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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Meb Keflezighi won the silver medal at the Athens Olympics. (Alex Trautwig/Getty Images)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;American Meb Keflezighi has become the first American man to win the Boston Marathon since Greg Meyer in 1983.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Keflezighi won the race with a personal best time of 2:08:36, one year after the race was marred by a terrorist attack which killed three people.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 38-year old Olympic silver medalist is also the oldest man to win the event since 1930, when 40-year old Clarence deMar took first place.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Keflezighi finished 11 seconds ahead of second place finisher, Wilson Chebet of Kenya.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The women's race was won for a second consecutive year by Rita Jeptoo with a course record time of \u00A02:18:57.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;.@runmeb is the first American man to win the #BostonMarathon since 1983! Crosses in 2:08:36 (unofficial). What an incredible race.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2014 USATF (@usatf) April 21, 2014&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1931 winner Jimmy Henigan had just turned 38. @runmeb about to turn 39. Clarence deMar won in 1930 at age 40&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2014 Philip Hersh (@olyphil) April 21, 2014&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2:18:57 for Jeptoo, not :47\u2026 Still nearly 2 minutes under course record\n\u2014 Philip Hersh (@olyphil) April 21, 2014&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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