美國選手奪得波士頓馬拉松冠軍

Meb Keflezighi won the 2014 Boston Marathon Monday before thousands of cheering spectators on hand in a show of defiance to last year's twin bombings near the finish line that killed three spectators and injured more than 260 others.

Keflezighi is the first American to win the legendary race since Greg Meyer in 1983. Pumping his fist in exhilaration, the Eritrean-born Keflezighi crossed the finish line Monday in 2 hours, 8 minutes, 37 seconds. In this 118th edition of the race, he beat runner-up Wilson Chebet of Kenya by 11 seconds.

Kenyan Rita Jeptoo won the women's race for the third time, with a record-breaking time of 2 hours, 18 minutes, 57 seconds. Ethiopian Buzunesh Deba finished second, just over a minute later.

This year's race included an expanded field of runners - 36,000, to include about 6,000 from last year who were not allowed to cross the finish line because of the bombings美國選手凱夫萊齊吉贏得2014年波士頓馬拉松冠軍。成千上萬旁觀者在場歡呼助威。去年舉行波士頓馬拉松時，終點線附近發生兩次爆炸，導致三人死亡，數百人受傷。

自從美國選手梅耶1983年獲得波士頓馬拉松冠軍後，凱夫萊齊吉是第一位獲得這項賽事冠軍的美國人。這位出生厄立特里亞的美國人跑過終點線時揮拳以示慶祝。他用兩小時8分37秒跑完全程。這是第118屆波士頓馬拉松比賽。第二名肯尼亞選手徹貝特比他慢了11秒。

肯尼亞選手傑普圖第三次獲得女子冠軍，並創造了這項賽事的新紀錄：兩小時18分57秒。比傑普圖慢了一分鐘的埃塞俄比亞選手德巴獲得第二名。

今年的參賽選手大爲增多，大約3萬六千人蔘加了比賽，其中包括在去年比賽中因發生爆炸而沒有跑過終點線的六千人。