2002 Boston Marathon

The 2002 Boston Marathon was the 106th running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States and was held on April 15. The elite men's race was won by Kenya's Rodgers Rop in a time of 2:09:02 hours and the women's race was won by another Kenyan Margaret Okayo in 2:20:43.

A total of 14,400 people finished the race, 9149 men and 5251 women.

Results[]

Men[]

Position	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Rodgers Rop	Kenya	2:09:02
	Christopher Cheboiboch	Kenya	2:09:05
	Fred Kiprop	Kenya	2:09:45
4	Mbarak Hussein	Kenya	2:09:45
5	Lee Bong-ju	South Korea	2:10:30
6		Kenya	2:10:40
7		Kenya	2:11:39
8		Ethiopia	2:11:43
9	Luis Fonseca	Venezuela	2:11:49
10	Silvio Guerra	Ecuador	2:12:28
11	Joshua Chelanga	Kenya	2:12:40
12	Joshua Kipkemboi	Kenya	2:12:48
13		Kenya	2:13:04
14		Russia	2:13:04
15		United States	2:13:28
16	Elly Rono	Kenya	2:15:17
17		United States	2:15:19
18		Japan	2:15:55
19	Mark Coogan	United States	2:17:35
20		Japan	2:17:58
21		South Africa	2:18:21
22		United States	2:19:03
23	Andrés Espinosa	Mexico	2:19:54
24		Japan	2:20:18
25		Russia	2:20:23

Women[]

Position	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Margaret Okayo	Kenya	2:20:43
	Catherine Ndereba	Kenya	2:21:12
	Elfenesh Alemu	Ethiopia	2:26:01
4	Sun Yingjie	China	2:27:26
5	Firaya Sultanova-Zhdanova	Russia	2:27:58
6	Bruna Genovese	Italy	2:29:02
7	Nuța Olaru	Romania	2:30:26
8		Japan	2:32:00
9	Gitte Karlshøj	Denmark	2:35:01
10		Japan	2:35:34
11	Jackie Fairweather	Australia	2:35:46
12	Irina Timofeyeva	Russia	2:36:47
13		United States	2:38:55
14		United States	2:42:47
15	Norimi Sakurai	Japan	2:43:09
16		Australia	2:43:46
17	Esther Wanjiru	Kenya	2:44:32
18		Japan	2:44:47
19		United States	2:45:00
20		United States	2:46:17
21		United States	2:47:57
22		United States	2:48:49
23		United States	2:48:52
24		Canada	2:49:39
25		Liberia	2:50:10

References[]

• Results. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 2020-04-13.

External links[]

• Boston Athletic Association website