Albert Korir finished second in 2:06:57 and Shura Kitata was third in 2:07:11.
Ethiopian runner Tamirat Tola won the men’s division at the 2023 New York City Marathon on Sunday in two hours, four minutes and 58 seconds, a course record. The 32-year-old and 2022 world champion distanced himself from the field to win his first World Major Marathon in the grueling race that spans New York’s five boroughs. Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia is the men's open-division winner, setting a course-record time of 2:04:58.
Kenyan runner Hellen Obiri won the women’s race Sunday in 2:27:23. Switzerland’s Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner won the men’s and women’s wheelchair events. Hug’s win was his third straight and sixth overall in New York — he finished in 1:25:29, just three seconds shy of his course record — while Debrunner set a women’s course record with her time of 1:39:32. Tola’s win came in the sixth and final World Marathon Major of the year.
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