Africans Win New York Marathon 2018

Desisa of Ethiopia won the men’s race .

Photo Niyi Fote

The New York Marathon started in 1970 in Central Park with about 127 entrants but only 55 runners finished and the only female runner couldn’t finish became of illness. It was organized by Fred Lebow and Vince Chiappetta and the prizes for the winners were inexpensive wristwatches, recycled baseball and bowling trophies while the entry fee was $1 and the total budget for that event was $1000. However,the event has grown much bigger and has now reached the biggest number ever of about 52,000 runners in this 2018 edition.There were many runners from all over the world that participated in the race.The runners first got together at Javits Convention Center few days before the race to collect their kits and it was a great opportunity for them to unite and get to now each other; taking pictures, buying some sporting kits and getting ready for the big race which was on the 4h of November.

The New York Marathon race, women’s category was won by Mary Jepkosgei Keitany of Kenyan being her 4th times,while Shalane Flanagan was the 3rd position and also the first American to finish.The men’s category was won by Ethiopian Lelisa Desisa and the below are the Prizes

Open Division

1st	$100,000	6th	$10,000
2nd	$60,000	7th	$7,500
3rd	$40,000	8th	$5,000
4th	$25,000	9th	$2,500
5th	$15,000	10th	$2,000

Total = $534,000 ($267,000 men, $267,000 women)

The wheelchair category was won by Manuela Schar for the women and 20 years old American Daniel Romanchuk.He is the youngest ever to win that category.The prizes for the wheelchair winners are as follows-

Wheelchair Division

1st	$20,000	4th	$8,000
2nd	$15,000	5th	$5,000
3rd	$12,000	6th	$2,500

Total = $125,000 ($62,500 men, $62,500 women)..

