The 2024 TCS New York Metropolis Marathon will showcase a really elite discipline, with 14 former champions and 27 Olympians participating. The occasion, going down on Sunday, Nov. 3, will see the return of defending champions Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia (who can also be the newly-crowned Olympic champion and Olympic report holder from Paris 2024) and Hellen Obiri of Kenya (the Paris 2024 marathon bronze medallist) who’re positive to spare no effort in defending their respective titles.
Girls’s discipline
Within the girls’s occasion, the 42.2K race by New York‘s famend 5 boroughs will characteristic Obiri, who has three Olympic and 7 World Championship medals in her again pocket, alongside along with her 2023 and 2024 Boston Marathon titles.
“There’s no place like New York, and I’m so able to defend my title on what has develop into one in every of my favorite days of the yr,” Obiri advised media. “I’ve been racing very properly on the roads within the U.S., and I hope I can have one other good day that sees me in competition as soon as we enter the ultimate levels in Central Park.”
Three-time Olympic champion and 16-time world champion Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia will make her NYC Marathon debut; it’s been a while since we’ve seen the “baby-faced destroyer” race, since she has been busy elevating her household and tending to her enterprise pursuits again house; she has not raced a marathon since 2018.
Sharon Lokedi of Kenya (2022 NYC Marathon champion) might be seeking to improve her 2023 third-place end in New York; she completed simply off the rostrum at Paris 2024. The sector from Kenya may also star Sheila Chepkirui, who holds a really fast 2:17:29 to her title, and four-time Olympic medallist Vivian Cheruiyot.
Dakotah Lindwurm, the highest American finisher at Paris 2024 with a powerful Twelfth-place end, may also be within the combine. She’ll be joined by two-time Olympian and 2018 Boston Marathon champion Des Linden, in addition to eight-time New Stability Fifth Avenue Mile champion and 1,500m Olympic medallist Jenny Simpson.
Males’s discipline
On the 2023 NYC Marathon, Tola crossed the road in a new course report, clocking 2:04:58. In Paris, he upset one of many deepest Olympic marathon fields in historical past to win with a brand new Olympic report of two:06:26, an unimaginable feat on such a hilly course. The 33-year-old additionally gained the world championship marathon at Eugene, Ore., in 2022.
“I’m excited to defend my title in New York, particularly coming off an Olympic-record marathon efficiency,” Tola advised the press. “The hilly course and crowds in Paris undoubtedly ready me properly for the bridges and spectators in New York, the place possibly I can go even sooner this yr.”
Bashir Abdi of Belgium will definitely give Tola a run for his cash. Abdi took silver behind Tola at Paris 2024, and holds bronze medals within the occasion from Tokyo 2020 and the 2022 World Championships.
Evans Chebet of Kenya, winner of the 2022 NYC Marathon and 2022 and 2023 Boston Marathons, might be preventing to return to the highest spot in New York.
Kenya’s Albert Korir (2021 NYC Marathon champion), Geoffrey Kamworor (2017 and 2019 champion) and Abel Kipchumba (2024 United Airways NYC Half champion) are additionally robust contenders. Kamworor, who as soon as held the half-marathon world report, has made the rostrum every of the 4 instances he took half within the NYC Marathon. Kipchumba might be making his NYC Marathon debut.