BOSTON, (Reuters) – Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai won the Boston Marathon yesterday in two hours three minutes and two seconds, the fastest time ever recorded over the gruelling distance.
Mutai slashed almost a minute off the official world record of 2:03.59, set by Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie at Berlin in 2008, but his time was not ratified as a new record because he was aided by a tailwind on a hilly course with too much downhill from start to finish.
“Boston marathon performances cannot
