Conner Mantz said he was speechless after a disappointing showing in Sunday\u2019s New York City Marathon, where he finished 11th with a time of 2:07:27.<\/p>\n
It marked the first time since the 2023 Boston Marathon that Mantz did not finish among the top eight in a major marathon, including the Olympics, Boston, New York, Chicago and the Olympic Trials. That was also the last time he was not the top American finisher. Zouhair Talbi and Ahmed Muhumed, two African-born naturalized U.S. citizens, and Ryan Ford, finished sixth, seventh and 10th, respectively.<\/p>\n
The race was won by Sweden\u2019s Andreas Almgren with a time of 2:06:01.<\/p>\n
Mantz, a two-time NCAA champion at BYU who grew up in Smithfield, was a dominant figure on the road-racing circuit until injuries put him on the sideline for a year. Sunday\u2019s New York race was his first marathon since Oct. 12, 2025, when he set the American record of 2:04:43 and finished fourth in Chicago. Since then he had been sidelined by injuries \u2014 two sacral stress fractures as well as related stress reactions in the pelvis.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what it was,\u201d Mantz told Let\u2019s Run after the race. \u201cIt just seemed like my legs weren\u2019t there today \u2026 I don\u2019t know. Some days you really have it and some days \u2026 I\u2019m kind of speechless right now. My workouts have gone so well. I don\u2019t know. I gotta get a little bit fitter. I\u2019ve got some work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if the injuries played a role, he said, \u201cI think a lot mentally, probably physically too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mantz had attached himself to the lead pack until about 21 miles during Sunday\u2019s race, but then he fell off the pace and never recovered.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like I was making moves well,\u201d he said. \u201cThen I had to make a couple of stops at the water stations and it got crowded. When people cut in front of you and they stop, you have to stop. So at 35K by the time I got my (water) bottle, I was behind the pack by a good 15 meters. After that I just couldn\u2019t get going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aiden Troutner, who was Mantz\u2019s teammate at BYU, placed 14th in New York Sunday, finishing with a time of 2:08:54.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conner Mantz said he was speechless after a disappointing showing in Sunday\u2019s New York City Marathon, where he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,17318,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-390502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-news-feed-national","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390502","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=390502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}