Ethiopian Gotytom, Chebet confirmed for Boston marathon

World champion Gotytom Gebreslase and world record-holder and double Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge will make their Boston Marathon debuts on 17 April 2023, joining six former winners of the World Athletics Elite Platinum Label road race.
Although this will be Gebreslase’s first Boston Marathon, it is far from her first time racing in Boston. The Ethiopian world champion has finished runner-up at the Boston Half Marathon twice and has placed in the top five three times at the Boston 5K. Along with winning the world title, Gebreslase placed third at both the Berlin Marathon and New York City Marathons this year.
Two-time victor Lelisa Desisa Defending champion Evans Chebet, 2021 winner Benson Kipruto will be part of a historically deep men’s elite race. Among the returning champions in the women’s field are Edna Kiplagat, Atsede Baysa and Desiree Linden.
Almost exactly one year after winning the 2021 Boston Marathon, Lelisa won the Chicago Marathon in a PB of 2:04:24. Lelisa Desisa enters Boston with vital experience, having placed in the top two four times at the Boston Marathon. April marks the 10-year anniversary of his first victory, one in which he donated his champion’s medal back to the City of Boston in recognition of the tragedy of 15 April 2013.
Chebet stormed to a 2:06:51 win at the Boston Marathon earlier this year then ran to victory at the New York City Marathon in November. In 2022, Chebet became just the sixth man in history to win the Boston and New York City Marathons in the same year.
Atsede Baysa, the 2016 Boston Marathon winner, also returns. Also a past winner in Chicago and Paris, Baysa finished eighth at the 2021 Boston Marathon. Linden, the winner in 2018, will be racing in her 10th Boston Marathon.