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NEW YORK — Abdi Nageeye of the Netherlands gained the boys’s race on the New York City Marathon on Sunday and Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya took the ladies’s occasion.
Both runners pulled away from their closest rivals within the last 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.
“At the end I used to be like, am I’m dreaming? I gained New York,” Nageeye stated.
He had run the New York race 3 times earlier than together with his finest end coming in 2022, when he was third.
“I do know the course,” Nageeye stated. “Today 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 also you’re going to win.”
Chepkirui was operating New York for the primary time and pulled away from defending champion Hellen Obiri within the girls’s race. Chepkirui, who began to run marathons in 2022, gained in 2:24.35. Obiri completed practically 15 seconds behind.
“It means my coaching has been good,” Chepkirui stated. “I’m so completely satisfied.”
Obiri was trying to be the primary repeat champion since Mary Keitany of Kenya gained three in a row from 2014-16. Vivian Cheruiyot of Kenya completed third, giving the African nation the highest three spots.
Tamirat Tola, the boys’s defending champion and Paris Olympic gold medalist, completed fourth, proper behind Albert Korir.
The prime Americans completed sixth in each races. Conner Mantz led the boys and Sara Vaughn the ladies. Vaughn was within the lead group heading into Mile 20 after 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 received began with an upset within the males’s wheelchair race as three-time defending champion Marcel Hug was overwhelmed by Daniel Romanchuk, who additionally gained in 2018 and 2019. Susannah Scaroni gained the ladies’s wheelchair race. It was her second victory in New York, additionally taking the 2022 race and giving Americans winners in each occasions — the primary time that has occurred.
The 26.2-mile (42.2-kilometer) course took runners by all 5 boroughs of New York, beginning in Staten Island and ending in Central Park. This is the forty eighth 12 months the race has been in all 5 boroughs. Before that, the route was fully in Central Park when it started in 1970. The first race had solely 55 finishers whereas greater than 50,000 are anticipated to compete this 12 months.
The climate was excellent to run in with temperatures within the decrease 40s when the race began. Last 12 months, it was 61 levels when the race began.
