Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola commemorates on the podium with the gold medal after winning the males’s elite race together with silver medalist Kenya’s Albert Korir and bronze medalist Ethiopia’s Shura Kitata.
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Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia set a course record to win the New York City Marathon males’s race on Sunday while Hellen Obiri of Kenya retreated in the last 400 meters to take the ladies’s title.
Tola completed in 2 hours, 4 minutes and 58 seconds, topping the 2: 05.06 set by Geoffrey Mutai in2011 Tola retreated from countrymate Jemal Yimer when the set were heading towards the Bronx at mile20 By the time Tola headed back into Manhattan a mile later on he was up by 19 seconds and left just chasing Mutai’s mark.
Albert Korir of Kenya, who won the 2021 NEW YORK CITY Marathon, completed 2nd almost 2 minutes behind Tola.
While the males’s race was well chosen before the last couple of miles, the ladies’s race boiled down to the stretch. Obiri, Letesenbet Gidey of Ethiopia and safeguarding champ Sharon Lokedi were all running together exchanging the lead. Obiri made a relocation as the trio headed back into Central Park for the last half-mile and completed in 2: 27.23 Gidey completed second, 6 seconds behind.
Kenya’s Hellen Obiri crosses the line to win the ladies’s elite race in the New York City Marathon onNov 5, 2023.
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Lokedi was 10 seconds behind Obiri, who won the Boston Marathon in April.
This was an outstanding ladies’s field that was anticipated to possibly remove the course record of 2: 22: 31 set by Margaret Okayo in2003 Unlike in 2015 when the weather condition was unseasonably warm with temperature levels in the 70 s, Sunday’s race was much cooler with it remaining in the 50 s– perfect conditions for record-breaking times and for the 50,000 runners.
Instead, the ladies had a tactical race with 11 runners, consisting of Americans Kellyn Taylor and Molly Huddle in the lead pack for the very first 20 miles. Taylor and Huddle both led the group at points before falling back and ending up in 8th and ninth.
Once the lead group returned into Manhattan for the last couple of miles, Obiri, Gidey and Lokedi pressed the speed.
As the trio went into Central Park they even more distanced themselves from Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei, who completed 4th.
The males’s and ladies’s winners completed within a couple of minutes of each other. About an hour previously, Marcel Hug won the males’s wheelchair race, ending up a couple of seconds except his own course record by ending up in 1: 25.29 It was the Swiss star’s record-extending 6th New York City Marathon success.
“It’s incredible. I think it takes some time to realize what happened,” Hug stated. “I’m so happy as well.”
He’s the most embellished champ in the wheelchair race at the occasion, breaking a tie with Tatyana McFadden and Kurt Fearnley for a lot of wins in the department in occasion history.
Catherine Debrunner of Switzerland won her New York launching, shattering the course record in the ladies’s wheelchair race. She completed in 1: 39.32, besting the previous mark by over 3 minutes, which was held by American Susannah Scaroni.
“It’s difficult to describe in words. I said to my coach if I win this race, it’s the best performance I ever showed,” she stated. “Knew it’s the toughest marathon of all. It was the first time. I knew it was going to be so tough.”
Debrunner and Tola both made a $50,000 benefit for topping the previous course records.
Tickets to Paris
Daniel Romanchuk and Aaron Pike gotten approved for the 2024 Paris Games by ending up as the top Americans in the males’s wheelchair race. Scaroni and McFadden certified on the ladies’s side for the Olympics.