See the finish time for all first 100 runners…

Overall Men

Place	Bib	Name	Time	State	Country	Citizenship
1	3	Lelisa Desisa	2:05:59	Ethiopia	ETH
2	2	Shura Kitata	2:06:01	Ethiopia	ETH
3	1	Geoffrey Kamworor	2:06:26	Kenya	KEN
4	4	Tamirat Tola	2:08:30	Ethiopia	ETH
5	5	Daniel Wanjiru	2:10:21	Kenya	KEN
6	15	Jared Ward	2:12:24	UT	United States	USA
7	18	Scott Fauble	2:12:28	AZ	United States	USA
8	6	Festus Talam	2:12:40	Kenya	KEN
9	11	Shadrack Biwott	2:12:52	CA	United States	USA
10	19	Chris Derrick	2:13:08	OR	United States	USA
11	9	Juan Luis Barrios	2:13:55	Mexico	MEX
12	443	Tadesse Yae Dabi	2:13:57	NY	United States	ETH
13	12	Tim Ritchie	2:15:22	MA	United States	USA
14	16	Ryan Vail	2:15:31	OR	United States	USA
15	21	Jonny Mellor	2:16:09	United Kingdom	GBR
16	28	Harbert Okuti	2:16:51	NY	United States	UGA
17	17	Scott Smith	2:17:12	AZ	United States	USA
18	10	Bernard Lagat	2:17:20	AZ	United States	USA
19	440	Girma Bekele Gebre	2:18:18	NY	United States	ETH
20	27	Birhanu Dare Kemal	2:18:20	NY	United States	ETH
21	29	Mizael Carrera	2:19:29	NM	United States	PUR
22	444	Suleman Abrar Shifa	2:19:45	NY	United States	ETH
23	446	Diriba Degefa Yigezu	2:20:01	NY	United States	ETH
24	448	Temesgen Habtemariam Bekele	2:20:16	NY	United States	ETH
25	23	Andrew Davies	2:20:23	United Kingdom	GBR
26	20	Florent Caelen	2:22:53	Belgium	BEL
27	1172	Jeremy Bennie	2:23:16	NY	United States	USA
28	457	Matt Gillespie	2:25:05	MA	United States	GBR
29	445	Luis Rivero	2:25:25	Guatemala	GUA
30	1188	Derrick Hamel	2:25:43	NH	United States	USA
31	1223	Aliaksandr Leuchanka	2:26:11	NH	United States	USA
32	22	Alex Monroe	2:26:28	CO	United States	USA
33	24	Nicholas Hilton	2:26:31	AZ	United States	USA
34	453	Daniel Glaz	2:26:45	IL	United States	USA
35	455	Nick McCormick	2:27:35	United Kingdom	GBR
36	1147	Felix Plinke	2:27:43	Germany	GER
37	544	James Kelly	2:27:49	NY	United States	USA
38	554	David Kilgore	2:28:01	NY	United States	USA
39	449	Jack St Marie	2:28:05	CA	United States	USA
40	1153	Matthew Beamer	2:28:08	IL	United States	USA
41	1148	Cristian Marianelli	2:28:35	Italy	ITA
42	1155	Peter Lighting	2:28:41	United Kingdom	USA
43	1216	Sean Fitzpatrick	2:28:43	United Kingdom	GBR
44	1150	Raul Fernandez	2:28:43	Spain	ESP
45	1310	Lucas Baez	2:28:53	Argentina	ARG
46	14	Chris Thompson	2:28:54	United Kingdom	GBR
47	1195	Massi Milani	2:28:55	Va	Italy	ITA
48	2454	Charles Sandison	2:29:02	CT	United States	GBR
49	1160	Alex Price	2:29:18	PA	United States	USA
