Bong-Ju Lee
Home: Seoul, Korea
Age: 30
Personal best: 2:07:20 (Tokyo, 2000)

This is his second Boston run. He was 11th in a fast field in 1994, when the first 11 finished under 2:10. He was the runner-up for the gold in Atlanta in 1996, when he lost by three seconds, the closest finish in Olympic history. He was named the No. 1 marathoner in the world in 1996 by Track and Field News.