A yr after Hellen Obiri made her marathon debut in New York Town and completed 6th, she earned her redemption with a dash end over Letesenbet Gidey within the ultimate mile to win the 2023 TCS New York Town Marathon. Obiri is the primary girl in 34 years to win the Boston Marathon and the New York Town Marathon in the similar yr.
Obiri got here into Central Park sprinting clear of the chasing Gidey with lower than a mile to head, profitable by way of a detailed margin of 5 seconds over the ladies’s 10,000m international file holder.
With a star-studded girls’s box, all eyes have been at the long-standing direction file of two:22:31 prior to the race started. The ladies made it transparent that they weren’t out to get the file within the first 10K–ruling out the danger of a quick time with a slower-than-usual tempo.
The ladies’s race didn’t get started till the overall 8 kilometres when Kenya’s Viola Cheptoo driven a five-minute mile tempo on the entrance. With Obiri, Gidey and 2022 champion Sharon Lokedi in pursuit in Cheptoo, the 3 started to surge. “I stored telling myself to be affected person,” Obiri says in a post-race interview with Canadian Working. “I do know my strengths are within the ultimate few miles, and I made certain to provide the ones all I had.”
Gidey completed 5 seconds at the back of Obiri for her moment in her moment occupation marathon (first main). 2022 NYC champion Lokedi rounded out the rostrum, completing 10 seconds at the back of Obiri and 4 seconds after Gidey for 3rd.
Hellen Obiri 🇰🇪 is the queen of NYC!
She sprints to her second-consecutive marathon victory in 2:27:23!#NYCMarathon #RunYourWay percent.twitter.com/xDpSNm94B8
— Canadian Working (@CanadianRunning) November 5, 2023
Obiri’s time of two:27:23 was once the slowest profitable mark since Edna Kiplagat ran 2:28:20 in 2010. “I got here right here to win,” says Obiri. “Closing yr, I made errors, and this yr I felt I discovered from them.”
The ultimate girl to win Boston and New York in the similar yr was once Norway’s Ingrid Kristiansen in 1989. Obiri hopes her ancient win will earn her a place at the Kenyan marathon workforce for the 2024 Paris Olympics. There is not any doubt that if she beneficial properties variety from Athletics Kenya she shall be probably the most favourites to win gold.
Ladies’s most sensible 10 finishers
1. Hellen Obiri (KEN) — 2:27:23
2. Letesenbet Gidey (ETH) — 2:27:29
3. Sharon Lokedi (KEN) — 2:27:33
4. Brigid Kosgei (KEN) — 2:27:45
5. Mary Ngugi (KEN) — 2:27:53
6. Viola Cheptoo (KEN) — 2:28:11
7. Edna Kiplagat (KEN) — 2:29:40
8. Kellyn Taylor (USA) — 2:29:48
9. Molly Huddle (USA) — 2:32:02
10. Fantu Zewude Jifar (ETH) — 2:34:10
Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola breaks direction file at 2023 TCS New York Town Marathon
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