Boston Marathon Champions & National Record Holders Headline Professional Field for 2022 B.A.A. 10K

Reigning Boston Marathon Winner Evans Chebet, American Report Holders Emily Sisson & Ben True Lead Fields for June 26 Race

BOSTON – The Boston Athletic Affiliation (B.A.A.) has introduced a star-studded subject for the 2022 B.A.A. 10K, offered by Brigham and Girls’s Hospital, to be held on Sunday, June 26. Evans Chebet, the 2022 Boston Marathon males’s open division champion, will return to Boston, whereas lately topped American half marathon report holder Emily Sisson will lead the ladies’s subject on the roads of Again Bay. 4-time B.A.A. 5K champion and American 5K report holder Ben True will even make his B.A.A. 10K debut.

The B.A.A. 10K begins and finishes on Charles Road adjoining to Boston Frequent and Boston Public Backyard, and is broadly considered one of many quickest 10K races on this planet. Registration stays open at www.baa.org, whereas athletes concerned with supporting Brigham and Girls’s Hospital, the B.A.A. 10K’s presenting sponsor and unique fundraising associate, are inspired to go to www.runbwh.org/10k.

“We’re excited to proceed to showcase the world’s most achieved runners at our B.A.A. occasions,” mentioned Mary Kate Shea, the B.A.A.’s Director of Skilled Athletes and Technical Assist. “We’re trying ahead to cheering on all members as they race in direction of the end.”

The B.A.A. 10K girls’s race brings collectively Boston Marathon champions Des Linden (2018) and Edna Kiplagat (2017), American report holder Sisson, 2017 B.A.A. 10K winner Joan Chelimo Melly, 2022 Boston Marathon prime American Nell Rojas, 2016 USA Olympian Marielle Corridor, and USA 15K runner-up Emily Durgin.

Sisson, a Windfall School graduate and 2021 Olympian, ran 1:07:11 on Could 7 to win the USATF Half Marathon Championships in a brand new nationwide report. She’s additionally the defending USA 15K champion.

“Breaking the American report within the half marathon was very thrilling and I am now trying ahead to switching issues up and racing completely different distances,” mentioned Sisson. “The 10K is a enjoyable and completely different problem and I at all times love racing in Boston.”

Further worldwide entrants embrace Biruktayit Degefa of Ethiopia, who has gained a quartet of American street races this spring, and Kenya’s Sharon Lokedi, who positioned third on the 2022 B.A.A. 5K in April. From the B.A.A. Excessive Efficiency group are Erika Kemp and Abbey Wheeler; Kemp is a two-time nationwide champion.

Within the males’s race, Chebet seems to change into solely the second Boston Marathon champion to win the B.A.A. 10K, becoming a member of the likes of 2011 winner and course report holder Geoffrey Mutai. Chebet stormed to his first Boston Marathon victory in 2:06:51 on April 18.

“After profitable the 2022 Boston Marathon, I’m excited to return to the town to run the B.A.A. 10K with a world class subject,” mentioned Chebet. “Boston looks like a second house to me now.”

Difficult Chebet from Kenya are David Bett, the reigning 2019 B.A.A. 10K winner; Kennedy Kimutai, the quickest man within the subject with a 27:09 lifetime finest; Bravin Kiptoo, the 2019 African junior 10,000m champion; and Nicholas Kosimbei, winner of this yr’s Cherry Blossom 10 Miler in Washington, D.C. Brothers Jake and Zane Robertson, a dynamic pair from New Zealand who’ve lived and skilled in Kenya, will even race. Current Iowa State graduate and NCAA champion Wesley Kiptoo will make his Boston street racing debut.

Maine-native Ben True will return to acquainted territory, having gained the B.A.A. 5K 4 instances, together with a national-record setting run of 13:20 in 2017.  Fellow American contenders embrace Olympians Leonard Korir and Shadrack Kipchirchir, Princeton, Mass.-native Colin Bennie, and a quartet of B.A.A. Excessive Efficiency Group members in Jerrell Mock, Matt McDonald, Jonas Hampton, and Paul Hogan. Korir enters the B.A.A. 10K scorching off a pair of nationwide title wins on the USATF Half Marathon and USATF 25K Championships in Could.

Within the wheelchair division, Jenna Fesemyer, the 2022 B.A.A. 5K girls’s winner, Susannah Scaroni, the 2022 Boston Marathon runner-up, and 2020 Paralympian Yen Hoang are entered. Scaroni earned a gold medal on the observe on the 2021 Paralympic Video games within the 5000m, and is the quickest girls’s wheelchair marathoner in U.S. historical past. James Senbeta and Hermin Garic are the highest males’s wheelchair entrants.

For the primary time in race historical past, Para Athletics Divisions can be provided for athletes with upper-limb, lower-limb, and visible impairments. Among the many entrants confirmed embrace Marko Cheseto Lemtukei, Chaz Davis, and Liz Willis, every of whom gained Para Division titles at April’s 126th Boston Marathon. Jacky Hunt-Broersma, who ran 104 marathons in 104 consecutive days for a Guinness World Report, and native Para athlete Adrianne Haslet are additionally entered.

Media members concerned with protecting the B.A.A. 10K, offered by Brigham and Girls’s Hospital, could apply for credentials right here.

Along with racing, prime skilled athletes will take part within the first-ever B.A.A. 10K Fest & Discipline Day on Saturday, June 25, someday previous to the race. From 2:00 p.m. to six:00 p.m. at Boston Frequent, 10K Fest & Discipline Day will function youth health actions, video games, appearances by skilled athletes, working clinics, and extra. Contributors will even have the ability to pick-up their participant shirts and bib numbers at 10K Fest. Further particulars can be obtainable on baa.org within the coming weeks.

