[ti:Olympic Gold Medalist Wins 50th Boston Marathon to Include Women] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.04]The famous Boston Marathon race [00:04.00]returned to its usual date this year for the first time [00:08.76]since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. [00:13.68]This year also marked the 50th anniversary [00:17.80]of women's inclusion in the world's oldest yearly marathon. [00:24.04]Last year's race was held in October [00:27.84]instead of the usual third Monday in April. [00:31.96]The event was delayed because of the pandemic. [00:35.92]The 2020 race was first delayed and then canceled, [00:42.44]also because of the pandemic. [00:46.12]In the women's division, [00:48.04]Olympic gold medalist Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya [00:53.08]placed first in an exciting finish. [00:58.08]She and Ethiopia's Ababel Yeshaneh traded places eight times [01:04.48]in the last 1.6 kilometers of the race. [01:09.48]Jepchirhir pulled ahead of Yeshaneh in the final 352 meters. [01:17.84]She finished the 42.2-kilometer race [01:21.88]in 2 hours, 21 minutes and one second [01:27.08]-- four seconds ahead of Yeshaneh. [01:30.12]Kenya's Mary Ngugi came in third. [01:35.56]Kenya's Evans Chebet won the men's race in 2 hours, 6 minutes, 51 seconds. [01:44.56]He completed the race 30 seconds ahead [01:48.08]of the next-fastest man, Gabriel Geay of Tanzania. [01:54.92]Benson Kipruto, [01:56.72]who won the 2021 Boston Marathon last October, came in third. [02:03.24]American Daniel Romanchuk won the men's wheelchair division, [02:08.56]while Switzerland's Manuela Schar won her second straight title [02:13.64]for the women's wheelchair race. [02:17.48]Thousands of fans filled the streets of Boston to cheer on the runners. [02:23.08]Many of them waved Ukrainian flags [02:26.28]in support of the Ukrainian runners who took part. [02:30.16]Runners from Russia and Belarus were not permitted [02:34.96]to take part because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. [02:40.44]Event organizers said 44 Ukrainians had registered to run. [02:46.16]Only 11 of them lined up to start the race, however. [02:52.12]Ukrainians who were unable to make it to Boston [02:56.28]because of the war were offered their money back [02:59.84]or were told they can race another year. [03:05.76]"Whatever they want to do, they can do," [03:08.80]said Boston Athletic Association President Tom Grilk. [03:13.40]"There is no group we want to be more helpful to." [03:17.72]More than 28,000 runners took part in this year's race. [03:23.28]Among them was American Valerie Rogosheske. [03:27.68]She finished sixth in the first-ever women's race in 1972. [03:33.56]She ran this year with her daughters and also served [03:38.36]as the honorary starter of the women's division. [03:42.52]She said she had been planning to hide in some plants [03:46.24]and run in the 1972 race unofficially before women [03:51.64]got approved to take part a few weeks before the event. [03:56.36]She said that, at the time, "Many people [04:00.04]didn't think we should be running a marathon." [04:03.96]Nina Kuscsik won the 1972 women's race. [04:08.08]She is considered the event's first official women's winner. [04:12.52]However, Bobbi Gibb was the first woman to finish the race. [04:17.60]She completed the full marathon back in 1966. [04:22.76]She was among the unofficial runners known as bandits. [04:27.92]I'm Faith Pirlo. [04:31.08]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM