Lidia Grigoryeva won the Boston marathon

On Monday, a 33-year-old athlete from Chuvashia won a traditional marathon race among women Boston Marathon and became the first Russian to win in Boston over the past 14 years. For the past eight years, these competitions have invariably won Kenya natives.

Grigoriev, a year ago, set a record on the Marathon highway in Los Angeles, this time showed the result of 2 hours 29 minutes 18 seconds. She finished with the Russian flag in her hands, ahead of the closest of the rivals Elena Prokopchuk from Latvia by 40 seconds. Madai Perez from Mexico went bronze.

The winner of men's competitions in Boston was Kenyz Robert Cheruyot, who finished with a result of 2 hours 14 minutes 13 seconds.

The organizers of the marathon embarrassed at the award ceremony

The Boston marathon ranks third among the five most prestigious in the world. Despite this, his organization is not at the highest level, ITAR-TASS notes. At the awarding ceremony of the winner of the female, a phonogram of not a modern anthem of Russia sounded, but the old - to the music of Glinka. At the headquarters of the organizers of the competitions, they could not give this a clear explanation. As it turned out later, none of the organizers of the sporting event even suspected that the phonogram of the state anthem of the Russian Federation, which has not been used in such quality since 2000, plays.

The official representative of the Boston Athletic Association Jack Fleming in this regard was able to say only the following: "This is our oversight. We apologize."

One of the representatives of the Russian press, present at the event, noticed on this occasion that "the Americans do not know the rest of the world at all." “During the visits of the heads of states, they perform the right anthem,” he noted, “and in the event of athletes victory, another,” he said.

If you look into the past of the Boston marathon, it turns out that the story is repeated. A similar "failure" occurred in 2003. Then Svetlana Zakharova became the first Russian woman since 1993 to receive “gold” at this athletic competition. The organizers at that time also put a melody based on the Glinka work.