New York Marathon Results 2024: Men’s, Women’s Top Finishers as Defending Champs Lose

Scott Polacek@@ScottPolacekFeatured Columnist IVNovember 3, 2024

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There was a changing of the guard at the 2024 New York City Marathon on Sunday.

While the reigning champions were in both the women’s and men’s fields, it was Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya and Abdi Nageeye of the Netherlands who took home the respective titles.

TCS New York City Marathon @nycmarathonYour 2024 #TCSNYCMarathon Open Women’s division champion is Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya in an official time of 2:24:35. 🥇 pic.twitter.com/TWr4a0nVJb

TCS New York City Marathon @nycmarathonYour 2024 #TCSNYCMarathon Open Men’s division champion is Abdi Nageeye of the Netherlands in an official time of 2:07:39. 🥇 pic.twitter.com/ySskoNtIap

Chepkirui needed to outkick reigning champion Hellen Obiri and did just that in impressive fashion:

Sheila Chepkirui, 2:24:35Hellen Obiri, 2:24:49Vivian Cheruiyot, 2:25:21Eunice Chumba, 2:25:58On the men’s side, Nageeye outlasted a loaded field that included last year’s winner in Tamirat Tola. Tola finished in fourth place this year:

Abdi Nageeye, 2:07:39Evans Chebet, 2:07:45Albert Korir, 2:08:00Tamirat Tola, 2:08:12The biggest storyline coming into this year’s race was whether the reigning champions would prevail again. Obiri arrived in excellent form after winning bronze in the women’s marathon at the Paris Olympics earlier this year, while Tola won the gold medal on the men’s side.

Scott Cacciola of the New York Times noted Tola also set the New York Marathon course record last year with a time of 2:04:58. Still, Albert Korir and Evans Chebet were also among the former champions in the field and they, along with the victor Nageeye, finished ahead of Tola and prevented him from becoming the first man to repeat since 2013.

As for Obiri, she would have been the first women’s repeat winner since Mary Keitany of Kenya won three in a row from 2014-16.

Alas, it was Chepkirui who crossed the finish line first Sunday.

She, along with the rest of the finishers, completed a 26.2-mile course that took runners through all five New York City boroughs.

The race started in Staten Island, crossed the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge into Brooklyn, went over the Pulaski Bridge into Queens, crossed the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan, crossed the Madison Avenue Bridge into the Bronx and then went over the Willis Avenue Bridge into Manhattan ahead of the finish line in the iconic Central Park.