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This Day in Monitor & Area–November 3
TCS NY Metropolis Marathon
1991—Simply two months after profitable the ten,000-Meters on the World Championships in Tokyo, and fewer than a yr after giving start to daughter Eilish, Scotland’s Liz McColgan gained the ladies’s race in 2:27:32, the quickest debut ever for the space (on the time). Being a rookie within the occasion, McColgan, who stated she was ready to run 2:24, ran cautiously till she was challenged by Russia’s Olga Markova (2:28:27) with lower than 4 miles to go. “I used to be shocked to see her,” McColgan stated of Markova, who would end 2nd. “She put me into motion. For the primary time, I used to be striding out and felt higher for the previous couple of miles than I had at any level in the course of the race.” McColgan was named to the NYRR Corridor of Fame in 2021.
Fading to sixth after being among the many leaders for a lot of the race was Joan Benoit-Samuelson (2:33:48), the winner of the primary Olympic Marathon for girls in 1984.
It was a giant day for Mexican males, who completed 1st (Salvador Garcia/2:09:28), 2nd (Andrés Espinosa/2:10:00), and 5th (Isidro Rico/2:11:58).
Garcia broke away from the sector after 16 miles, with nobody prepared to go along with him. Kenya’s Ibrahim Hussein, the 1987 winner, stated, “There have been so many individuals cheering on First Avenue. I simply thought he was responding to the group. I’ve run this race earlier than, so I let him go. I used to be improper. It was an ideal transfer.” Hussein would end 3rd in 2:11:07.
Different Notable Finishers (25,775 whole)
Ladies: 3.Lisa Ondieki (Australia) 2:29:02, 4.Alena Peterková (CZE) 2:30:36
Males: 9. John Treacy (Eire) 2:15:09…13.Juma Ikangaa (Tanzania/defending champion) 2:17:19
Outcomes: https://results.nyrr.org/event/911103/finishers/1389658
High 20: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_New_York_City_Marathon
ABC Protection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em-tbnCo4LM
Ladies’s End: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1826991310644294
1996—Winners this yr had been Italy’s Giacomo Leone (2:09:54) and Romania’s Anuța Cătună (2:28:18).
Different Notable Finishers
Males: 2. Tuma Turbo (Ethiopia) 2:10:09, 3.Joseph Kamau (Kenya) 2:10:40, 4.John Kagwe (Kenya) 2:10:59 (would win in 1997), 5.Andrés Espinosa (Mexico) 2:11:39, 6.Cosmas Ndeti (Kenya) 2:11:53, 7.Martin Fiz (Spain) 2:12:31…24.Joe McVeigh (1st American) 2:21:12; DNF-Stefano Baldini (Italy), Moses Tanui (Kenya)
Ladies: 2.Franca Fiacconi (Italy) 2:28:42, 3.Joyce Chepchumba (Kenya/would win in 2002) 2:29:38, 4.Kim Jones (USA) 2:34:46…7.Tegla Loroupe (Kenya/2-time defending champion) 2:37:19
Outcomes: https://results.nyrr.org/event/961103/finishers
High 20: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_New_York_City_Marathon
Highlights(Features a take a look at the 1st five-boro race in 1976): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dHdLbmGsjI
2002–For the primary time in a serious U.S. marathon, the ladies’s skilled discipline within the New Metropolis Marathon began individually, 35 minutes earlier than the skilled males and the remainder of the sector. The separate ladies’s begin highlighted race historical past’s best ladies’s discipline. After three top-five finishes, Joyce Chepchumba (2:25:56) lastly scored a victory. She was adopted throughout the road by Russia’s Lyubov Denisova (2:26:17) and fellow Kenyan Esther Kiplagat (2:27:00). Legally blind Marla Runyan (2:27:10) was fourth, the best inserting by an American since Kim Jones’s runner-up end in 1989. Different notable finishers included Eire’s Sonia O’Sullivan (11th/2:32:06) and American Sylvia Mosqueda (12th/2:33:47)
The transfer to have separate begins for women and men this yr was in sharp distinction to what came about on the 1972 race, when the six feminine entrants, protesting an AAU ruling that they needed to begin 10 minutes earlier than their male counterparts, sat on the beginning line earlier than becoming a member of the lads once they began! (The AAU was sued for discrimination once they added 10 minutes to the ladies’s instances!).
As marathons grew in measurement and the standard of the ladies’s fields elevated, it was felt that the ladies deserved their very own time within the highlight. It additionally eradicated the notion that girls had been being unfairly paced by males when the 2 genders competed collectively.
Following his Boston Marathon victory in April, Rodgers Rop (2:08:07) gained a detailed males’s race over fellow Kenyan Christopher Cheboiboch (2:08:17). Different notable finishers within the males’s race included Italy’s Stefano Baldini (5th-2:09:12), who would win Olympic gold in 2004, former Windfall star Mark Carroll of Eire (6th-2:10:54), and future legend Meb Keflezighi, who completed 9th (2:12:35) in his debut on the distance! (31,838 finishers)
Outcomes: https://results.nyrr.org/event/NYC2002/customStatistics
High 20: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_New_York_City_Marathon
A Look Again (2017): https://www.nerunner.com/2017/10/31/15-years-ago-nyc-marathon-put-women-first/
ESPN’s 30 for 30/Six Who Sat:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/sports/women-new-york-marathon.html
2013—The Marathon returned to the streets of New York a yr after the 2012 race was canceled as a consequence of Hurricane Sandy.
