{"id":390330,"date":"2026-11-02T01:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T01:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/390330\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T01:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T01:01:10","slug":"new-york-city-marathon-results-2026-elite-race-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/390330\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Marathon Results: 2026 Elite Race &#8211; Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya&#8217;s Sheila Chepkirui won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flotrack.org\/articles\/16339972-2026-nyc-marathon-live-updates-results-winners\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">2026 New York City Marathon<\/a> women&#8217;s elite race Sunday, holding off American Jess McClain and defending champion Hellen Obiri in a thrilling finish through Central Park.<\/p>\n<p>Chepkirui crossed the finish line in 2 hours, 24 minutes, 36 seconds, securing her second NYC Marathon title after winning in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>McClain finished second in 2:24:42, just 6.19 seconds behind the champion, while Obiri took third in 2:24:43.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s race remained tightly contested throughout the five-borough course. Chepkirui led at 20K, 25K and 30K before Obiri moved ahead at 35K.<\/p>\n<p>Chepkirui reclaimed the lead at 40K, where Obiri trailed by just 0.04 seconds and McClain remained within striking distance.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenyan pulled away over the final 2.2 kilometers to reclaim her crown.<\/p>\n<p>Obiri, who set the women&#8217;s course record of 2:19:51 in 2025, was denied a third New York victory.<\/p>\n<p>New York City Marathon Results: Elite Women RunnersSheila Chepkirui (Kenya) \u2014 2:24:36Jessica McClain (USA) \u2014 2:24:42Hellen Obiri (Kenya) \u2014 2:24:43Edna Kiplagat (Kenya) \u2014 2:25:42Mercy Chelangat (Kenya) \u2014 2:25:46<br \/>Carrie Ellwood (USA) \u2014 2:26:28Weini Kelati (USA) \u2014 2:26:51Paige Wood (USA) \u2014 2:27:29FloTrack Is The Streaming Home For Many Track And Field Meets Each Year<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss all the track and field season action streaming on FloTrack. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flotrack.org\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Check out the FloTrack schedule for more events.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FloTrack Archived Footage<\/p>\n<p>Video footage from each event will be archived and stored in a video library for FloTrack subscribers to watch for the duration of their subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Join The Conversation On Social<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s Sheila Chepkirui won the 2026 New York City Marathon women&#8217;s elite race Sunday, holding off American Jess&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-390330","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\/390330","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=390330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}