50	442	Abu Kebede Diriba	2:29:25	NY	United States	ETH
51	549	Daniele Meucci	2:29:38	Italy	ITA
52	1149	Lawrence Avery	2:29:47	UK	United Kingdom	GBR
53	535	Andre Borgen	2:29:49	Norway	NOR
54	1171	Conor Cashin	2:29:54	MA	United States	USA
55	1244	Yipeng Li	2:30:07	China	CHN
56	602	Stuart Haynes	2:30:18	NJ	United States	GBR
57	469	Martin Kjall-Ohlsson	2:30:33	Norway	SWE
58	1164	Eric Bowles	2:30:56	CA	United States	USA
59	1032	Jerome Joussemet	2:30:57	France	FRA
60	1256	Chris Hartshorn	2:31:13	MA	United States	NZL
61	1228	Robert Heczko	2:31:15	Czech Republic	CZE
62	461	Tim Rossi	2:31:19	NY	United States	USA
63	1163	Jonathan Tipper	2:31:22	United Kingdom	GBR
64	890	Jordan Odonoghue	2:31:29	NY	United States	GBR
65	1156	Steven McElligott	2:31:40	QC	Canada	CAN
66	478	Joe Viavattine	2:31:51	MN	United States	USA
67	1427	Sjef Kimpe	2:32:03	Netherlands	NED
68	464	Grzegorz Gronostaj	2:32:03	Poland	POL
69	1411	Jonnathan Varela	2:32:08	Costa Rica	CRC
70	1390	Damien Bruneau	2:32:46	Australia	GBR
71	542	Hashem Zikry	2:32:51	NY	United States	USA
72	585	Felix Cancre	2:33:06	NY	United States	USA
73	1262	Connor Martin	2:33:19	CO	United States	USA
74	586	Andrea Fraquelli	2:33:30	United Kingdom	GBR
75	2052	Seth Woodring	2:33:46	CO	United States	USA
76	476	Tim Jeffreys	2:33:48	NY	United States	USA
77	2097	Kieran Little	2:33:53	Ireland	IRL
78	1599	Matt Lindgren	2:34:26	IL	United States	USA
79	1238	Ciaran McGonagle	2:34:38	Ireland	IRL
80	1181	Stefano Ghenda	2:34:44	TV	Italy	ITA
81	569	John Paulett	2:34:47	NY	United States	USA
82	479	Michael Wardian	2:34:54	VA	United States	USA
83	465	Calum Neff	2:34:54	TX	United States	CAN
84	458	Hugh Parker	2:35:08	NY	United States	USA
85	1180	Narciso Mejia	2:35:08	NY	United States	USA
86	470	David Roeske	2:35:13	NY	United States	USA
87	1233	William Warren	2:35:25	MA	United States	USA
88	1253	Jonathan Rosenbrier	2:35:37	United Kingdom	GBR
89	1315	Chris Gabrielson	2:35:47	MA	United States	USA
90	1035	Mateusz Landuch	2:35:48	Poland	POL
91	471	Ole Kristian Heggheim	2:35:52	Norway	NOR
92	1271	Laurent Michellier	2:35:58	France	FRA
93	1043	Giuseppe Del Priore	2:36:03	Italy	ITA
94	2057	Connor Hesselbirg	2:36:06	NY	United States	USA
95	1323	Pal Oraug	2:36:18	Norway	NOR
96	1224	Jarrod McMullen	2:36:19	Australia	AUS
97	676	Oz Pearlman	2:36:23	NY	United States	USA
98	1166	Franklin Castillo Castillo	2:36:26	Costa Rica	PAN
99	596	Stephen Bione	2:36:31	NY	United States	USA
100	1279	Travis Haslam	2:36:33	Australia	AUS

