Meet the celebrities who ran the 2025 Boston Marathon

Amongst the tens of thousands of runners at the 129th Boston Marathon, Celtics broadcaster Drew Carter challenged and conquered his first ever 26.2-mile race with the help of his family, trainers, and Brian Scalabrine’s radio show.

“I feel really satisfied, really proud, really grateful, emotional, like I’m gonna cry, which is weird,” Carter said. “But mostly I feel really gassed.”

The Celtics play-by-play voice had no idea how the race would go for him. He admits the decision to make Boston his first marathon was probably stupid, but in the end, all of his training paid off.

“It was hard to train on the road,” said Carter. “I’ve got a pretty busy schedule, obviously. But without the training, you obviously can’t do it.”

Running in partnership with the Shamrock Foundation, the 27-year-old Carter — who finished in three hours, 48 minutes, and 2 seconds — raised more than $10,000. He says he is incredibly proud and lucky to have run for the foundation in support of the team. Read more here.

As was rumored before race day, former Bruins captain and future NHL Hall of Famer Zdeno Chara didn’t race on Monday.

The Boston sports icon raced the Boston Marathon for the first time in 2023 then again in 2024.

He turned in a time of 3:30:53 in Boston a year ago, then flew to London and finished in 3:11:04 six days later.

Former WBZ reporter and Olympic figure skater Alice Cook set out from Hopkinton Monday morning with a lofty goal: complete her second Boston Marathon — and third overall — since being diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in December 2023.

But at Mile 5, Cook’s knee buckled, and she began to become dehydrated. She was taken to a hospital in Framingham, where they gave her fluids.

She returned to the end of course a few hours later and began her run again just a few blocks from the finish line, which she crossed with her hands up in the air in triumph.

“It’s a win,” said Mary O’Connor, a friend speaking for Cook, who lost her voice to the disease. “To go five miles, it’s a win for ALS and for Alice. We don’t care if she didn’t do 26 miles. The mere fact that she has hope — and look at her! — it’s giving her life.”

After completing the Marathon, the first thing on Matt James’s mind was cookies.

“I can smell Levain on Newbury Street, so I just want a cookie,” said James, who starred in a season of the ABC reality show “The Bachelor.”

His favorite cookie at Levain is the coconut chocolate chip cookie. James also had “five or six” beers on the course, starting at mile No. 6.

“When you have a little buzz, it’s easier to get up the hill,” he said. “It was a fun day. And that’s what I was out there to have, a fun day.”

James plans on running the Boston Marathon again next year.

Hailing from Worcester, Scott Stallings has three career wins on the PGA Tour.

He added the Boston Marathon to his resume on Monday, finishing in 4:10:19 on the same day that he reached another milestone.

“Seems like the perfect way to celebrate my 40th birthday and raise some money for a great cause in the process,” Stallings wrote in a post for his marathon fundraiser, which raised $20,715 for Golf Fights Cancer.

For four-time British Olympian Paula Radcliffe, Boston was her last stop.

At 51, Radcliffe has secured the Six Star Medal, completing all six world marathon majors: Tokyo, London, Berlin, Chicago, New York City, and finally, Boston.

A three-time winner of the London and New York City Marathons, Radcliffe finished the race in 2 hours, 53 minutes, and 44 seconds, placing her 158th out of 12,441 women. She also held the women’s marathon world record for 16 years from 2003 to 2019 with a time of 2:15:25. On Monday, she wore bib No. 215, honoring her record.

The last time Radcliffe raced in Boston was 33 years ago when she took the junior title at the 1992 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.

“To finish here, it’s got a nice symmetry to it,” Radcliffe said. Read more here.

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 has now run every Boston Marathon since 2022, participating on behalf of Team MR8, a group representing the Martin Richard Foundation.

Richard finished in 5:43:37 on Monday. He raised $3,300 for the Dave McGillivray Finish Strong Foundation, which raises funds to empower young athletes facing adversity.

Henry Richard ran the 2024 Boston Marathon with three friends in support of Team MR8.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

Shane Sager, a Boston-based musician, plays the harmonica with Sting. He ran last year’s Marathon in support of the Mass General Marathon Team raising money for pediatric cancer research and finished in 4:08:08.

This year, Sager raised $18,129 for Mass General and finished with a time of 4:35:14.

Dick and Rick Hoyt were staples of the Boston Marathon for decades, as the father-son duo completed 32 races together, which Dick pushing his son, Rick, in a wheelchair along the course.

Rick, a quadriplegic who had cerebral palsy, died last May, two years after his father.

Troy Hoyt, one of Dick’s grandsons, has run the past two Marathons in Dick and Rick’s honor. He raised money along the way for Team Hoyt, part of the Hoyt Foundation, which 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.

This year, the Hoyt Foundation had 25 runners and raised over $252,000, according to Russ Hoyt. Troy Hoyt finished Monday’s marathon in 4:28:50.

While running the Boston Marathon in 2013 in support of a friend, Fortier was injured by the first bomb. He suffered shrapnel wounds and hearing loss.

After the attack, Fortier and other survivors were moved by the support offered to them by the Semper Fi Fund, a group of veterans injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. That support led Fortier to found the One World Strong Foundation, where he now serves as president.

He has run more than dozen marathons since that first race in 2013, including Boston the last two years. He finished Monday with a time of 4:12:15.

Dave Fortier pauses to kneel at the site of the Marathon bombing before crossing the finish line of the 125th Boston Marathon.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

Representing Team USA, Brian Diemer won bronze in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. He was also the 1983 NCAA steeplechase champion for the University of Michigan.

He ran with his daughter, McKenzie Pluymert, and finished with a time of 3:56:45.

Amin Touri, Aiden Barker, and Cam Kerry contributed reporting to this story.

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