Obiri outsprinted Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey in the home stretch to win the famously difficult race.
Kenyan runner Hellen Obiri won the women’s division at the 2023 New York City Marathon on Sunday in two hours, 27 minutes and 23 seconds. The 33-year-old Obiri, who won the 2023 Boston Marathon, outsprinted Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey in the home stretch to win the famously difficult race that crosses into all of New York’s five boroughs.
Tokyo Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir threatened the mark in 2021 with her 2:22:39 and Lokedi ran a 2:23:23 for the win last year. Ethiopian runner , a course record. 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.
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