{"id":390874,"date":"2026-11-02T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/390874\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T13:48:10","slug":"almgren-rules-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/390874\/","title":{"rendered":"Almgren rules New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andreas Almgren won the TCS New York City Marathon on his debut run at the distance on an incredible day in Central Park. <\/p>\n

Almgren pulled away in the final mile to clock 2:06:01, 13 seconds ahead of Italy\u2019s Yemaneberhan Crippa. Kamohelo Mofolo, on his 21st birthday, finished third, just one second ahead of last year\u2019s winner Benson Kipruto. <\/p>\n

In a thrilling race, Almgren timed his kick to perfection to become the first Swede to win an Abbott World Marathon Major.<\/p>\n

Almgren is also the first non-African Majors winner since Yuki Kawauchi stunned everyone in Boston in 2018. <\/p>\n

The women\u2019s race was just as thrilling with Sheila Chepkirui regaining her New York City title after an exciting battle with Hellen Obiri. <\/p>\n

\"\"Sheila Chepkirui wins the women’s race’<\/p>\n

The pair were inseparable until the final 200m climb in Central Park at which point Chepkirui pulled clear to win by six seconds. <\/p>\n

In a dramatic twist, American Jess McClain, who was four second behind at the 40KM mark, surged past Obiri in the closing moments to snatch second. <\/p>\n

The dramatic racing continued in the men\u2019s wheelchair race where Marcel Hug beat Daniel Romanchuk in a thrilling sprint in Central Park. <\/p>\n

In the most closely fought race this season, Hug and Romanchuk raced wheel-to-wheel throughout the five Boros. <\/p>\n

Romanchuk, who won here in 2024, appeared to have made a race-winning move as the pair entered Central Park for a second time but Hug produced a champion\u2019s response, sliding into the American\u2019s slipstream before catapulting his way to the finish line to win by just one second. <\/p>\n

\"\"It was a Swiss double in the wheelchair races<\/p>\n

It was a close battle for third place too with David Weir edging out Lito Anker by a second. <\/p>\n

World record holder Catherine Debrunner concluded her season in style by winning her fifth Major. <\/p>\n

The Swiss never looked back after establishing a 2:08 lead at 10KM, eventually crossing the line in 1:40:02, just 30 seconds behind her own course record. <\/p>\n

Tatyana McFadden and Susannah Scaroni, who became a parent less than two months ago, finished second and third respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andreas Almgren won the TCS New York City Marathon on his debut run at the distance on an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-390874","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\/390874","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=390874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}