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Daniel Romanchuk (born August 3, 1998) is an American Paralympic athlete who competes primarily in wheelchair racing events. He won the Chicago Marathon on October 7, 2018; just under a month later, he became the first American to win the men's wheelchair race at the New York City Marathon, as well as the youngest winner in the history of the wheelchair event in New York.
Ryan Hall (born October 14, 1982, in Kirkland, Washington) [2] is a retired American long-distance runner who holds the U.S. record in the half marathon.With his half marathon record time (59:43), he became the first U.S. runner to break the one-hour barrier in the event. [3]
NYC Half Marathon: Runners Dash From Prospect To Central Park - Park Slope, NY - About 25,000 runners will take to the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan for the first NYC Half Marathon in three years.
The annual New York City Half Marathon will bring tens of thousands of runners to the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan Sunday, along with a morning of road closures.
In 2008, the Competitor Group took over Elite Racing, the company that had been organizing the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon. The following year, 2009, an internal audit revealed that the charity in whose name the race had been run, Elite Racing Foundation for Children, Education & Medical Research, had been improperly commingling funds with the for-profit Elite Racing.
Kelvin Kiptum Cheruiyot (2 December 1999 – 11 February 2024) was a Kenyan long-distance runner who currently holds the marathon world record.As of 2024, he ran three of the seven fastest marathons in history [5] and was ranked first among the world's men's marathon runners.
Setting records on the 13.1-mile route, some 25,000 runners made their way through Brooklyn and Manhattan Sunday for a half marathon.
Fred Lebow (June 3, 1932 – October 9, 1994), born Fischel Lebowitz, was a Holocaust survivor, runner, race director, and founder of the New York City Marathon.Born in Arad, Romania, he presided over the transformation of the race from one with 55 finishers in 1970 to one of the largest marathons in the world with more than 52,000 finishers in 2018. [1]