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11:45 The final wave of runners departed the starting line over an hour ago. Many are still transversing the boroughs.
11:40 Some 55,000 athletes are running today.
The five boroughs of New York City are out cheering on the many athletes from around the city and globe who are racing today in the 54th annual New York City Marathon.
It was a thrilling finish to the men’s race as Alexander Mutiso Munyao had been closing the gap on Benson Kipruto in the last 50 minutes and was making one final surge. But Kipruto edged Mutiso Munyao for the victory by less than a second.
11:32 He started running at 74. Now he’s the oldest runner at the marathon.
To stay healthy in his retirement years, Koichi Kitabatake swam every week at a gym near his home in Yokohama, Japan. But after undergoing cataract surgery at 74, his doctor forbade him from swimming because the risk of infection was too high.
An instructor at the gym posed a suggestion: What about runningt?
He started off light, but when he began to sign up for local 5Ks, he said, “my wife was impressed.” At 78, he decided it was time to ramp up.
“The New York marathon was my main target,” Mr. Kitabatake said, but his pace was too leisurely for the race’s cutoff time. He ran his first marathon in 2012, in Paris.
Mr. Kitabatake is 91 now. In the 13 years since he began competing in marathons, he has run in 33, accruing races like notches in his belt. The New York race is his third marathon this year.
At his age, Mr. Kitabatake is constantly hitting milestones and breaking records. At 89, he was the oldest runner at the 2022 London Marathon. Last year, after running the Sydney Marathon at 90, he became the oldest person to ever finish that race.
Mr. Kitabatake has more than two years to go before he can break the record for oldest finisher in the New York marathon. (That record is held by Josef Galia of Germany, who ran in 1991 at the age of 93.)
Mr. Kitabatake is one of only seven nonagenarian runners in the race’s history, according to the New York Road Runners, the marathon’s organizer.
His marathon training is methodical: Mr. Kitabatake starts each day by stretching, and he has been running several miles twice a week to stay limber. But he keeps his pre-race runs to a minimum to avoid injury.
“At my age, too much practice doesn’t make any sense,” Mr. Kitabatake said. His goal, above all, is to be able to keep running.
And he prefers to listen to his body on race days, he said, than to push for a certain time or pace: “A marathon,” he said, “is very unpredictable. It all depends on the day.”
And what’s on his mind as he travels through the course?
Mr. Kitabatake was matter of fact. “Many people ask me this question,” he said. “I just try to concentrate on thinking nothing.”
“And not falling,” he added.
Mr. Kitabatake is taking on the New York marathon for the third time, after running it first in 2014 and again in 2018, when he, at 85, was one of the race’s two oldest runners.
11:17 One popular genre of marathon signage: a blown-up image of your loved one’s face. Brian Boyd, 59, brought an image of Coco the dog to cheer on his daughter, Sarah Moran, 34. “She was her family dog growing up,” Boyd said. (He also keeps a travel-size version of the sign to bring to marathons overseas.)
11:13 Jessica Martin, a teacher at Public School 154 in the Bronx, brought some of her fourth- and sixth-grade students to cheer the runners along East 135th Street. The children reached out for high-fives and passed out water to exhausted runners. They’re all recent immigrants from Gambia, Mexico or the Dominican Republic and are learning English. “I want them to feel part of the city,” Martin said. “Belonging to a community helps with the language.”
11:08 The race’s winners may have already been declared, but the marathon is still in full swing here in Downtown Brooklyn, where people on all three stories of a building along the course are watching the runners go by.
11:07 New York City Marathon: Elite men's results
1. Benson Kipruto - 2:08:09
2. Alexander Mutiso - 2:08:09
3. Albert Korir - 2:08:57
4. Patrick Dever - 2:08.38
5. Matthias Kyburz - 2:09:55
6. Joel Reichow - 2:09.56
7. Charles Hicks - 2:09:59
8. Sondre Norastad Moen - 2:1:15
9. Tsegay Weldilbanos - 2:10:36
10. Joe Klecker - 2:10:37
11, Daniola Meucci - 2:10:40
12. Hillary Bor - 2:10:47
13. Abbabiya Simbassa - 2:10:53
14. Abel Kipchumba - 2:13:06
15. Colin Bennie - 2:12:35
16. Emmanual Levisse - 2:13:05
17. Eliud Kipchoge - 2:14:36
18. Yudai Fukada - 2:14:51
11:56 As Crescent Street filled with runners and the wind picked up in Long Island City, Queens, Michele Gorman retreated into Foodcellar Market with her daughter Ellie, 4, to watch the race from the market’s large cafeteria windows.
