The New York Road Runners (NYRR) organizer of the New York City Marathon, has announced a lineup of world-class professional athletes that includes 14 former champions, 27 Olympians, and 19 Paralympians for its 2024 edition, one of 60 adult and youth races produced annually by the non-profit organization.

The extensive list of top athletes was unveiled Tuesday and includes 31 athletes from the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. They will run through the five boroughs on Sunday, November 3, New York City’s best day. They include Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia, Paris 2024 Olympic Marathon gold medalist and defending champion, Hellen Obiri of Kenya, and Marcel Hug, six-time TCS New York Marathon wheelchair champion.

Tola to defend the title

The men’s open division will be led by Tamirat Tola, who last year pulled away in the final 10 kilometers to finish in 2:04:58, breaking a 12-year-old race record. Tola won the Paris 2024 Olympic marathon with an Olympic record time of 2:06:26, just two weeks after being named an alternate member of the Ethiopian team. This is his second Olympic medal, the other coming in the 10,000 meters at the Rio 2016 Games. He also won marathon gold at the 2022 World Championships and silver at the 2017 World Championships.

“I’m excited to defend my title in New York, especially after breaking the Olympic marathon record,” Tola said. “The hilly course and the crowd in Paris prepared me well for the bridges and spectators in New York, where I may be able to go even faster this year.”

Belgium’s Bashir Abdi, a two-time Olympic and world championships medalist, will also be one of the athletes to watch. He was a silver medalist at the Paris 2024 Olympic marathon and won bronze medals in the marathon at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and the 2022 world championships.

They will be challenged by four accomplished Kenyans: Evans Chebet, 2022 New York City Marathon champion; Albert Korir, 2021 champion; Geoffrey Kamworor, 2019 and 2017 champion; and Abel Kipchumba, 2024 United Airlines NYC Half champion.

In his New York debut, Chebet became the eighth man in history to win Boston and New York in the same year and the first since 2011. He also won Boston in 2023 and has finished first or second in 13 marathons.

Kamworor, a former half-marathon world record holder, aims to become only the third athlete to win three men’s open division titles in New York. He has been on the podium in all four New York Marathon appearances. Korir’s only victory at the Abbott World Marathon Majors came in New York three years ago. Kipchumba’s debut will be in New York City.

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The U.S. contingent will be led by Conner Mantz and Clayton Young, training partners from Provo, Utah, who finished one-two in the U.S. Olympic marathon and eighth and ninth, respectively, in the Paris 2024 Olympic marathon. Mantz and Young are the seventh and eighth fastest U.S. marathoners in history. Elkanah Kibet, the top American in New York in 2021 and fourth in this year’s U.S. Olympic marathon trials, and CJ Albertson, the 50km world record holder and fifth in the U.S. Olympic marathon trials, will also be on the start line.

Hellen Obiri: There’s No Place Like New York

Kenya’s Obiri is a three-time Olympic medalist, a seven-time individual medalist at world championships, and the reigning TCS New York and Boston Marathon champions. Last year, with a great stride in the final 400 meters in Central Park, she became the first woman in 34 years to win Boston and New York in the same year. In April, she became the first woman since 2005 to repeat as Boston Marathon champion, and earlier this month, she won bronze at the Olympic marathon in Paris.

“There’s no place like New York, and I’m extremely ready to defend my title on what has become one of my favorite days of the year,” stated Obiri. “I’ve been riding really well on the roads in the U.S., and hopefully, I can have another good day once we enter the final stages in Central Park,” she stated.

Her compatriot Sharon Lokedi will return after finishing third last year and fourth in the Olympic marathon in Paris. In her marathon debut, Lokedi won the 2022 New York City Marathon and was runner-up in the 2024 Boston Marathon. The Kenyan delegation will also include 2010 New York champion Edna Kiplagat, four-time Olympic medalist Vivian Cheruiyot, and Sheila Chepkirui, who holds the personal best in the event.

Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba will make her debut in the race. Dibaba is one of the most successful long-distance runners in the world, with three Olympic gold medals and 16 world championship medals. Another Ethiopian, Senbere Teferi, two-time Olympian and three-time Mastercard New York Mini 10K champion, will accompany her.

Leading the U.S. contingent will be Dakotah Lindwurm, who was the top American at the Paris Olympic Marathon after placing third in the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials. She will be joined by 1,500-meter Olympic medalist and eight-time New Balance 5th Avenue Mile champion Jenny Simpson, 2018 Boston Marathon champion and two-time Olympian Des Linden, 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials champion Aliphine Tuliamuk, and 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials fourth-place finisher Jessica McClain.

Switzerland’s Marcel Hug, a six-time Paralympic champion, 12-time world champion, and world marathon record holder, will lead the men’s wheelchair division. He will be competing for his record-seventh New York City Marathon title.

Challenging Hug will be American Daniel Romanchuk, who 2018 became the first American and youngest athlete to win the men’s wheelchair division at the New York Marathon.

On the women’s side, four past winners will line up at the start line in the women’s wheelchair division on Staten Island: Switzerland’s Manuela Schär, Australia’s Madison de Rozario, and Americans Tatyana McFadden and Susannah Scaroni.

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