NEW YORK — Abdi Nageeye of the Netherlands received the lads’s race on the New York Metropolis Marathon on Sunday and Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya took the ladies’s occasion.
Each runners pulled away from their closest opponents within the ultimate few hundred meters to come back away with their first victories within the race.
Nageeye was step-for-step with 2022 champion Evans Chebet earlier than utilizing a burst heading into Central Park to come back away with the win in 2 hours, 7 minutes, 39 seconds. Chebet completed 6 seconds behind.
Chepkirui was operating New York for the primary time and pulled away from defending champion Hellen Obiri within the girls’s race. Chepkirui began to run marathons in 2022. She completed the race in 2:24.35. Obiri completed almost 15 seconds behind.
Obiri was seeking to be the primary repeat champion since Mary Keitany of Kenya received three in a row from 2014-16. Vivian Cheruiyot of Kenya completed third, giving the African nation the highest three spots.
Tamirat Tola, the lads’s defending champion and Paris Olympic gold medalist, completed fourth, proper behind Albert Korir.
The highest People completed sixth in each races. Conner Mantz led the lads and Sara Vaughn the ladies. Vaughn was within the lead group heading into Mile 20 once they entered the Bronx earlier than she dropped off the lead pack.
Vaughn was geared as much as run Chicago earlier than COVID-19 saved her from competing in that race. She was a late addition to this marathon.
The day bought began with an upset within the males’s wheelchair race as three-time defending champion Marcel Hug was crushed by Daniel Romanchuk, who received in 2018 and 2019. Susannah Scaroni received the ladies’s wheelchair race. It was her second victory in New York, additionally taking the 2022 race and giving People winners in each occasions — the primary time that has occurred.
The 26.2-mile course took runners by all 5 boroughs of New York, beginning in Staten Island and ending in Central Park. That is the forty eighth yr the race has been in all 5 boroughs. Earlier than that, the route was fully in Central Park when it started in 1970. The primary race had solely 55 finishers whereas greater than 50,000 are anticipated to compete this yr.
The climate was excellent to run in with temperatures within the decrease 40s when the race began. Final yr, it was 61 levels when the race began.
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