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10th. Course records. 2:10:09 (1976 men) 2:27:33 (1979 women) ← 1978. 1980 →. The 1979 New York City Marathon was the 10th edition of the New York City Marathon and took place in New York City on 21 October. [ 1]
Men's open division. Bill Rodgers won the race four times. Rodgers Rop won the 2002 New York City Marathon. Marílson Gomes dos Santos, who won the 2006 and 2008 New York City Marathons, is the first and only Brazilian to win the race. Geoffrey Mutai won the 2011 and 2013 New York City Marathons, and held the course record for twelve years.
The New York City Marathon, currently branded as the TCS New York City Marathon for sponsorship reasons, is an annual marathon (42.195 km or 26.219 mi) that courses through the five boroughs of New York City. It is the largest marathon in the world, [3] [4] with 53,627 finishers in 2019 [5] and 98,247 applicants for the 2017 race. [3]
Kirk Pfeffer (born July 30, 1956 in California [ 1]) is a retired American long-distance runner, who competed in marathons. He won the Enschede Marathon in 1979 in 2:11:50 and America's Finest City Half Marathon in 1981 in 1:02:55. On December 7, 1979 he set a new world record in the half marathon at 1:02:32 in Las Vegas. [ 2]
Aurèle Vandendriessche won back-to-back marathons in 1963 and 1964. Ron Hill set a course record at the 1970 Boston Marathon. Bill Rodgers won the race four times between 1975 and 1980. Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot won the race four times, and set two course records. Geoffrey Mutai holds the current course record, 2:03:02, set in 2011.
In 1979, she qualified for the New York City Marathon and was credited with a time of 2:56:29, the 11th woman overall — enough for her to qualify for the Boston Marathon. [ 4 ] Ruiz's application for the NYC marathon arrived after the cut-off date for the race, but she received special dispensation from the New York Road Runners due to her ...
Joan Benoit. Scott Samuelson (m. September 29, 1984) [ 1] Joan Benoit Samuelson (born May 16, 1957) is an American marathon runner who was the first women's Olympic Games marathon champion, winning the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. [ 2] She held the fastest time for an American woman at the Chicago Marathon for 32 years ...
The 1997 New York City Marathon was the 28th running of the annual marathon race in New York City, United States, which took place on Sunday, November 2.The men's elite race was won by Kenya's John Kagwe in a time of 2:08:12 hours while the women's race was won by Switzerland's Franziska Rochat-Moser in 2:28:43.