Registration for the 2022 B.A.A. 10K, offered by Brigham and Girls’s Hospital, is presently open by means of the B.A.A.’s on-line platform Athletes’ Village. All members who enter will obtain an adidas participant shirt, distinctive bib quantity, and finisher medal. Further participant data will be discovered on baa.org. The race will begin at 8:00 a.m. ET on Sunday, June 26 on Charles Road adjoining to Boston Frequent and Boston Public Backyard.

Brigham and Girls’s Hospital, the B.A.A. 10K’s presenting sponsor and unique fundraising associate, will once more subject a group of fundraising runners. Since 2016, greater than 2,100 runners and 180 groups have raised $1.2 million to gas life-giving breakthroughs at Brigham and Girls’s Hospital. Be taught extra and register at www.runbwh.org/10k.

On June 1, the B.A.A. will have a good time International Operating Day with a particular pop-up location on the Boston Marathon End Line between 3:00-6:00 p.m. Runners can take an image with the Boston Marathon trophy, obtain giveaways, refreshments, and extra! RSVP for the free occasion on our Fb web page, and log miles all through the day as a part of the Abbott World Marathon Majors International Operating Day Problem. Go to https://bstnmar.org/GRD22 to enroll in free, observe your miles, and print a bib to put on as you be part of a worldwide group of athletes world wide logging miles.

2022 B.A.A. 10K WOMEN’S FIELD (NAME, COUNTRY, ROAD 10K PB)

Joan Chelimo Melly, Romania, 30:14^

Edna Kiplagat, Kenya, 31:06*

Sharon Lokedi, Kenya, 31:06

Mary Munanu, Kenya, 31:20

Biruktayit Degefa, Ethiopia, 31:23

Emily Sisson, USA, 31:47

Emily Durgin, USA, 31:49

Diane Nukuri, USA, 31:49

Lanni Marchant, Canada, 31:49

Vibian Chepkirui, Kenya, 31:49

Nell Rojas, USA, 31:52

Erika Kemp, USA, 32:18

Laura Thweatt, USA, 32:20

Elaina Tabb, USA, 32:40

Rachel Schneider Smith, USA, 32:47

Abbey Wheeler, USA, DB (32:53.50 10,000m)

Grayson Murphy, USA, 32:55

Fiona O’Keeffe, USA, 32:57

Katie Kellner, USA, 33:05

Des Linden, USA, 33:06*

Taylor Werner, USA, 33:35

Marielle Corridor, USA, 33:36 (31:05.71 10,000m)

Allie Hackett, USA, 35:17

Jesca Chelangat, Kenya, DB (15:16 5K)

Courtney Hawkins, USA, DB (37:59.99 10,000m)

^ = Earlier B.A.A. 10K Champion

* = Earlier Boston Marathon Champion

2022 B.A.A. 10K MEN’S FIELD (NAME, COUNTRY, ROAD 10K PB)

Okennedy Kimutai, Okenya, 27:09

Bravin Kiptoo, Kenya, 27:12

Philemon Kiplimo, Kenya, 27:23

Zane Robertson, New Zealand, 27:28

Jake Robertson, New Zealand, 27:28

Wesley Kiptoo, Kenya, N/A (27:37.29 10,000m)

Ben True, USA, 27:51

Nicholas Kosimbei, Kenya, 27:52

John Dressel, USA, N/A (27:57.51 10,000m)

David Bett, Kenya, 28:08^

Dominic Korir, Kenya, 28:08

Leonard Korir, USA, 28:09

Shadrack Kipchirchir, USA, 28:12

David Nilsson, Sweden, 28:13

Tsegay Tuemay, Eritrea, 28:13

Bethwell Yegon, Kenya, 28:24

Reuben Mosip, Kenya, 28:28

Paul Hogan, USA, N/A (28:49.55 10,000m)

Johannes Motschmann, Germany, 28:51

Alex Masai, Kenya, 28:53

Colin Bennie, USA, 28:55

Futsum Zienasellassie, USA, 29:03

Matt McClintock, USA, 29:02

Jacob Thomson, USA, 29:07

John Raneri, USA, 29:19

Evans Chebet, Kenya, 29:30*

Jerrell Mock, USA, 29:36

Aaron Dinzeo, USA, 29:37

Matt McDonald, USA, 29:38

Diego Estrada, USA, 29:41

Fabiano Sulle, Tanzania, 29:53

Jonas Hampton, USA, 30:15

Tim McGowan, USA, 30:17

Connor McMillan, USA, 30:20

Josh Kalapos, USA, N/A (14:33.88 5,000m)

^ = Earlier B.A.A. 10K Champion

* = Earlier Boston Marathon Champion

2022 B.A.A. 10K WOMEN’S WHEELCHAIR FIELD (NAME, COUNTRY)

Susannah Scaroni, USA

Jenna Fesemyer, USA

Yen Hoang, USA

2022 B.A.A. 10K MEN’S WHEELCHAIR FIELD (NAME, COUNTRY)

James Senbeta, USA

Hermin Garic, USA

2022 B.A.A. 10K PARA ATHLETICS DIVISIONS FIELD (NAME, COUNTRY, CLASSIFICATION)

Marko Cheseto Lemtukei, USA*, T62 (Decrease Limb Impairment)

Chaz Davis, USA*, T12 (Imaginative and prescient Impairment)

Brian Reynolds, USA, T62 (Decrease Limb Impairment)

Liz Willis, USA*, T64 (Decrease Limb Impairment)

Jacky Hunt-Broersma, Netherlands, T64 (Decrease Limb Impairment)

Adrianne Haslet, USA, T64 (Decrease Limb Impairment)

* = Earlier Boston Marathon Para Athletics Division Champion