Boston's 2027 cutoff: 5:17, plus a new lottery
Boston accepted a record 25,630 qualifiers and turned away 8,019, with 1,000 of them now getting a lottery ticket. Plus Assefa's Achilles surgery and Clayton Young racing Chicago on a torn hamstring.
Read the whole week in one goAssefa's torn Achilles, and the shoe argument it started
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Boston 2027 cutoff lands at 5:17, 8,019 qualifiers rejected
The B.A.A. has accepted a record 25,630 qualified runners for the 2027 Boston Marathon on April 19, with the cutoff at 5 minutes 17 seconds under each age-group standard.
Races and results
Assefa's coach speaks, adidas flew her out for Achilles surgery
Tigst Assefa's coach Gemedu Dedefo put out a statement Tuesday on the Achilles she tore winning Berlin, and David Monti says adidas arranged a private jet so she could get treatment as fast as possible.
But this couldn’t happen in the pre-supershoe era.
Clayton Young will race Chicago on a 12-centimeter hamstring tear
Clayton Young is still in for the October 11 Chicago Marathon and still chasing Conner Mantz's 2:04:43 American record, two weeks out from the race, with a 12-centimeter split tear in his semitendinosus.
I’m really confident in my ability to still chase the American record.