Overal Women

Place	Bib	Name	Time	State	Country	Citizenship
1	102	Mary Keitany	2:22:48		Kenya	KEN
2	104	Vivian Cheruiyot	2:26:02		Kenya	KEN
3	101	Shalane Flanagan	2:26:22	OR	United States	USA
4	106	Molly Huddle	2:26:44	RI	United States	USA
5	110	Rahma Tusa	2:27:13		Ethiopia	ETH
6	105	Desiree Linden	2:27:51	MI	United States	USA
7	107	Allie Kieffer	2:28:12	NY	United States	USA
8	115	Lisa Weightman	2:29:11		Australia	AUS
9	103	Mamitu Daska	2:30:31	NM	United States	ETH
10	130	Belaynesh Fikadu	2:30:47	NY	United States	ETH
11	113	Stephanie Bruce	2:30:59	AZ	United States	USA
12	116	Roberta Groner	2:31:01	NJ	United States	USA
13	123	Gerda Steyn	2:31:04		South Africa	RSA
14	117	Carrie Dimoff	2:31:12	OR	United States	USA
15	119	Samantha Bluske	2:32:04	AL	United States	USA
16	124	Sydney Devore	2:32:43	MI	United States	USA
17	128	Brittany Charboneau	2:36:35	CO	United States	USA
18	122	Sarah Sellers	2:36:37	AZ	United States	USA
19	487	Eva Almkvist	2:36:48		Sweden	SWE
20	536	Lydia O’Donnell	2:40:52		New Zealand	NZL
21	121	Beverly Ramos	2:40:58	PR	United States	PUR
22	126	Adriana Aparecida da Silva	2:41:00		Brazil	BRA
23	132	Angela Ortiz	2:41:32	NY	United States	USA
24	133	Eva Vail	2:42:19	OR	United States	USA
25	125	Kelsey Bruce	2:46:38	TX	United States	USA
26	3473	Maria Spitsyna	2:46:57		Russia	RUS
27	527	Bridie McCarey	2:48:23	CA	United States	USA
28	488	Anoush Shehadeh	2:49:06	NY	United States	USA
29	3596	Molly Rouillard	2:49:18	MA	United States	USA
30	498	Danielle Hodge	2:49:57	IA	United States	USA
31	4802	Oksana Akhmedova	2:50:53		Russia	RUS
32	4129	Lisa Oed	2:52:16		Germany	GER
33	499	Kelsey Persyn	2:52:19	TX	United States	USA
34	6087	Ericka Mason	2:52:22	TX	United States	USA
35	1648	Hollyann Swann	2:53:04	WV	United States	USA
36	5332	Kelsi Chappell	2:53:10	RI	United States	USA
37	5310	Marije Geurtsen	2:53:35		Netherlands	NED
38	2246	Anna Starostzik	2:54:12		Germany	GER
39	2364	Anna-Katharina Plinke	2:54:13		Germany	GER
40	11474	Giulia Sommi	2:54:19		Italy	ITA
41	545	Sinead Burns	2:54:34	NY	United States	USA
42	485	Caroline Willian	2:54:56	NY	United States	USA
43	1635	Yue Wang	2:55:09		China	CHN
44	778	Gillian Pease	2:55:14	NY	United States	GBR
45	3025	Nicole Quilliam	2:55:23	NY	United States	USA
46	492	Manon Blackman	2:55:44	NY	United States	USA
47	6384	Catalina Langlois	2:55:45		Chile	CHI
48	520	Danika Simonson	2:55:46	IA	United States	USA
49	5167	Angela Chaney	2:55:56	IA	United States	USA
50	495	Alysia Dusseau	2:56:07	NY	United States	USA
51	3726	Kimberly Ridini	2:56:20	NY	United States	USA
52	7860	Shanda Mattis	2:56:22	TN	United States	USA
53	1261	Risa Suzuki	2:56:22		Japan	JPN
54	6024	Amy Manning	2:56:25	OH	United States	USA
55	547	Zanthe Wray	2:56:34		United Kingdom	GBR
56	4460	Louise Davidsson	2:56:35		Sweden	SWE
57	548	Marissa Ward	2:56:48	OH	United States	USA
58	524	Amy Natalini	2:56:57	LA	United States	USA
59	5863	Nancy Jurgens	2:56:59	NC	United States	USA
60	504	Morgan Lingar	2:57:03	NY	United States	USA
61	518	Brandy Leclair	2:57:09	CT	United States	USA
62	5303	Kelsey Luoma	2:57:27	NY	United States	USA
63	7352	Halina Stankevich	2:57:37		Belarus	BLR
64	5395	Emily Fayette	2:57:53	NY	United States	USA
65	3579	Kayla Klosterhoff	2:57:56	GA	United States	USA
66	131	Meseret Ali Basa	2:58:06	NY	United States	ETH
67	3582	Alexandra Ellis	2:58:08	LA	United States	USA
68	2546	Lauren Ross	2:58:12	OR	United States	USA
69	2349	Emma Kraft	2:58:12		Australia	AUS
70	747	Laura Heintz	2:58:25	NY	United States	USA
71	493	Mary Kate Bida	2:58:35	NY	United States	USA
72	2335	Anna Abdulova	2:58:38		Yemen	UKR
73	4675	Liz Stephen	2:58:40	UT	United States	USA
74	521	Wanwen Qi	2:58:53	CA	United States	USA
75	522	Ingrid Wells	2:59:01	NY	United States	USA
76	5548	Erin Chamberlin	2:59:07	MD	United States	USA
77	2437	Dina Kitayama	2:59:17	CA	United States	USA
78	505	Jennifer Donnelly	2:59:18	NY	United States	USA
79	512	Meghan Bongartz	2:59:30	NY	United States	USA
80	5621	Ashley Sanderson-Snyder	2:59:32	PA	United States	GBR
81	5373	Elizabeth Morris	2:59:36	PA	United States	USA
82	540	Jana Trenk	2:59:48	NY	United States	USA
83	500	Paige Yellen	2:59:50	NY	United States	USA
84	3880	Deirdre Dwyer	2:59:58	NY	United States	USA
85	12875	Carla Saez	3:00:20		Chile	CHI
86	8332	Ingrid Cleland	3:00:23		Australia	AUS
87	514	Nicole Green	3:00:33	WA	United States	USA
88	5256	Kelsey Braithwaite	3:00:33	UT	United States	USA
89	6439	Kathleen Stewart	3:00:37	TX	United States	USA
90	8339	Lisa Bjurstrom	3:00:47		Denmark	DEN
91	3848	Julie Hershey Beatty	3:00:52		Hong Kong	USA
92	510	Caroline Day	3:01:05	NJ	United States	USA
93	2365	Edwina McDowall	3:01:09		United Kingdom	GBR
94	4094	Kathrin Knuchel	3:01:18		Switzerland	SUI
95	15606	Stephanie Michea	3:01:37		France	FRA
96	5426	Sarah Mellea	3:01:51	NJ	United States	USA
97	511	Jessica Spar	3:01:52	NY	United States	USA
98	6442	Teresa Murphy	3:02:07		United Kingdom	IRL
99	7409	Maria Cabrera	3:02:16	FL	United States	USA
100	516	Julie Hartenbach	3:02:28	VA	United States	USA

