Meb Keflezighi will return for the 2017 Boston Marathon
The defending men's and women's champions from 2016 will also be back.
After taking a year off to focus on the Rio Olympics, a Boston Marathon hero will make his return to the race in 2017.
Meb Keflezighi, 41, will be back to race in Boston, according to a Wednesday announcement. In 2014, Keflezighi became the first U.S. male runner to win the event since 1983. In 2016, he finished 33rd in the marathon at the Rio Summer Olympics.
Other elite runners were also confirmed to be planning a return to Boston. Ethiopian runners Atsede Baysa and Lemi Berhanu Hayle, who won in 2016, will be back to defend their respective titles.
Ethiopia’s Buzunesh Deba (2014 women’s champion), Kenya’s Wesley Korir (2012 men’s champion) and Kenya’s Caroline Rotich (2015 women’s champion) will also be in the field of runners.
A complete international field will be announced in January.
The race will take place on April 17, 2017.
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