Trailing by 3:30 on the midway level of the ladies’s race, Kenya’s Priscah Jeptoo (2:25:07) patiently labored her approach up towards the entrance, ultimately taking the lead from Ethiopia’s Bizunesh Diba (2:25:56) close to the 24-mile marker and pulling away for the win.
Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai (2:08:24) repeated his win from 2011, beating runnerup Tsegay Kebede (Ethiopia/2:09:15) by nearly a minute.
Each winners obtained $100,000 in prize cash, with Jeptoo incomes an extra $500,000 because the World Marathon Majors title winner.
Starters: Complete-50,740, Males-31,002, Ladies-19,738; Finishers: Complete-50,266, Males-30,699, Ladies-19,567
Different Notable Finishers
Males: 5. Stanley Biwott (Kenya) 2:10:41 (would win in 2015)…13.Ryan Vail 2:13:23…15.”Bob” Tahri (France/world-ranked steeplechaser) 2:18:16; DNF-Martin Lel (Kenya/winner in 2003, 2007)
Ladies: 3.Jeļena Prokopčuka (Latvia/winner in 2005,2006) 2:27:47…6.Kim Smith (New Zealand) 2:28:49…9.Edna Kiplagat (Kenya, 2010 winner) 2:30:04…13.Adriana Nelson (1st American) 2:35:05…20.Amy Cragg 2:42:50
Outcomes: https://results.nyrr.org/event/40/finishers
High 20: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_New_York_City_Marathon
https://www.letsrun.com/events/2013-ing-new-york-city-marathon/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ouf2rVTT_U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ233tUHdH8
2019—Kenya’s Geoffrey Kamworor (2:08:13) and Joyciline Jepkosgei (2:22:38) had been the TCS NY Metropolis Marathon winners. It was the twond win in NY for Kamworor, who additionally completed 1st in 2017. Jepkosgei, making her debut on the distance, was the upset winner over her good friend and fellow Kenyan, Mary Keitany (2:23:32), a 4-time winner in NY. Her profitable time is the twond-fastest within the race’s historical past (CR is 2:22:31). It was the twond win in NY this yr for Kepkosgei, who gained the NYC half-marathon in March.
Kamworor was greeted on the end by his coaching associate and mentor, Eliud Kipchoge, the World File holder within the Marathon (on the time). “I didn’t wish to disappoint him,” Kamworor stated. “That gave me quite a lot of motivation.”
The highest American finishers had been Jared Ward (2:10:45) and Des Linden (2:26:46), who positioned sixth of their respective divisions.
Ethiopia’s Lelisa Desisa, the defending males’s champion, dropped out early within the race, apparently not absolutely recovered after profitable on the World Championships a month earlier.
With 53,627 finishers, this yr’s race turned the biggest marathon in historical past. (30,886 males. 22,741 ladies)
Outcomes: https://results.nyrr.org/event/M2019/finishers
High 25: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_New_York_City_Marathon
Video(Full Race): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-i8EaOaiqM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPdH7I_Jnu8
By The Numbers: https://www.nyrr.org/media-center/press-release/20191105_tcsnycmbythenumbers
https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a29689691/new-york-city-marathon-2019-finisher-record/
Images: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/sports/nyc-marathon-photos.html
T&F Information Protection:
Males: https://trackandfieldnews.com/article/nyc-marathon-men-kamworor-cruises/
Ladies: https://trackandfieldnews.com/article/nyc-marathon-women-fine-debut-by-jepkosgei/
Previous NY Metropolis Marathon Winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_of_the_New_York_City_Marathon
Media Information (2024):
By means of The Years:
Additionally
2007—Ryan Corridor, Dathan Ritzenhein, and Brian Promote completed 1-2-3 on the U.S. Marathon Trials in Central Park to qualify for the 2008 Olympic group, however their celebration was lower quick once they realized that Ryan Shay, one of many pre-race favorites, had collapsed and died simply 5-1/2 miles into the race. It was later decided that his loss of life was attributable to an irregular heartbeat that stemmed from an enlarged and scarred coronary heart.
“It’s heart-wrenching,” stated NYRR President Mary Wittenberg. “These items occur, however they’re not presupposed to occur on the peak of an athlete’s life and profession and on one of many greatest days of their profession. There should be a cause, nevertheless it’s unclear to us proper now.”
Examine these hyperlinks for the complete story:
NY Occasions
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/sports/othersports/04marathon.html?ref=othersports
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/sports/othersports/19runner.html?_r=0
Runner’s World(for subscribers)
https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a20967138/pure-heart/
A Yr Later: http://www.runnersworld.com/masters/ryan-shay-remembered-in-central-park-ceremony
10 Years Later—LetsRun’s Jonathan Gault writes about Shay’s legacy of inspiration
Ryan’s Bench: http://www.runblogrun.com/2012/11/walking-in-central-park-visiting-ryan-shays-bench-by-larry-eder.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Shay
https://und.com/ryan-shay-tribute-notre-dame-mourns-the-death-of-a-champion/
