Here’s how Zdeno Chara, Des Linden, and more big names did in the Boston Marathon

Here are some of the well-known participants in the 2024 Boston Marathon and how they did.

An esteemed figure in Boston sports history, Zdeno Chara, former captain and defenseman for the Bruins, ran the Boston Marathon for the first time last year.

The race — which he ran for the Thomas E. Smith Foundation and The Hoyt Foundation — marked the 6-foot-9-inch Slovakian’s first marathon.

Since then, the future NHL Hall of Famer has completed a handful of marathons — and he added another to his belt when he crossed the finish line in Boston on Monday. Chara, 47, again ran for The Hoyt Foundation, which he said “aspires to enhance the lives of young people with disabilities.”

Kiefer is a German tennis star who reached a career-high rank of No. 4 on the professional tour during his career and won a silver medal in doubles at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

After he finished the 128th Boston Marathon, Kiefer joined the ranks of Six Star Finishers, runners who complete all six major marathons in the World Marathon Majors. Prior to completing Boston, Kiefer ran Berlin, London, New York, Tokyo, and Chicago.

After the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing killed his younger brother, Martin, and seriously injured his mother, Denise, and sister, Jane, Henry Richard returned almost every year to Boylston to watch the race.

He made his running debut in 2022, participating on behalf of Team MR8, a group representing the Martin Richard Foundation. In an emotional moment for the family, Henry ran the race again with three childhood friends of his brother last year — a decade after the bombing — in Martin’s memory.

Henry ran the Boston Marathon for a third time to raise money for the Martin Richard Foundation.

Wilpers, one of the most popular instructors on the Peloton platform, announced that he was running the race during a class in February. A former collegiate distance runner at Georgia State, Wilpers had participated in marathons before — but never the Boston Marathon (an injury sidelined him in 2007, and then the pandemic led to the cancellation of the next one he qualified for).

“This is a race that has been on my list for a long time. Right when I started racing marathons, my eye was on Boston immediately. And I was like, one day, one day, you gotta hit that race,” he recently told Boston.com.

On Monday, Wilpers crossed the “bucket-list race” off his list.

Sager, a Boston-based musician, plays the harmonica with Sting. He ran the Marathon in support of the Mass General Marathon Team raising money for pediatric cancer research. Leading up to the race, he chronicled his training runs, including along the Charles River Esplanade.

A decade after winning the Boston Marathon in 2014, Keflezighi again took on the prestigious road race.

In an emotionally charged race a year after the bombing, Keflezighi became the first American man to win since 1983.

Keflezighi, who has also won the New York City Marathon and is an Olympic silver medalist, announced in February he was running to celebrate his victory and “to illuminate the way for the MEB Foundation,” which aims to promote “youth health, education, and fitness” nationally and abroad, according to its website.

Linden is no stranger to the Boston Marathon.

Last year marked her 10th time running the race. In 2018, on one of the coldest and most rain-soaked race days in recent memory, Linden became the first American woman to win Boston in more than 30 years.

The two-time Olympian returned to Boston again this year.

In a stunning feat, Chebet won the Boston Marathon for the second time last spring after coming in first the year before. The runner from Kenya also won the New York City Marathon in 2022, making him only the eighth man to win both in the same year, according to New York Road Runners.

He recently said that “Boston has become like a second home” to him.

The two-time defending Boston Marathon champion headlined the men’s field this year, seeking to become only the fifth man to win the race three successive times.

Chebet came close but finished third.

A Manchester-by-the-Sea native and Boston College law student, Davis has graced television screens nationwide for several weeks as a contestant on season 46 of “Survivor,” the long-running reality competition show on CBS.

Davis, who was captain of the cross-country team at Harvard, ran the Boston Marathon for the first time.

He told the Globe in February that participating in the celebrated race is fulfilling a “lifelong dream.” Davis ran Casa Myrna, a nonprofit dedicated to ending domestic and dating violence.

During his senior year at Wesleyan in 1968, Burfoot won the Boston Marathon. In a post on Medium last year, Burfoot said that he “wanted to win Boston more than you can imagine” and that he “trained insanely hard” that year in his effort to do so, logging “well over 100 miles” during a typical week of training.

More than a half-century later, Burfoot, who writes and edits for various running publications, has competed in the fabled road race more than a dozen times. He ran it again this year.

“These days, 55 years later, I’m still running Boston. Mainly to give thanks. So many thanks. It doesn’t matter how slowly I cover the course, or where I finish. The miracle is that I can still run 26.2 miles on foot from rural Hopkinton to downtown Boston’s Copley Square,” he wrote last April.

For several decades, Dick and Rick Hoyt were a staple of the Boston Marathon. Between 1980 and 2014, Team Hoyt — the father-son duo — completed 32 of the prestigious races together, with Dick pushing Rick in his wheelchair through the 26.2-mile course and across the finish line. Together, the two became running legends. Rick, a quadriplegic who had cerebral palsy, died last May, two years after his father.

In the wake of their absence, the Hoyt family has remained dedicated to upholding their legacy. Last year, three of Dick’s grandsons — Troy, Cameron, and Ryan — ran for Team Hoyt. The Hoyt Foundation was formed with the goal of building “the individual character, self-confidence, and self-esteem of America’s young people with disabilities through inclusion in all facets of daily life,” according to its website.

Along with Chara, Troy again ran with Team Hoyt this year. He called this race “extra special to our family as it is the 10-year anniversary of the last time my grandfather and uncle ran Boston together.”

Wooten, a meteorologist for NBC10 Boston and NECN, ran Boston — his first marathon — to raise money for Boston Medical Center. Wooten documented his training leading up to the race, providing updates on his progress and highlighting fellow charity runners on Team BMC.

A general assignment reporter for WCVB, ran the Boston Marathon for the first time in support of The Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, “an organization that provides a safe and supportive environment for young people to learn and grow,” she said on a fund-raiser website.

While running the Boston Marathon in 2013 in support of a friend dealing with cancer, Fortier was injured by the first bomb. He suffered shrapnel wounds and hearing loss. After the attack, Fortier and other survivors were deeply moved by the support offered to them by the Semper Fi Fund, a group of veterans injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. That support and his “passion for helping other survivors of terror and trauma,” led Fortier to found the One World Strong Foundation, where he now serves as president, according to his bio.

The 2013 race marked his first marathon, and the Newburyport resident has since run more than a dozen, including the Boston Marathon. He took on the road race again this year.

Robinson is a stand-up comedian, actress, writer, and producer. She is the co-star and co-creator of the podcast “2 Dope Queens,” which became an HBO series.

Robinson ran to raise money for (RED) in its fight against AIDS.

Tanaka co-anchors the evening newscast on WBZ-TV. He ran the Boston Marathon as a member of Team Hoyt.

On a fund-raising page, Tanaka said he grew up in New England and watched the race every year. “And every year, we’d see Dick and Rick Hoyt bravely competing, simultaneously telling the world ‘yes, you can!’ to any challenge, goal or dream,” he said. “Sometimes your reality is bigger than your dreams.”

A Cambridge native, Dooley is a chef behind Mooncusser and Moon Bar in the Back Bay. The James Beard Award nominee ran for the second time to raise funds for “Dream Big!” The charity aims to help “children achieve their full potential through education and empowerment,” he said.

After he crossed the finish line, Dooley planned to keep running to Moon Bar and get cooking.

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