page_title: 2015 Boston Marathon
section_title: Women
hierarchical_section_title: 2015 Boston Marathon / Race / Women
caption_attribution_description: English: A group of nine women lead the race at Beaumont Avenue, Newton (mile 19), during the w:2015 Boston Marathon. Eventual winner w:Caroline Rotich is on the left. w:Bizunesh Deba leads followed by w:Mare Dibaba.
context_page_description: The 2015 Boston Marathon was the 119th running of the Boston Athletic Association's mass-participation marathon. It took place on Monday, April 20. The men's race was won by Lelisa Desisa from Ethiopia in a time of 2:09:17. Caroline Rotich of Kenya won the women's race with a time 2:24:55.
context_section_description: In the women's race, a lead group of nine was thinned to three as Ethiopia's Bizunesh Deba picked up the pace with a 5:08 24th mile. For a while, Deba and fellow Ethiopian Mare Dibaba worked together to hold back Caroline Rotich of Kenya. However, Deba tightened up entering Boylston Street and fell off the pace. Rotich and Dibaba raced the final quarter mile side by side.
  Dibaba briefly took the lead, but Rotich out kicked her in the final 100 yards for a 4-second victory, finishing with a time of 2:24:55. Deba placed third, ten seconds behind Dibaba, following up her second-place finish in 2014. Desiree Linden of the United States placed fourth, thirty seconds back of Deba, after leading for much of the race. Rotich did not lead at a single checkpoint during the race. Rotich's win was her first Boston Marathon title, and the fifth straight win for Kenya in the women's race.
caption: Lead group of nine women at mile 19, with Caroline Rotich on left
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