Wheelchair

MEN
Place	Bib	Name	Time	State	Country	Citizenship
1	211	Daniel Romanchuk	1:36:21	MD	United States	USA
2	200	Marcel Hug	1:36:22		Switzerland	SUI
3	206	David Weir	1:36:23		United Kingdom	GBR
4	215	Aaron Pike	1:40:22	IL	United States	USA
5	201	Kurt Fearnley	1:40:23		Australia	AUS
6	207	Tomoki Suzuki	1:40:28		Japan	JPN
7	213	Jordi Madera Jimenez	1:41:13		Spain	ESP
8	212	Josh George	1:41:36	IL	United States	USA
9	208	Hiroyuki Yamamoto	1:45:15		Japan	JPN
10	210	Josh Cassidy	1:47:02		Canada	CAN
11	214	Simon Lawson	1:47:54		United Kingdom	GBR
12	204	Ernst van Dyk	1:51:09		South Africa	RSA
13	220	Fidel Aguilar	1:52:55		Mexico	MEX
14	203	Sho Watanabe	1:53:05		Japan	JPN
15	209	Rafael Botello	1:53:11		Spain	ESP
16	218	Luis Francisco Sanclemente	1:53:22		Colombia	COL
17	224	Tony Nogueira	1:56:14	NJ	United States	USA
18	221	Jose Pulido	2:02:05	GA	United States	USA
19	216	Krige Schabort	2:04:15	GA	United States	USA
20	217	Brian Siemann	2:05:34	IL	United States	USA
21	205	Masazumi Soejima	2:09:10		Japan	JPN
22	225	Steven Smith	2:09:16	WI	United States	USA
23	228	Matt Davis	2:19:38	KY	United States	USA
24	247	Ryan Porteous	2:49:43	CA	United States	USA
25	248	Rodger Krause	2:54:30	PA	United States	USA
26	227	Peter Hawkins	2:55:30	NY	United States	USA
27	249	Alex Chancuse	2:57:53		Ecuador	ECU
28	223	Glenn Hartrick	3:07:07	NJ	United States	USA
29	280	Ronald Polo	4:51:55		Venezuela	VEN
30	274	Harrison McKinstry	5:00:42	CT	United States	USA
31	245	Mohammed Abohassouneh	5:17:33	NJ	United States	USA
32	286	Antony Leonardi	6:39:57	BI	Italy	ITA
33	282	William Reilly	7:21:36	NY	United States	USA
WOMEN
Place	Bib	Name	Time	State	Country	Citizenship
1	250	Manuela Schar	1:50:27		Switzerland	SUI
2	251	Tatyana McFadden	1:50:48	MD	United States	USA
3	255	Lihong Zou	1:56:14		China	CHN
4	265	Eliza Ault-Connell	1:57:00		Australia	AUS
5	260	Margriet van Den Broek	1:57:30		Netherlands	NED
6	254	Madison de Rozario	1:58:06		Australia	AUS
7	253	Susannah Scaroni	1:59:55	IL	United States	USA
8	257	Sandra Graf	2:00:00		Switzerland	SUI
9	259	Katrina Gerhard	2:00:19	IL	United States	USA
10	264	Michelle Wheeler	2:06:10	PA	United States	USA
11	258	Christie Dawes	2:06:10		Australia	AUS
12	261	Aline dos Santos Rocha	2:06:10		Brazil	BRA
13	262	Arielle Rausin	2:06:13	FL	United States	USA
14	263	Jenna Fesemyer	2:11:22	IL	United States	USA
15	252	Amanda McGrory	2:17:13	IL	United States	USA
16	266	Eva Moral Pedrero	2:35:14		Spain	ESP
17	270	Nathalie Benoit	3:18:42		France	FRA
18	284	Sandy Dailey	3:22:25	MO	United States	USA
19	267	Emmanuelle Domon	3:32:33		Switzerland	SUI
20	269	Susan Katz	3:34:57	IL	United States	USA
21	273	Mercedes Gomez	4:03:56		Venezuela	VEN
22	271	Danielle Bo	4:47:20		Brazil	BRA
23	279	Melissa Platt	6:37:07	NJ	United States	USA