BOSTON (AP) — Geoffrey Mutai will have to be satisfied with knowing that he ran the fastest marathon in history.
But he won’t get to call it a world record.
Boston Marathon officials have decided not to ask for Mutai’s time of 2 hours, 3 minutes, 2 seconds from last week’s race to be certified as the world record by the IAAF.
The international governing body has said that the Boston course is ineligible for the record because it is too straight and too downhill. Boston Athletic Association executive director Tom Grilk had said he would apply anyway. But after meeting with the IAAF, race officials have decided not to challenge the rules.
That leaves the record in the hands of Haile Gebrselassie, who finished the 2008 Berlin Marathon in 2:03:59.
