NEW YORK — The New York Town Marathon made historical past on Sunday with a route report set within the ladies’s festival and the nearest race ever at the males’s facet, which was once made up our minds by means of a fragment of a moment.
Hellen Obiri of Kenya broke the ladies’s report whilst compatriot Benson Kipruto received the boys’s race by means of edging Alexander Mutiso by means of three-hundredths of a moment.
Obiri, who additionally received the race in 2023, completed in 2 hours, 19 mins and 51 seconds. She was once working with 2022 winner Sharon Lokedi till Obiri pulled clear of her countrymate within the ultimate mile, surging forward and profitable simply by means of 16 seconds to highest the former route report of two:22.31 set by means of Margaret Okayo in 2003.
“It feels so nice. … I’m so satisfied to run the route report,” Obiri stated. “With 1K to move I felt like I used to be so robust. I’ve one thing left in my tank.”
Protecting champion Sheila Chepkirui completed 3rd. All 3 beat the former route highest on a gorgeous day for working, with temperatures within the 50s Fahrenheit when the race began.
Kipruto and Mutiso separated themselves from the chase pack within the males’s race heading into Mile 24. Kipruto perceived to have put the race away, pulling clear of Mutiso within the remaining 200 meters. However Mutiso, who could also be from Kenya, wasn’t executed, surging within the remaining 50 meters prior to falling simply quick. Kipruto, who was once working the New York race for the primary time, completed in 2:08.40. That end crowned the 2005 race, which was once made up our minds by means of a moment.
“I used to be mindful that Mutiso was once at the back of,” stated Kipruto, who additionally has received the Boston, Chicago and Tokyo marathons. “It was once so shut and I knew as a result of I do know Mutiso is a sturdy man.”
Albert Korir, who received in 2021, was once 3rd, giving Kenya a sweep of the highest 3 spots in each the boys’s and ladies’s races. Joel Reichow was once the highest American, coming in 6th.
Eliud Kipchoge, who turns 41 subsequent week, wrapped up a ancient run as one of the completed marathoners within the recreation. Kipchoge, who has received 11 primary international marathons, completed seventeenth in his first time working NYC.
At the ladies’s facet, the trio of former champions separated themselves heading into the Bronx at Mile 20. American Fiona O’Keeffe and Dutch runner Sifan Hassan had made it a pack of 5 as soon as the gang entered Long island a couple of miles previous however couldn’t hold on for the overall 6 miles.
This was once the primary time that the former 3 ladies’s winners were in the similar race since 2018. The trio didn’t disappoint, placing forth stellar efforts. It was once the second one directly 12 months that Kenyans took the highest 3 spots.
O’Keeffe completed fourth, breaking the American route report as she completed in 2:22.49.
“In point of fact thrilling. I will’t take an excessive amount of credit score for the time, that was once all at the ladies forward of me,” O’Keeffe stated. “Thankful to be again within the marathon. Seems like coming house.”
Fellow American Annie Frisbie completed 5th as 4 of the highest 9 finishers had been from the U.S. Hassan, who received the Sydney Marathon two months in the past, was once 6th.
The 26.2-mile route took runners thru all 5 boroughs of New York, beginning in Staten Island and finishing in Long island’s Central Park. That is the forty ninth 12 months the race has been in all 5 boroughs. Sooner than that, the course was once totally in Central Park. The primary race had simplest 55 finishers, whilst a report 55,642 other people completed remaining 12 months, the most important within the historical past of the game till the London Marathon broke it previous this 12 months.
Wheelchair luck
Marcel Hug and Susannah Scaroni each received the wheelchair races in dominant style. Hug, referred to as the Silver Bullet, has now received this marathon seven instances. He completed 3:52 forward of second-place finisher David Weir. Scaroni defended her identify and was once victorious for the 3rd time in 4 years. She crossed the end line 5:43 forward of second-place finisher Tatyana McFadden, who received the race 5 instances.
