The favorites are Kenyans Evans Chebet, the reigning Boston Marathon champion, and Albert Korir, the defending New York City champion. This race includes four of the five fastest active American men (Rupp, Leonard Korir, Scott Fauble and Abdi Abdirahman, a 45-year-old, five-time Olympian in his final marathon.)

male runner to win New York City was Meb Keflezighi in 2009. … It sounds bad, I guess, when I’m hearing myself talk about it right now, but things have really, the last couple of weeks, have been going all right.” “Those are the days where it’s like, we’ve got to just back off, do some more exercises, stretch things out, get it treated. “My leg just doesn’t work right sometimes,” Rupp said at a press conference, referencing his nerve problems. He said Thursday that he feels a lot better now but sometimes has a “bad day.” He missed training time before worlds due to a herniated disk and pinched nerve in his back. Rupp, 36, placed 19th in July’s world championships in his native Oregon, stopping four or five times in the last several miles while not at his best physically. Galen Rupp, a two-time Olympic medalist and the last American man to win a major marathon (Chicago 2017), makes his debut in the five-borough race.

It could find a way to deliver a newsworthy follow-up to September’s Berlin Marathon, where Kipchoge lowered his world record by 30 seconds, and October’s Chicago Marathon, where Kenyan Ruth Chepngetich missed the women’s world record by 14 seconds and Emily Sisson took 43 seconds off the American record. The world’s top marathoners, including world record holders Eliud Kipchoge and Brigid Kosgei of Kenya, are absent.īut it once again has the most decorated American fields of the fall marathons. New York City produces fewer record times due to the hilly course and lack of pacers. The New York City Marathon, the world’s largest annual major marathon with more than 50,000 finishers (before COVID-19 restriction years), is Sunday. The fall marathon season already produced the men’s world record, the second-fastest women’s time ever and the women’s American record.

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