Red Sox manager Alex Cora has a long list of competitive memories in New York. He added 26.2 miles to the ledger on Sunday.
Cora and his partner, Angelica Feliciano, ran the New York City Marathon. Cora, who turned 50 last month, completed the race in 4:37:51, while Feliciano crossed the finish line in 5:00:17.
While Feliciano is a two-time veteran of the Boston Marathon, it was Cora’s first marathon. He has run the 5K prelude to Marathon Monday in Boston on multiple occasions, but has been unable to run that marathon due to a conflict borne of his team’s Patriots Day morning games.
Hellen Obiri of Kenya broke the women’s record Sunday in New York while compatriot Benson Kipruto won the men’s race by edging Alexander Mutiso by three-hundredths of a second.
Obiri, who also won the race in 2023, finished in 2:19:51. She was running with 2022 winner Sharon Lokedi until Obiri pulled away from her countrymate in the final mile, surging ahead and winning easily by 16 seconds to best the previous course record of 2:22.31 set by Margaret Okayo in 2003.
“It feels so great. … I am so happy to run the course record,” said Obiri, who was second at the 2025 Boston Marathon behind Lokedi. “With 1K to go I felt like I was so strong. I have something left in my tank.”
Kipruto and Mutiso separated themselves from the chase pack in the men’s race heading into Mile 24. Kipruto seemed to have put the race away, pulling away from Mutiso in the last 200 meters. But Mutiso, who also is from Kenya, wasn’t done, surging in the last 50 meters before falling just short. Kipruto, who was running the New York race for the first time, finished in 2:08.40. That finish topped the 2005 race that was decided by a second.
“I was aware that Mutiso was behind,” said Kipruto, who also has won the Boston, Chicago, and Tokyo marathons. “It was so close and I knew because I know Mutiso is a strong guy.”
An Associated Press report was included in this story.
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