BOSTON (AP) – Defending champions Catherine Ndereba and Timothy Cherigat of Kenya will return for the 2005 Boston Marathon, in which Ndereba will be going for a record fourth Boston title.

U.S. Olympian Alan Culpepper also will run in the April 18 race.

Ndereba, a silver medalist in the 2004 Olympics, won the 2004 Boston race in 2:24:27. Cherigat’s winning time in Boston was 2:10:27.

. He also took third place in last year’s New York City Marathon in 2:10:00. He finished fourth in the 2003 Boston Marathon.

Culpepper won the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials with a time of 2:11:42 and finished 12th in the 2004 Olympic Marathon in 2:15:26. He finished sixth in his 2002 marathon debut in Chicago.