{"id":390098,"date":"2026-11-01T20:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T20:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/390098\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T20:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T20:58:18","slug":"2026-nyc-marathon-winner-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/390098\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NYC Marathon Winner Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSheila Chepkirui bested defending champ Hellen Obiri<\/a> to win her second women\u2019s race at the 2026 New York City marathon<\/a> Sunday. The two Kenyan runners have now won the last four NYC Marathons combined, with Obiri in the pole position in 2023 and 2025 and Chepkirui in 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tChepkirui finished in 2:24:36, with American Jessica McClain in second at 2:24:42 and Obiri in third at 2:24:43<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the men\u2019s race, Swedish runner Andreas Almgren crossed first (2:06:01) in his first World Major Maratho ahead of Yemaneberhan Crippa of Italy (2:06:14) and Kamohelo Mofolo of Lesotho (2:06:26). Last year\u2019s winner, Kenyan Benson Kipruto, came in fourth at 2:06:27.<\/p>\n

\n\tChepkirui\u2019s victory came in the Adidas Adizero Adios Pro 3<\/a>, capping off a dominant year for the shoe that included the first official sub-two hour finish by Kenyan Sebastian Sawe at the London Marathon<\/a> and a new women\u2019s world record by Tigst Assefa at the same race. Of the 14 major Marathon winners in 2026, eight wore the Pro Evo 3 and one more won in the Pro Evo 2.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tAdidas<\/a> Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Adios Pro 3 weighs just 97 grams for a men\u2019s size 9.5, coming in 30 percent lighter than its predecessor and with a 1.6 improvement in running economy. It\u2019s the lightest race-legal running shoe ever recorded, and Yomif Kejelch also wore the Pro Evo 3 while becoming the second man to finish a marathon in under two hours just behind Sawe in London.<\/p>\n

\n\tAll three of the London, Berlin and Chicago Marathons were swept by runners in the Pro Evo 3. All six podium finishers at Berlin were also wearing the same shoe, a showing even more impressive than when all three men\u2019s medal runners at the 2016 Olympics wore the original Nike<\/a> Vaporfly. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen you think you\u2019ve reached the limit, you actually haven\u2019t. There\u2019s always more you can achieve,\u201d Charlotte Heidmann, Adidas<\/a> category director for Adizero, told Footwear News for a story on the shoe\u2019s launch in April. \u201cWhen we introduced the Pro Evo 1, 138 grams was exceptional, and now we\u2019ve reduced it even more. It\u2019s just me talking here today, but collaboration helps to achieve things you didn\u2019t think were possible some years ago.\u201d <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tNike<\/a> Apex. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Nike<\/p>\n

\n\tAlmgren won in the Nike Apex<\/a>, giving the shoe its first win in a major marathon. Still to release in January, the Apex boasts two Air Zoom units stacked on top of each other at the forefoot and a 40 percent improvement energy return compared to the Alphafly 3. The pinnacle Nike super shoe also offers 10 percent greater energy compared to the Alphafly 4,<\/a> which just launched in September. <\/p>\n

\n\tLast year, Obiri set a new women\u2019s course record<\/a> of 2:19:51 in the On Cloudboom Strike LS while winning the NYC Marathon for the second time. Kipruto won the men\u2019s race in the event\u2019s closest-ever finish while wearing the Adidas Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheila Chepkirui bested defending champ Hellen Obiri to win her second women\u2019s race at the 2026 New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12424,9,2790,6390,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-390098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-adidas","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-marathon","tag-nike","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390098","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=390098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}