“I have a little FOMO right now because I’m not out there on the sidewalk, cheering with everybody,” said Gorman, 36, of Astoria. “But when you have a 4-year-old, sometimes you need to take a break, get some food and warm up.”
11:54 When runners finish the race, they still have to walk about a mile to exit Central Park. Several pedicab drivers are clustered on Broadway between 63rd and 66th Streets, where the runners exit, waiting for customers who are ready to finally get off their feet.
11:52 Cheering for runners as they pass through Brooklyn.
11:49 Fun fact: For years in the early 2000s, runners descended on Central Park the night before the big race to chow down on thousands of pounds of pasta and salad, carb-loading for a better performance the next day. The marathon-eve dinner was thrown by the pasta company Barilla, then a sponsor of the race.
11:48 The art of the marathon sign is similar to that of the Halloween costume, with bonus points awarded to those that play off recent moments in pop culture. On the Upper East Side of Manhattan, two prime examples: one referring to “a Jet2 holiday” and the other calling back to the brazen Louvre heist.
11:45 “Let’s go! Let’s go! Welcome to the Bronx!” Sherian Russell, 52, a member of the Bronx Sole running club, bellows into a megaphone as runners race — or hobble — down 135th Street in the Bronx. “I see you!” she yells. It’s Mile 20, a spot known to runners as “The Wall,” and Bronx Sole has set up a tent with caution tape and a sign that reads “Caution: Wall Breaking in Progress.”
11:43 New York City Marathon: Men's wheelchair results
1. Marcel Hug - 1:30:16
2. David Weir - 1:34:09
3, Tomoki Suzuki - 1:36:28
4. Jetze Plat - 1:38:46
5. Evan Correll - 1:40:07
6. Miguel Jiminez Vergara - 1:43.02
7. Sho Watanbe - 1:43:33
8. Joshua Cassidy - 1:43:38
9. Johnboy Smith - 1:44:22
11:37 Benson Kipruto win’s the men’s race.
Benson Kipruto was so confident that he was about to win the men’s crown at the New York City Marathon on Sunday that he raised his arms in triumph just before the finish line — and it nearly cost him.
Alexander Mutiso Munyao had been closing the gap on Kipruto in the last 50 minutes and was making one final surge, which seemed to catch Kipruto by surprise. The result was thrilling: Kipruto edged Mutiso Munyao for the victory by less than two-tenths of a second.
Kipruto, who has won major marathons in Tokyo, Chicago and Boston, added New York to his growing list of achievements, finishing in 2:08:09. Mutiso Munyao was the runner-up by 16 hundredths of a second, while Albert Korir made it a podium sweep for Kenya by placing third.
Joel Reichow was the top American finisher in seventh.
Eliud Kipchoge, a legendary figure who may have been making his final major marathon appearance, faded to a 17th-place finish. It was also his first (and perhaps final) appearance in New York.
11:35 How do you safely cross the steady stream of runners? At a designated crossing point in Downtown Brooklyn, race officials are guiding pedestrians across the course in choreographed shifts. Crossers are ushered into boxes marked with orange tape on the ground, where they briefly get a front-row view of the action before moving ahead. The crossing zones were first introduced last year.
11:32 The margins of victory, as of now:
Women’s wheelchair: 5:43
Men’s wheelchair: 3:52
Women’s open: 16 seconds
Men’s open: three hundredths of a second
11:30 Jess Vander, holding a “dance break” sign, is having a dance party with friends in the middle of Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn as runners pass by. “It’s just giving people a chance to have a little bit of fun at Mile 7,” she said, adding, “We’ve already had a few people breaking it down, loosening up — it’s just the start of this thing.”
11:24 Gloria Clapes and her friend Marta Garcia ran with their four children two blocks uphill to the base of the Queensboro Bridge. Their husbands were running the marathon, but both men were far away, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
The man they really wanted to see was Sergio Turull, a runner, Instagram celebrity and family acquaintance back home, in Spain.
“Sergio is famous in Spain, and he is really good-looking,” said Clapes, 47, who is from Barcelona. “Our children really like him.”
11:22 Eliud Kipchoge has less than a half-mile remaining in his final marathon, and the crowd is cheering as loudly as it did for the top two runners.
11:20 Kipurto holds off Munyao in dramatic finish in pro men's race
A tight race most of the way became a two-man race between Benson Kipruto and Alexander Mutiso Munyao over the final mile.
