{"id":390156,"date":"2026-11-01T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/390156\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T22:00:08","slug":"andreas-almgren-sheila-chepkirui-claim-new-york-city-marathon-titles-field-level-media-professional-sports-content-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/390156\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreas Almgren, Sheila Chepkirui claim New York City Marathon titles &#8211; Field Level Media &#8211; Professional sports content solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York City Marathon featured both a debutant winner and a repeat champ.<\/p>\n<p>Andreas Almgren of Sweden won the men\u2019s race on Sunday in his first marathon attempt, while Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya captured the women\u2019s title after previously winning in New York in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Almgren, 31, finished in two hours, six minutes and one second. Yemaneberhan Crippa (Italy) placed second, Kamohelo Mofolo (Lesotho) was third and Benson Kipruto (Kenya), the reigning men\u2019s champion, settled for fourth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw that I got a pretty big gap and then it\u2019s just like, \u2018OK Andreas, enjoy these few last hundred meters now because this is not a thing a lot of people get to experience,&#8217;\u201d Almgren said on the ESPN broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>Almgren had not competed at the 26.2-mile distance before this, but he was an accomplished athlete at other distances. His achievements this year alone included gold medals in the 10,000 meters at the European Championships and the half marathon at the World Road Running Championships. Almgren also took home bronze in the 10,000 meters at last year\u2019s World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t ask for a better debut. It\u2019s better than anything I could have imagined. This marathon thing, it\u2019s quite fun,\u201d Almgren quipped.<\/p>\n<p>On the women\u2019s side, Chepkirui finished in two hours, 24 minutes and 36 seconds, exactly one second off her winning time in 2024. She placed third in New York in 2025 despite a superior time of 2:20:24.<\/p>\n<p>Chepkirui fended off countrywoman Hellen Obiri over the last mile. Jessica McClain of the U.S. also passed Obiri right at the finish line for second.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last mile was really tricky,\u201d Chepkirui said. \u201cI had to be patient because I knew Hellen was really strong, so I had to really push up to the finish line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s wheelchair race was won by Marcel Hug of Switzerland in 1:28:14. His compatriot, Catherine Debrunner, won the women\u2019s wheelchair title in 1:40:02, finishing only 30 seconds off of the course record she set while winning in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field Level Media<\/p>\n<p>                                        <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/be4452b65ace878d206f2029709048c825036e3517e6a89f4eedc3d4c530e2ba.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" height=\"96\" width=\"96\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City Marathon featured both a debutant winner and a repeat champ. Andreas Almgren of Sweden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-390156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390156","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=390156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}