Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola, the final addition to the lads’s elite area on the 2023 TCS New York Metropolis Marathon, has received the race in a brand new course document time of two:04:58.
Tola broke the earlier course document of two:05:06 set by Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai in 2011 by eight seconds. Tola broke away from the sector because the race got here by way of Brooklyn on the 17 km mark. His compatriot, Jemal Yimer, chased him up the Queensboro Bridge and into Manhattan earlier than Tola pulled away as soon as once more and by no means appeared again.
Tamirat Tola turns into the primary man to go underneath 2:05 on the @nycmarathon
He broke the course document of two:05:06 by eight seconds!#NYCMarathon #RunYourWay pic.twitter.com/mml7p6BuIq
— Canadian Working (@CanadianRunning) November 5, 2023
New York was Tola’s third marathon of the yr, after a third-place end in London in April and a late DNF on the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest two months in the past. Tola received gold within the marathon on the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Ore., the place he additionally broke the championship document.
“I used to be not serious about the course document at present,” Tola informed Canadian Working. ” I used to be simply considering how can I win.”
Tola was the ultimate addition to the lads’s elite area 4 weeks in the past, when 2022 champion Evans Chebet and 2019 champion Geoffrey Kamworor withdrew attributable to harm. Tola mentioned in a post-race interview that he’s “extraordinarily completely happy together with his consequence” and got here to New York for redemption after dropping out of the 2023 Worlds marathon at 38 km attributable to abdomen points.
“Once I received the Nice North Run in September, I made a decision I might then come to New York,” Tola informed Canadian Working post-race. “Every thing is nice with coaching. I simply began considering with my coach about how I may win New York in six weeks.”
2021 NYC champion Albert Korir was the runner-up on Sunday, in 2:06:57, and Ethiopia’s Shura Kitata rounded out the rostrum in 2:07:11.
Hellen Obiri sprints to victory at 2023 TCS New York Metropolis Marathon
Canada’s Levins DNF
It was not the New York Marathon debut Canada’s marathon document holder Cam Levins hoped for. The 34-year-old from Vancouver Island dropped out of the race close to the 20K mark in Brooklyn.
Levins got here to NYC with the formidable objective of changing into the primary Canadian to win the race and to make use of the hilly course as a part of his preparation for the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games.
Particulars on Levins’s withdrawal are but to be confirmed.
Males’s high 10 finishers
1. Tamirat Tola (ETH) — 2:04:58 CR
2. Albert Korir (KEN) — 2:06:57
3. Shura Kitata (ETH) — 2:07:11
4. Abdi Nageeye (NED) — 2:10:21
5. Koen Naert (BEL) — 2:10:25
6. Maru Teferi (ISR) — 2:10:28
7. Iliass Aouani (ITA) — 2:10:54
8. Edward Cheserek (KEN) — 2:11:07
9. Jemal Yimer (ETH) — 2:11:31
10. Futsum Zienasellassie (USA) — 2:12:09
Males’s wheelchair division outcomes
Switzerland’s Marcel Hug pulled away from the sector early within the race to attain his sixth victory in Central Park, ending in 1:25:29 however the course document by an agonizing three seconds, which value him a $50,000 bonus. Hug is the one athlete on the earth with six NYC Marathon wins. He additionally broke the course document at this yr’s Chicago Marathon.
1. Marcel Hug (SUI) — 1:25:29
2. Daniel Romanchuk (USA) — 1:30:07*
3. Jetze Plat (NED) — 1:34:22
*qualifies for 2024 paralympic crew
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