Boston Marathon 2025: Lynne Faught Leads the F80+ Charge into Copley Square

• Lynne Faught won the F80+ age group in 5:31:15 (12:38/mi), holding a remarkably steady line through the women's field across all six checkpoints.
• Carol Wright finished 2nd in 5:57:02 (13:37/mi), a gap of 25:47 between the two finishers.
• Faught's strongest segment came late — her 24M→40K split ranked 11,203rd among all women, a strong closing push in the final miles.
• Wright's best relative effort came on the 21M→35K segment, where her split ranked 11,771st among all women.

Two women in their eighties toed the line in Hopkinton on Patriots' Day and ran the full 26.2 miles of the 129th Boston Marathon — point-to-point, Hopkinton to Copley Square — and that fact alone deserves a moment. Lynne Faught of Ontario claimed the F80+ title in 5:31:15, running a 12:38/mi average over a course that humbles athletes decades younger. Carol Wright of Idaho backed her up in 5:57:02, a 13:37/mi effort that brought her across the finish line of one of the six World Marathon Majors.

Faught's race was defined by consistency. Tracking her gender placement through six checkpoints — 11,751st, 11,799th, 11,701st, 11,737th, 11,710th, 11,713th — she barely wavered, holding her position in a massive women's field with a steadiness that speaks to disciplined pacing. She saved something for the closing stretch, too: her 24M-to-40K split was the stronger of her noted segments, ranking 11,203rd among all women in the field.

Wright ran a different kind of race — her gender place drifted gradually from 11,911th at the first checkpoint to 12,098th at the finish, a slow fade across the miles rather than a dramatic collapse. Her best relative showing came on the 21M–35K leg, where her split ranked 11,771st among all women. The 25:47 gap to Faught was real, but finishing Boston at any age is an achievement; finishing it in your eighties is something else entirely.