The Boston marathon 2024 qualifying times are known!
For the 128th marathon the qualifying times are 5 minutes, 29 seconds (5:29) or faster than the official qualifying times defined for age groups and gender!
Some further facts and figures:
- 33,058 applications were received during the registration period for qualifiers.
- 22,019 qualified applicants have been accepted to date or are in the process of being accepted, pending verification of their qualifying performance.
- 11,039 qualifier applicants were unable to be accepted into the 128th Boston Marathon.
- This year’s ‘Cut-Off’ time needed to gain acceptance into the Boston Marathon was 5 minutes, 29 seconds or faster (5:29) than the qualifying time for each respective age group and gender.
- This year’s qualified field includes 12,535 men, 9,440 women, and 44 non-binary athletes to date.
- 660 qualifiers were accepted based on finishing 10 or more consecutive Boston Marathons.
- Citizens of 127 countries applied for entry into the 128th Boston Marathon.
- Approximately 11,391 athletes will be racing their first Boston Marathon.
- The youngest and oldest accepted athletes are 18 and 82 years old, respectively.
During the registration period, the breakdown of accepted Qualifiers was as follows:
- 6,182 Qualifiers met their qualifying time by 20 minutes, 00 seconds or more.
- 8,858 Qualifiers met their qualifying time by between 10 minutes, 00 seconds and 19 minutes, 59 seconds.
- 6,979 Qualifiers met their qualifying time by between 05 minutes, 29 seconds and 9 minutes, 59 seconds.
If you applied and got in, congrats!
For all those that applied and didn’t got in, don’t lose hope, maybe next one will be your turn!
And for all people that don’t have a BQ qualifying time to begin with (me included), keep working hard and be patient… It’s not impossible but you perhaps need to put in some additional efforts 💪
One day Boston, one day in the future we’ll meet…
Let me know down in the comments if you applied and got in or rejected…