Kipruto, who won marathons in Tokyo, Chicago and Boston, held the lead down the stretch, but Munyao stayed on his heels the entire way.
The 2024 London winner was not able to pass Kipruto, who crossed the finish line first in a time of 2:08:09.
Munyao finished a fraction of a second behind.
11:17 Half a mile to go and we don’t know who is going to win the men’s race.Kipruto a stride in front. Make it two. Mutiso Munyao sprints in the last 50 meters. They cross together! Kipruto wins in 2:08:09, 16 hundredths of a second ahead.
11;15 Half a mile to go and we don’t know who is going to win the men’s race.
11:13 At the elite men take the turn through Columbus Circle into Central Park, the close race has the crowd holding up hundreds of cell phones to capture photos.
11:12 Another dose of marathon history: The New York City Marathon was televised for the first time in 1981. This year, the marathon broadcast is reaching an estimated 550 million homes in 160 countries.
11:11 Hellen Obiri of Kenya wins the women’s elite race.
Hellen Obiri was side-by-side, and stride for stride, with Sharon Lokedi with a half mile left in the women’s race. And then Obiri made one final surge, pumping her arms as she separated herself from Lokedi, a fellow Kenyan, in one of the more exciting finishes in recent memory.
Obiri, 35, finished alone in 2 hours 19 minutes 51 seconds to claim her second New York City Marathon crown. She obliterated the course record by over 2 minutes in the process.
It was another huge achievement for Obiri, who continues to clutter her résumé. A two-time champion in both New York and Boston, she is also a three-time Olympic medalist and seven-time world champion.
Lokedi, who won the New York race in 2023, finished 16 seconds behind Obiri, while Sheila Chepkirui, who had been the reigning champion, was third. Fiona O’Keeffe was the top American in fourth.
Sifan Hassan, the decorated Dutch runner, finished sixth in her New York debut.
11:09 Kipruto surges; he’s trying to get a gap in Central Park. He can’t shake Mutiso, though. A mile and a half more.
11:07 And here come the men. Four left from that lead pack of eight: Kipruto, Mutiso Munyao, Korir and Dever. Two and a half miles to go.
11:05 As more runners reach First Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the race within the race begins — friends and family members sprint down closed side streets or look for open Citi Bike docks as they try to catch their loved ones in time to cheer them on.
10:56 Obiri surges. She takes the lead.
Hellen Obiri of Kenya, the 2023 winner, takes the 2025 New York City Marathon in 2:19:51.
As the pro women approach Columbus Circle, the cheers along the course herald their arrival before they come into sight.
10:52 How much are the prizes for the winners?
Plenty of runners in the New York City Marathon will walk away with a sense of personal satisfaction, bragging rights and a participation medal.
But for the elite runners, there is more to gain if they win their category: thousands of dollars in prize money.
This year, the top female and male athletes will win $100,000 each. Each runner-up gets $60,000, and the prize amount steadily decreases all the way to the 10th-place winners, who will get $2,000 each.
The top wheelchair athlete will receive $50,000. Smaller prizes will be awarded to competitors who come in second ($25,000), third ($20,000), fourth ($15,000), fifth ($10,000) and sixth place ($5,000).
American runners also compete for an additional prize. The top American man and woman will each take home a first place reward of $25,000, with smaller prizes for second ($15,000), third ($10,000), fourth ($5,000) and fifth place ($3,000).
Runners in the Masters Division — that is, invited professional athletes who are 40 and older — are competing to win $3,000 if they come in first or second place, or $1,000 if they come in third.
Members of the New York Road Runners, the organization that puts on the marathon, are eligible for separate cash prizes, including $5,000 for the female and male winners.
The top athletes in the Open and Wheelchair Divisions also win a $50,000 bonus if they break a record in their event.
10:50 Here are the eight men in the lead: Albert Korir, Benson Kipruto, Abel Kipchumba, Hillary Bor, Tsegay Weldlibanos, Abbabiya Simbassa, Alexander Mutiso Munyao and Patrick Dever.
10:48 Me again! It’s time for a fun fact. Runners who are losing steam as they hustle past the 8-mile mark in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, will get a pick-me-up at the corner of Lafayette and Clermont Avenues: a high school band’s rendition of the “Rocky” theme song. Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School has been setting up its marching band in the same spot on the course since 1979.
10:45 A Kenyan winner from the last three years is all but certain to repeat today in the women’s race. But will it be Sharon Lokedi (2022), Hellen Obiri (2023) or Sheila Chepkirui (2024)? Three miles to go.
