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RESULTS / RESULTS New York City Marathon 2019 [+ Fotos]

With over 50,000 finishers, the New York City Marathon is the largest marathon in the world.

On November 3, 2019, the marathon was held for the 49th time. The marathon route is not suitable for world record times, but for world records in the fields of participants. Because only last year a new world record of finishers was set at a marathon event with 52,813 finishers.

The route of the New York Marathon

A similar number of marathon runners were registered for the New York Marathon 2019, in which the point-to-point course led over many famous bridges in New York and also past many sights. These included the Queensboro Bridge, Madison Avenue Bridge, Central Park and the Guggenheim Museum. The runners passed all known city districts, such as Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx and Manhattan.

Is a course record finally falling?

Due to the profiled route, absolute world class times are excluded. Geoffrey Kiprono Mutai’s course record is also a few years old. In 2011, the Kenyan ran the fastest time to date with 2:05:06 hours. Compatriot Margaret Okayo’s course record with 2:22:31 hours is already 16 years old. Last year, both course records were only just missed. At that time, the Ethiopian Lelisa Desisa ran to victory with 2:05:59 hours. In the women’s category, the Kenyan Mary Keitany celebrated her fourth success in New York since 2014. With 2:22:48 hours, she was only 17 seconds short of the 16-year-old record.

World record holder at the start

The defending champions Mary Keitany and Lelisa Desisa had also registered for the NY Marathon 2019. But also half marathon world record holder Joyciline Jepkosgei. The Kenyan made her marathon debut in New York. In 2017 she ran the fastest half marathon in the history of running in Valencia with 1:04:51 hours in Valencia.

World record holders triumph

In addition to the half marathon world record holder Jepkosgei, Geoffrey Kamworor, the reigning half marathon world record holder, also competed in the men’s race. And both lived up to their role as favorites. In a tactically run race, the men’s course record was out of reach early on. Up until a few kilometers from the finish, only the Kenyan Albert Korir and the previously unknown Ethiopian Girma Bekele Gebre were able to follow the Kenyan Kamworor. After Gebre lost the connection, Kamworor started the decisive attack. After 2:08:13 hours, the half marathon world record holder (58:01 minutes this fall) ran safely to victory. Korir saved 2nd place, 23 seconds behind, from “NoName” Gebre, who followed two seconds later.



In the women’s class, Joycilinie Jepkosgei missed the course record by just seven seconds. The expected duel with Mary Keitany, however, was a clear affair for Jepkosgei. It was able to loosen itself easily on the second half of the route and expanded its lead to almost a minute by the time the finish line was reached. Jepkosgei won after 2:22:38 hours ahead of Mary Keitany (2:23:32 hours).

Arne Gabius misses the Olympic limit

The German Arne Gabius was able to run in the leading group up to about 30 kilometers due to the long passive race. He passed the half marathon mark in 1:04:52 hours. Gabius was clearly below the pace for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, for which a final time of 2:11:30 hours is necessary.

But Gabius could not maintain the pace with the continuation of the race and with 2:12:57 hours ultimately remained well above the Olympic limit.

  1. Joyciline Jepkosgei (Kenya) – 2:22:38 hours
  2. Mary Keitany (Kenya) – 2:23:32 hours
  3. Ruti Aga (Ethiopia) – 2:25:51 hours
  4. Nancy Kiprop (Kenya) – 2:26:21 hours
  5. Sinead Diver (Australia) – 2:26:23 hours
  6. Desiree Linden (USA) – 2:26:49 hours
  7. Kellyn Taylor (USA) – 2:26:52 Hours
  8. Ellie Pashley (Australia) – 2:27:07 hours
  9. Belaynesh Fikadu (Ethiopia) – 2:27:27 hours
  10. Mary Ngugi (Kenya) – 2:27:36 hours
  1. Geoffrey Kamworor (Kenya) – 2:08:13 hours
  2. Albert Korir (Kenya) – 2:08:36 hours
  3. Girma Bekele Gebre (Ethiopia) – 2:08:38 hours
  4. Tamirat Tola (Ethiopia) – 2:09:30 hours
  5. Shura Kitata (Ethiopia) – 2:10:39 hours
  6. Jared Ward (USA) – 2:10:46 hours
  7. Stephen Sambu (Kenya) – 2:11:11 hours
  8. Yoshiki Takenouchi (Japan) –2:11:18 Stunden
  9. Abdi Abdirahman (USA) – 2:11:34 Stunden
  10. Connor McMillan (USA) – 2:12:07 Stunden

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