{"id":26040,"date":"2025-11-02T18:26:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26040\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T18:26:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:26:18","slug":"hellen-obiri-of-kenya-sets-record-and-wins-the-2025-nyc-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26040\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellen Obiri of Kenya sets record and wins the 2025 NYC Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Hellen Obiri of Kenya set a course record to win the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/02\/us-news\/2025-nyc-marathon-thousands-of-runners-assemble-for-the-big-apple-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City Marathon<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Obiri, who also <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/11\/05\/metro\/nyc-marathon-results-2023-who-won\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won the race in 2023<\/a>, finished in 2 hours, 19 minutes and 51 seconds. <\/p>\n<p>Obiri was running with 2022 winner Sharon Lokedi until she pulled away from her countrymate in the final mile, surging ahead and winning easily, besting the previous course record of 2:22.31 set by Margaret Okayo in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Hellen Obiri of Kenya crosses the finish line to win the New York Marathon on Sunday. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Obiri also won the race in 2023, finishing in 2 hours, 19 minutes and 51 seconds.  AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Hellen Obiri of Kenya celebrates winning the New York Marathon.  AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s elite runners Hellen Obiri and Sheila Chepkirui cross the 20K mark in the TCS New York City Marathon. Erik Pendzich\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Sheila Chepkirui finished third. <\/p>\n<p>All three beat the previous course best.<\/p>\n<p>The trio of former champions separated themselves heading into the Bronx at Mile 20. <\/p>\n<p>Kenya\u2019s Hellen Obiri celebrates with her national flag after winning the women\u2019s elite race alongside second-place Kenya\u2019s Sharon Lokedi and third-place Kenya\u2019s Sheila Chepkirui. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>It is the second straight year that Kenyans took the top three spots. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>American Fiona O\u2019Keeffe and Dutch runner Sifan Hassan had made it a pack of five once the group entered Manhattan a few miles earlier but couldn\u2019t hang on for the final six miles.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first time that the previous three women\u2019s winners had been in the same race since 2018. The trio didn\u2019t disappoint, putting forth stellar efforts.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second straight year that Kenyans took the top three spots.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Keeffe finished fourth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Hellen Obiri of Kenya set a course record to win the New York City Marathon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,9,24,55,2790,54,56,14837,168,319,58,16528],"class_list":["post-26040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-marathon","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-runner","tag-running","tag-sports","tag-us-news","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040","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=26040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}