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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 2018 New York City Marathon was run on Sunday, November 4. Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia won his first New York City Marathon after finishing third in 2017, third in 2015 and second in 2014, followed by Shura Kitata and defending champion Geoffrey Kamworor. Their times of 2:05:59, 2:06:01 and 2:06:26 were the second, third and fourth fastest ...
Molly Seidel finished fourth overall; her time of 2:24:42 was the fastest ever by an American woman at the New York City Marathon, beating Kara Goucher's time in the 2008 race by over a minute. Shalane Flanagan finished her sixth World Marathon Major of the year (including the virtual Tokyo Marathon ), [37] each one in a time of under three hours.
Coming into the marathon, Mary Keitany was the favorite having won the NYC Marathon three times in the past averaging 2:24 to 2:25, and having a personal record setting 2017 year in the 10k road, half marathon, and marathon (30:41+, 1:05:13, and 2:17:01 respectively) leading up to the NYC Marathon. [81]
Tamirat Tola wasn't thinking about breaking the New York City Marathon course record as he was running by himself in Central Park for the last few miles of the race. The Ethiopian runner broke the ...
Grete Waitz ( née Andersen, 1 October 1953 – 19 April 2011) was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. In 1979, at the New York City Marathon, she became the first woman in history to run the marathon in under two and a half hours. Waitz won nine New York City Marathons, women's division, between 1978 and 1988, the ...
In the women’s wheelchair race, his compatriot Catherine Debrunner won her first New York City marathon with a course record of 1:39.32, more than eight minutes ahead of three-time champion ...
"35 men and 30 women have won the open division of the New York City Marathon, while 9 men and 7 women have won the wheelchair division, representing 22 different countries in all" - I think this could do with a re-write, as it kinda reads like the 16 wheelchair winners somehow represented 22 countries Ha, good point.