Canada’s DuChene third in Boston Marathon

NEW YORK — Mother Nature offered Canadian Krista DuChene a competitive advantage Monday at the 2018 Boston Marathon. The 41-year-old from Strathroy, Ont., battled a steady headwind exceeding 40 kilometres an hour and icy rain to finish third in the women’s race. The mother of three, running in Boston after a 13-year absence, finished the 26.2-mile (42.2 kilometre) race in two hours, 44 minutes and 20 seconds. American Desiree Linden won the event in 2:39:54, but DuChene said the miserable weather conditions played in her favour. “Definitely, there’s no way I can beat so many of those women in the elite field on a good day,” DuChene said in a telephone interview from Boston. “It was miserable. Windy, cold, I think there was hail at the start, rain.”