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On September 13, 1970, Gary Muhrcke won the first New York City Marathon held in Central Park in 2:31:38. 127 runners started the race and 55 finished. Nina Kuscsik, the sole woman entrant in the race, dropped out at 15 miles due to illness.
The New York City Marathon starts at Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island. The runners cross the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge into mostly-flat Brooklyn where for the next 12 miles (19.3 km) they pass through Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, Park Slope, Fort Greene, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Williamsburg.
Waitz dominated the women's marathon between 1978 and 1989, winning nine of the eleven races during that period: her nine wins are the most of any runner at the New York City Marathon. In the men's race, Bill Rodgers has won the most times, doing so in four consecutive years, from 1976 to 1979.
Nathan Martin, currently the fastest American-born Black marathoner, will be competing in the New York City Marathon on Sunday.
Tens of thousands of runners will race across the five boroughs this weekend for the annual New York City Marathon. Kathleen Culliton , Patch Staff Posted Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 12:07 pm ET | Updated ...
Tens of thousands of runners will hit the streets of New York City for the 2023 New York City Marathon this weekend on Nov. 5 — including TODAY’s own Sheinelle Jones!
The New York City Marathon starts at Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island. The runners cross the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge into mostly-flat Brooklyn where for the next 12 miles (19.3 km) they pass through Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, Park Slope, Fort Greene, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Williamsburg.
The 2023 TCS New York City Marathon is expected to send 50,000 runners over the five boroughs Sunday. The 26.2-mile race starts roughly at 9 a.m., with staggered times, from a start in...
CENTRAL PARK, NY — The New York City Marathon is returning in 2022 with its full capacity of 50,000 runners, up from the 25,000 participants that ran the famous race last year due to COVID-19 ...
In 1979, at the New York City Marathon, she became the first woman in history to run the marathon in under two and a half hours. Waitz won nine New York City Marathons , women's division, between 1978 and 1988, the highest number of victories in a single big city marathon in history.