Boston Marathon Live Tracker: Wheelchair winners crowned

The 2026 Boston Marathon is here.

This year, the race will have 30,000 runners begin their journey from Hopkinton, up Heartbreak Hill and to the finish line on Boylston Street.

Wheelchair athletes will get things started at 9:06 a.m. followed by handcycles and duos, professionals, and para-athletes.

The first wave of open division runners begins at 10 a.m. and runs through 11:21 a.m.

Here are the full start times for each group:

Mass. native Sunita Williams, who unexpectedly spent nearly 10 months in space and returned home in March 2025, will run the Boston Marathon as the 2026 Patriots’ Award winner.

Longtime Bruins captain Zdeno Chara is expected to run his third Boston Marathon in four years. Chara withdrew from last year’s race due to injury.

MassLive will be tracking the Boston Marathon runners from the first start time and throughout the day. Keep it here to learn when Williams and Chara finish, as well as the winners from each wave.

LIVE UPDATES

11:24 a.m. — Some local runners are having a strong Boston Marathon. Newton’s Robert Miranda is running a 5:03 mile, while Cambridge’s Barry Keane is running a 5:07 mile.

11:23 a.m. — Zdeno Chara has completed 11.1 miles.

11:21 a.m. — Wave 6 — the final one of the morning — has begun!

11:21 a.m. — Reining Boston Marathon winner John Korir has a healthy lead in the men’s professional wave. He finished last year’s race in 2:04:45.

11:20 a.m. — The women’s professional runners have nine miles left.

11:16 a.m. — USA’s Annie Frisbie now leads the women 90 minutes into their heat. Kodi Kleven is close behind, as is Kenya’s Mary Ngugi-Cooper.

11:10 a.m. — Ninety minutes of running and Milkesa Mengesha continues to pace the men’s professional runners. He’s 20 miles in with 6.2 to go.

11:01 a.m. — Wave 5 is off!

10:56 a.m. — Over an hour into the men’s professional race, Milkesa Mengesha from Ethiopia has a nice lead as he passes Woodland Gold Club in Newton.

10:55 a.m. — The women are heading into Mile 12 and are approaching the halfway mark.

10:52 a.m. — Just over an hour into the women’s professional wave and Kodi Kleven remains at the front. Dakotah Popehn and Sara Hall are close behind.

10:41 a.m. — Wave 4 has started!

10:40 a.m. — WOMEN’S WHEELCHAIR WINNER! Eden Rainbow-Cooper is the women’s wheelchair winner with a time of 1:30:51.

Rainbow-Cooper won the event in 2024.

10:28 a.m. — Wave 3 is off and running.

10:22 a.m. — MEN’S WHEELCHAIR WINNER! Marcel Hug was all alone as he crossed the finish line at 1:16:06. He was about six minutes ahead of the rest of the racers.

It’s the ninth time he’s won the Boston Marathon men’s wheelchair race, his fourth in a row.

10:17 a.m. — Kodi Kleven is pacing the professional women 30 minutes in. USA’s Susanna Sullivan and Sara Hall are right behind her.

10:15 a.m. — Marcel Hug is 23 miles in and on pace to shatter his course record of 1:15:33 that he set in 2024.

10:15 a.m. — Wave 2 has started.

10:07 a.m. — Thirty minutes into the men’s professional wave and Germany’s Hendrik Pfeiffer is pacing the field.

USA’s Alex Maier and Ryan Ford are also among the leaders.

10 a.m. — Wave 1 has begun.

9:59 a.m. — Marcel Hug, known as “The Silver Bullet,” is pacing the men’s wheelchair division. He has less than 10 miles left.

Hug won last year’s event.

9:50 a.m. — The para athletes have taken the course!

9:47 a.m. — Now the professional women have taken the course and begun the 26.2 mile trek to Boylston Street.

Sharon Lokedi is the defending champion and is running again this year.

9:37 a.m. — The professional men are off and running.

Last year’s winner, John Korir, is in this group. He finished the 2025 Boston Marathon in 2:04:45.

Longtime Bruins captain Zdeno Chara is an honorary starter in this group. He is running his third Boston Marathon in four years.

9:30 a.m. — The handcycles and duos have started their trek to Boston.

9:09 a.m. — The women’s professional wheelchair marathoners just began. A new champion will be crowned in this heat.

Last year’s winner, United States’ Susannah Scaroni, is pregnant and expecting a baby in September.

9:06 a.m. — And we’re off! The men’s professional wheelchair marathoners kick off the 2026 Boston Marathon.

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