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Article: ROAD RAVE CHERUIYOT AT HEAD OF THE KENYAN CLASS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 22, 2003
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All the way down Beacon Street, Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot kept
glancing anxiously over his shoulder, as if he were being chased by
the Headless Horseman or the ghost of Clarence DeMar. "I was looking
for my friend," the winner of the 107th Boston Marathon said, after
he'd run away from Benjamin Kosgei Kimutai and more than 17,000 other
panting pursuers yesterday afternoon. "I was expecting him to be
behind me."
The 24-year-old Cheruiyot, the youngest Boston victor since
countryman Cosmas Ndeti in 1994, figured at least a couple of his
Kenyan homeboys would give him a footrace for the last few miles. But
after he left them legless going up Heartbreak Hill, the rest of the
challengers might ...