The winners of recent major marathons in 2025 are:

• Boston Marathon 2025 : John Korir won the men's elite race with a time of 2:04:45, the second-fastest in the event's history, while Sharon Lokedi won the women's race with a course record time of 2:17:22

• London Marathon 2025 : Sebastian Sawe won the men's race, and Tigst Assefa won the women's race, setting a women's only field world record

For historical context, Eliud Kipchoge was the Olympic marathon champion in 2016 and 2020 and held the marathon world record from 2018 to 2023