is the immediate goal, but her long-term goal is to seal a place in Team Kenya for the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo.
After her bronze medal finish in Paris, she believes Tokyo could finally deliver her long-awaited global gold in the marathon.
From 800m to the marathon, few athletes in history have covered as much ground as Obiri.
In 2019, she became the first woman to win world titles in outdoor track, indoor track, and cross country. Her journey across the 1500m, 5000m, 10,000m, road races, and now the marathon.
With a record like that, it is no surprise she is aiming for greatness yet again.
There is little doubt about Obiri's heart for the race, and the Boston Marathon will be the perfect way to prove it.