10:37 Marcel Hug and Susannah Scaroni won men’s and women’s wheelchair races convincingly.
Marcel Hug of Switzerland and Susannah Scaroni of the United States won the men’s and women’s wheelchair races in convincing fashion on Sunday, repeating a feat they pulled off in 2022, when they both set course records.
The victories were Hug’s record seventh New York City Marathon championship and Scaroni’s third title in New York. Hug’s last championship in New York came in 2023, while Scaroni repeated as champion. Hug also won six of the seven global major marathons this year.
10:35 Eliud Kipchoge, the Kenyan long-distance runner who has declared this his last marathon, made his way past Mile 17 on the Upper East Side of Manhattan to the delight of the growing crowd of spectators, who rang cowbells and shouted his name as he raced past.
10:33 Jack Hirschowitz, 80, is juggling as he runs in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn.
10:30 The first of the elite women runners just sped by a crowd of spectators in the Bronx at that crucial Mile 20 point. The crowd erupted into cheers and loud whistles, almost drowning out the sound of a police chopper above.
10:27 Waves of runners are still starting the race. Spectators and athletes will have a long day of enjoying, or struggling through, the 26.2-mile route.
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10:25 Susannah Scaroni, who just won her third New York City Marathon women’s wheelchair race, said on ESPN that the conditions were absolutely ideal. “Barely any wind,” she said, “and honestly, what felt like a tailwind on Fifth Avenue, which is one of the toughest places.”
10:24 Marcel Hug on winning his record seventh New York men’s wheelchair race, on ESPN: “To be honest, it was maybe not as easy as it looked. I had some issues with my back stroke, so I lost some seconds. But who cares? I won the race, and I’m really happy.”
10:23 Among the elite women, a surge from the last three New York winners (all Kenyans, by the way) drops O’Keeffe and Hassan again. And we’re not ignoring the men: They continue to chug along in a big pack. Fireworks there are still to come.
10:22 So who is Fiona O’Keeffe, the American who is holding her own with some of the world’s best marathoners? A track runner at Stanford, she made her marathon debut in the Olympic trials last year and won. But she dropped out of the Games after just a few miles because of an injury.
10:17 Soon after Carl Banks started dating Ricki Richards, in 2016, he surprised her with a fun date: the Bridge and a Slice Half Marathon, in which the two of them ran from Astoria over the Queensboro Bridge to Central Park, where they celebrated with pizza.
Nine years later, the couple appeared by the marathon course in Long Island City carrying oversized pizza slices made of papier-mâché. They planned to later buy three cheese pizzas and share them with the slower runners gathering strength to climb the bridge.
“The elites probably won’t want it,” said Richards, 35. “But maybe the regular people will.”
10:13 Welcome back to the women’s lead group, Sifan Hassan. Five leaders on First Avenue. On the men’s side, the lead pack remains 20-plus.
10:11 Back with a dramatic moment in New York marathon history. In 1994, Germán Silva, a Mexican long-distance runner, was leading the race when he took a wrong turn at the 25.5-mile mark and found himself running through Central Park. “I saw the faces and I knew I had made a mistake. I didn’t have to ask anybody,” he told The New York Times that year. Silva made it back onto the course and managed to overtake his competitors, winning the race by two seconds.
10:08 Someone has grittily and unexpectedly fought back to the top group of three women. But it isn’t Sifan Hassan; it’s the unheralded American Fiona O’Keeffe.
10:04 There’s a steady stream of runners passing through Downtown Brooklyn now, about eight miles into the course. Some of the runners are raising their arms as they pass by to prompt cheers from the crowd. It’s working!
10:02 Among the women’s elites, Chepkirui, Obiri and Lokedi are pulling away a little bit on the bridge to Manhattan; that leaves O’Keeffe and, surprisingly, Hassan slipping back.
10:00 Angelica Landa had planned to run her first New York marathon this year, until she tore a tendon in her thigh on a training run in September. To compensate, she arrived at the course in Long Island City, Queens, at 8 a.m. sharp equipped with a bullhorn, a cowbell and her pet yorkie, Oslo, to cheer the first of the wheelchair racers.
“My only regret is that I bought the cheapest bullhorn on Amazon,” Landa said. “It was $9. I should have spent $13 and gotten the louder one.”
9:55 The women’s elite race reaches the halfway point in 1:11:01. And the field at the front is thinning. The defending champ Sheila Chepkirui; the 2022 winner Sharon Lokedi; Hellen Obiri; the Olympic champ Sifan Hassan, and Fiona O’Keeffe have separated themselves from the field. That’s a strong crew: O’Keefe is the only one who was not regularly cited as a favorite today.
