{"id":26031,"date":"2025-11-02T18:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26031\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T18:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:15:10","slug":"kipruto-obiri-earn-100k-in-prize-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26031\/","title":{"rendered":"Kipruto, Obiri Earn $100K in Prize Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn a thrilling sprint finish, Kenyan Benson Kipruto won the men\u2019s pro race at the 2025 New York City Marathon<\/a> over countryman Alexander Mutiso. The two men crossed simultaneously in 2:08:09\u2014both raised their arms to break the tape\u2014and after a moment, Kipruto was declared the winner by a fraction of a second, walking away with the top prize of $100,000. Mutiso will take home $60,000. Albert Korir, also of Kenya, wraps up the podium, finishing third in 2:08:57; he earned $40,000 for his run on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is Kipruto\u2019s fourth World Marathon Major victory, having won the 2021 Boston Marathon, 2022 Chicago Marathon and 2024 Tokyo Marathon. All three of the top men are sponsored by Adidas.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c[The race] was amazing,\u201d Kipruto said to Lewis Johnson on the ESPN broadcast after the race. \u201cI was giving myself a moral [boost, saying], \u2018c\u2019mon, you can win!\u2019 I was pushing so hard to make sure I won.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe women\u2019s pro race saw a similarly exciting finish. With a surge in the final half-mile of the race, Kenyan Hellen Obiri crossed the line first in 2:19:51, smashing the 22-year-old course record of 2:22:31 by more than two minutes. Obiri, who won NYCM in 2023 and finished second in 2024, outlasted countrywoman Sharon Lokedi, the 2022 NYCM champion. Sheila Chepkirui, the 2024 NYCM champion, wrapped up the Kenyan podium sweep of the women\u2019s pro race.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tObiri, who is sponsored by On Running and trains in Boulder, Colo., with the On Athletics Club, will take home $100,000 for her win, plus a bonus $50,000 for the course record. Lokedi, sponsored by Under Armour, earns $60,000 for second, and Chepkirui, running for Adidas, gets $40,000.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen we went into Central Park, and it was the three of us \u2026 [I was thinking to myself] be patient,\u201d Obiri said on the ESPN broadcast after the race. \u201cI knew like [Lokedi] was there, she\u2019s always there. All of them have won before, so I was thinking, \u2018Can I be the first one to win a second time?\u2019 \u2026 I tried to think, \u2018I\u2019m the best, let me try to push.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAmerican Fiona O\u2019Keeffe, the 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials winner, finished fourth in 2:22:49, becoming the fastest American woman to ever run the NYCM course. She kept pace with the top three finishers through 20 miles, with the group of four running down 1st Ave in Manhattan shoulder to shoulder, before falling off around the 20-mile mark. O\u2019Keeffe, sponsored by Puma, will take home $25,000 for her finish, plus an additional $25,000 as the top American.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tJoel Reichow and Charles Hicks were the top Americans in the men\u2019s race, finishing in 2:09:56 and 2:09:59, good for sixth and seventh. They will earn $10,000 and $7,500, respectively, for their top-10 overall finishes, plus $25,000 and $15,000 for being the top two Americans.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn total, the New York City Marathon doles out $969,000 in prize money<\/a>, including $534,000 total to the men\u2019s and women\u2019s top-10 finishers, and $118,000 total to the top-five American finishers. Also, NYCM hands out an additional $50,000 to any athletes who break existing course records. With Obiri\u2019s women\u2019s record this year, NYCM awarded more than $1 million in prize money this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tKenyan Eliud Kipchoge, the 40-year-old 11-time world major marathon winner and two-time Olympic gold medalist, was with the lead pack coming off the Queensboro bridge at around the 17-mile mark before falling off slightly. He finished his first NYC Marathon\u2014marking his completion of all seven World Marathon Majors\u2014in 2:14:36, good enough for 17th.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe wheelchair races saw repeat winners from the Chicago Marathon three weeks ago. Switzerland\u2019s Marcel Hug crossed the line in the pro men\u2019s wheelchair race in 1:30:16, for his record seventh NYC Marathon win. American Susannah Scaroni won her second straight, and third overall, NYCM in 1:42:10. Both will take home $50,000 for their wins.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s so overwhelming to win here in New York, it\u2019s so meaningful to me,\u201d Hug said to Lewis Johnson on the ESPN broadcast post-race. \u201cI won the race, but it was not [as] easy as it looked like [because] I had some issue with my back strap. I lost seconds, maybe minutes, but who cares, I won the race.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHug beat his closest competitor, Great Britain\u2019s David Weir, by nearly four minutes. In the women\u2019s wheelchair race, American Tatyana McFadden finished in second in 1:47:54. Both will get $25,000 for second.<\/p>\n

\n\tThird through sixth-place wheelchair finishers also take home part of a total of $250,000 for men\u2019s and women\u2019s wheelchair racers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHug and Scaroni locked up the Abbott World Marathon Majors elite series title with their victories. Throughout the year, racers receive points for a top-five finish in the seven AWMM races (Tokyo, Boston, London, Sydney, Berlin, Chicago, New York). The athletes with the most points at the end of the cycle receive a prize bonus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a thrilling sprint finish, Kenyan Benson Kipruto won the men\u2019s pro race at the 2025 New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,2790,56,63,65,64,16524],"class_list":["post-26031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-marathon","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-prize-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}