NEW YORK (WABC) — On a crisp, stunning Sunday morning, greater than 50,000 runners from over 150 international locations turned out for the TCS New York Metropolis marathon.
Abdi Nageeye of the Netherlands, silver medalist on the Tokyo Olympics, received the lads’s skilled race pulling away within the last mile. His time was 2:07:39.
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. Chebet completed 6 seconds behind.
“On the end I used to be like, am I am dreaming? I received New York,” Nageeye stated.
He had run the New York race 3 times earlier than together with his greatest end coming in 2022, when he was third.
“I do know the course,” Nageeye stated. “At present was two issues: survive that race and my race is after 36 (kilometers; 22 miles). I used to be pondering like a bicycle owner, survive 36K and you are going to win.”
Tamirat Tola, the lads’s defending champion and Paris Olympic gold medalist, completed fourth, proper behind Albert Korir.
Abdi Nageeye of the Netherlands wins the lads’s skilled race on the 2024 TCS NYC Marathon.
High 5 finishers:
1. Abdi Nageeye
2. Evans Chebet
3. Albert Korir
4. Tamirat Tola
5. Geoffrey Kamworor
Skilled Girls’s Race
Sheila Chepkirui received the skilled ladies’s race in a time of two:24:35, ending 15 seconds forward of defending champ Hellen Obiri.
“It means my coaching has been good,” Chepkirui siad. “I am so blissful.”
It was Chepkirui’s first time working the New York race after beginning to run marathons in 2022. She completed the race in 2 hours, 24 minutes, 35 seconds. Obiri completed almost 15 seconds behind.
Kenya’s Sheila Chepkirui wins the skilled ladies’s race on the 2024 TCS NYC Marathon.
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.
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 stored her from competing in that race. She was a late addition to this marathon.
High 5 finishers:
1. Sheila Chepkirui
2. Hellen Obiri
3. Vivian Cheruiyot
4. Eunice Chumba
5. Fabienne Schlumpf
Males’s Wheelchair Race
Daniel Romanchuk of the U.S. received the lads’s wheelchair race, ending forward of David Weir and Tomoki Suzuki.
Romanchuk completed in a time of 1:36:31.
Marcel Hug of Switzerland was making an attempt to win the race for the 4 consecutive yr and seventh time general.
Hug had battled a chilly earlier than the race and fell behind within the second half.
The Swiss star, nicknamed the Silver Bullet, had received 16 straight marathons, together with a gold medal at this yr’s Paris Paralympics. He additionally received the Chicago Marathon just a few weeks in the past.
Daniel Romanchuk of the U.S. wins the lads’s wheelchair race on the TCS NYC Marathon.
The 38-year-old Hug was within the lead pack Sunday heading into Manhattan earlier than falling off the tempo. Romanchuk stated a pothole on First Ave. brought about some points for a few of the rivals.
It then turned a three-man race between Romanchuk, David Weir and Tomoki Suzuki. The trio got here into the final mile inside a second of one another earlier than Romanchuk, who additionally received this race in 2018 and 2019, pulled away to win in 1 hour, 36 minutes, 31 seconds.
“I do know many of the different racers fairly effectively, actually simply attempt to utterly empty the tank for the ultimate mile,” Romanchuk stated. “It is superb.”
Weir, who was runner up in 2021 in addition to successful the title in 2010, completed 5 seconds behind. Suzuki was third at 1:36.43.
Hug completed fourth, 3:38 behind the winner.
Girls’s Wheelchair Race
Susannah Scaroni of the U.S., who received the race in 2022, opened an enormous lead within the opening miles and by no means regarded again.
Her last time was 1:48:05, which was minutes forward of her nearest competitor.
Scaroni beat one other American, Tatyana McFadden, successful the race by greater than 10 minutes in 1:48.05.
“At all times so particular to be right here in New York Metropolis,” Scaroni stated. “I wakened feeling nice in the present day, by no means take it with no consideration. Arising the final hill we had a tailwind in the present day. So I had somewhat extra vitality then I usually do at that hill.”
Scaroni set a course report when she received in 2022 and completed third a yr in the past.
It is the primary time within the historical past of the race that each the lads’s and girls’s wheelchair occasions have been received by People.
Susannah Scaroni of the U.S. wins the ladies’s wheelchair race on the TCS NYC Marathon.
The NYC marathon has been held since 1970 and had greater than 50,000 runners end the race final yr. The race is organized by the nonprofit New York Highway Runners. Runners can get into the marathon a wide range of methods, together with a qualifying time, a lottery or charitable contributions.
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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The 26.2-mile (42.2-kilometer) course takes 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 utterly in Central Park when it started in 1970. The primary race had solely 55 finishers whereas greater than 50,000 have been anticipated to compete this yr.
You’ll find a mile-by-mile tour of the course right here.
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