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Eritrea's Ghirmay Ghebreslassie, Kenya's Mary Keitany win NYC Marathon
By Tribune news services Contact Reporter
NOVEMBER 6, 2016 New York
Eritrea's Ghirmay Ghebreslassie won the New York City Marathon in the men's field.
Mary Keitany won her third straight New York City Marathon to become the first woman to win three consecutive marathons in New York since Grete Waltz's five-year run from 1982 to 1986.
Ghebreslassie finished his debut in New York with an unofficial time of 2 hours, 7 minutes, 51 seconds.
For most of the course, the men's field was a three-man race between Ghebresiassie, Kenya's Lucas Rotich and Ethiopia's Lelisa Desisa. By mile 20, Ghebreslassie gradually began pulling away.
The 19-year-old beat Rotich by 62 seconds and became the youngest male winner in New York. The previous youngest male winners were Alberto Salazar in 1980 and Tom Fleming in 1973, who won as 22-year-olds.
Defending champion Stanley Biwott withdrew at the 10-mile mark with a right calf injury. He also dropped out in the Rio Olympics after getting sick.
American Abdi Abdirahman placed third.
Desisa, who was the runner-up in New York in 2014 and a two-time Boston Marathon winner, dropped out at the 22nd mile.
Keitany, a 34-year-old Kenyan, defended her title Sunday in an unofficial time of 2 hours, 24 minutes, 26 seconds, beating countrywoman Joyce Chepkirui by nearly four minutes.
Last year, Keitany pulled away around the 21-mile mark. On Sunday, she began getting a sizable lead at the 15-mile mark as the race crossed the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan.
Keitany reached Manhattan in less than 90 minutes. As she began running up First Avenue, television commentators referred to her as "The Boss of New York City," and following the 20-mile mark, Keitany led by more than two minutes.
Molly Huddle placed third in her debut after setting an American record at the 10,000 meters in the Rio Olympics.
Tatyana McFadden won the women's wheelchair race to sweep the four major marathons for the fourth straight year.
The 27-year-old American finished with an unofficial time of 1:47:43. She completed the Grand Slam by winning in London, Boston, Chicago and New York, extending her record streak to 17 straight wins in major marathons.
McFadden, who won six medals at the Rio Paralympics, took the lead for good at the 15-mile mark and comfortably led the rest of the course to win for the fifth time in New York.
Marcel Hug of Switzerland won his second NYC Marathon title in the men's race and his sixth marathon this year. He edged Australia's Kurt Fearnley by a sixth-tenths of a second, repeating their photo finish at last month's Chicago marathon.
Defending champion Ernst Van Dyk of South Africa came in fourth.
Associated Press
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Eritrea's Ghirmay Ghebreslassie crosses the finish line to win the NYC Marathon's men's division on Nov. 6, 2016. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP/Getty Images)
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Ghirmay Ghebreslassie, 21, youngest male to win New York City Marathon
Aimee Berg, Special for USA TODAY Sports 12:29 p.m. EST November 6, 2016
NEW YORK – Youth crushed experience in the men’s race at the New York City Marathon on Sunday.
Eight days before his 21st birthday, marathon world champion Ghirmay Ghebreslassie of Eritrea tore away from Kenya’s Lucas Rotich and Ethiopia’s Lelisa Desisa at mile 20 and held on for victory in his debut on the five-borough course.
Ghebreslassie is the youngest male winner of the race, finishing in 2:07:51, a full minute ahead of runner-up Lucas Rotich of Kenya.
Ghebreslassie had placed fourth at the Rio Olympic marathon this summer, and fourth at the London Marathon this spring where he ran his personal best 2:07:46.
The men’s race was guaranteed a new champion when the 2015 winner Stanley Biwott of Kenya dropped out at mile 10 with a right calf injury. (Biwott also dropped out of the Rio Olympic marathon this summer after a mix-up with his teammate’s water bottle left him with debilitating stomach pain and unable to continue around the 20-mile mark.)
Hometown fans were thrilled to see two Americans running with the leaders through the first 11 miles — Abdi Abdirahman and Dathan Ritzenhein — but it became a three-man race by the 12½-mile mark, with Desisa, Ghebreslassie, and Rotich leading the way. Ritzenhein, the 33-year-old Michigan resident, dropped out at mile 19 with a right heel injury. Lelisa dropped out at mile 22.
Abdirahman finished third, in an unofficial time of 2:11:23, at age 39.
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Ghebreslassie and Keitany dominate New York marathon
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-athletics-marathon-new-york-idUKKBN1310WU
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