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BOSTON -- Kenya's Geoffrey Mutai has won the Boston Marathon in 2 hours, 3 minutes, 2 seconds -- the fastest anyone has ever run the 26.2 mile distance.
The previous best of 2:03:59 was by Haile Gebrselassie in Berlin 2008. Because Monday's race had a strong tailwind on a downhill course, Mutai's run does not qualify as the fastest time ever.
http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/news/story?id=6381520
On the ESPN comments section, someone said that's a 4:41 average mile...