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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 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]
Marathon world record progression. Kelvin Kiptum during his world record run at the 2023 Chicago marathon with 2:00:35. Mary Keitany during her women-only world record run at the 2017 London Marathon with 2:17:01. World records in the marathon are ratified by World Athletics, the international governing body for the sport of athletics [citation ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running.These are the current world records in various five-year-groups, maintained by WMA, the World Association of Masters Athletes, which is designated by the World Athletics (formerly IAAF) to conduct the worldwide sport of Masters ...