Susannah Scaroni repeats as champion in women’s wheelchair race.
Two women in racing wheelchairs side by side on a roadway.
This is Susannah Scaroni’s third title.Credit...Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters
Susannah Scaroni repeated as champion in the women’s wheelchair race at the New York City Marathon, winning in convincing fashion in 1:42:10.
It was Scaroni’s third title. She won the race and set a course record in 2022 and won again last year.
9:50 Raabiyah Legree, 33, decided to come cheer after Eliud Kipchoge said this week that today’s race would be his final marathon. She and her twin sister, Hafsah Legree, and six others came down from Springfield, Mass., and lined up along Central Park South.
9:48 The crowd in Downtown Brooklyn erupts into cheers as the men’s professional runners turn onto Flatbush Ave. They pass in a flash. “Don’t Stop Believing” is playing over speakers.
9:47: Susannah Scaroni demolishes the women’s wheelchair field to win her third New York City marathon. Her unofficial time is 1:42:10.
9:46 In Downtown Brooklyn, spectators are standing shoulder to shoulder along the edges of the course. A DJ is playing hits like “I Gotta Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas and “OMG” by Usher. For anyone who can’t get a clear view, a large screen is displaying live feeds of the athletes racing in other parts of the city.
9:43 Two new crossing points for pedestrians in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Last year, the New York Road Runners, which organizes the event, tested out crossing zones in two locations in Brooklyn so that spectators and New Yorkers trying to get around had a way to cross the course. This year, they added two more in Manhattan.
Follow the instructions of the volunteers at these spots to cross.
Brooklyn: Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street near Atlantic Terminal
Brooklyn: Bedford and Broadway in Williamsburg
Manhattan: First Avenue at 72nd Street
Manhattan: First Avenue and 86th Street
9: 42 There are now about a dozen runners in the women’s lead pack; the men’s pack is still more than 20 strong.
9: 41 In addition to 2024, when there were over 55,000 finishers, the New York marathon has broken the record for the biggest marathon in history three other times — in 2019, 2018 and 2009.
9:35 Marcel Hug wins a record 7th New York City Marathon men’s wheelchair race.
Marcel Hug of Switzerland won his record seventh New York City Marathon in the men’s wheelchair race in 1:30:16.
Hug, known as the Silver Bullet for the color of his helmet, led from the outset, gradually putting David Weir, last year’s runner-up, far behind. His last championship in New York came in 2023.
9:33 Marcel Hug won the New York City Marathon men’s wheelchair race in 2013, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022 and 2023. And now, at age 39, he adds the 2025 title — his seventh, a record. His unofficial final time is 1:30:16.
9:26 The men went through 5K in a bit over 15 minutes, in a pack of 23 that included every big name.
9:24 At 10K, the women’s pack is 14 strong and includes most of the big names. The American Molly Seidel, though, has fallen 18 seconds back, and Gotytom Gebreslase of Ethiopia, a former world champion, is 30 seconds back.
9:22 Near Barclays Center in Downtown Brooklyn, excitement is peaking as the professional women runners have just turned the corner onto Flatbush Avenue.
9:21 Marcel Hug holds the New York City men’s wheelchair record with six victories. He’s five miles away from making it seven, holding a lead of three minutes.
Oh, and he’s averaging a 3:33 mile. Whooosh.
9:18 Jennifer and Stephanie Spaulding, sisters who live in Kings Park, on Long Island, came into the city to cheer for friends, running influencers they follow on social media, and the pro runners. They have a whole list of people they’re tracking, and both said that following the influencers and seeing the elite athletes inspires them as runners. They both ran the marathon in 2023.
9:16 Good morning — I’ll be peppering the blog with fun facts about the race. Here’s the first. 55,646 people finished last year’s New York City marathon, setting a record for the largest marathon in history. That’s a long way from the inaugural race in 1970, when 127 people signed up and 55 finished.
9:16 Jennifer and Stephanie Spaulding, sisters who live in Kings Park, on Long Island, came into the city to cheer for friends, running influencers they follow on social media, and the pro runners. They have a whole list of people they’re tracking, and both said that following the influencers and seeing the elite athletes inspires them as runners. They both ran the marathon in 2023.
9:14 Good morning — I’ll be peppering the blog with fun facts about the race. Here’s the first. 55,646 people finished last year’s New York City marathon, setting a record for the largest marathon in history. That’s a long way from the inaugural race in 1970, when 127 people signed up and 55 finished.
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