As elections take place peacefully, one winner is Wesley Korir, as Boston Marathon winner also wins election in Kenya

Boston Marathon: Defending champ now holds seat in Kenya’s parliament

The Christian Science Monitor

Runners start the 115th running of the Boston Marathon, in Hopkinton, Mass., April 2011. Last year’s winner Wesley Korir returns to defend his title in today’s running of the 117th.(Stew Milne/AP) The defending champion in today’s Boston Marathon has an extra spring. | Democracy, elections and voting