Lelisa Desisa Wins Men’s Title at the 2018 New York City Marathon. Mary Keitany Wins the Women’s Race.
Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia won the men’s race in the New York City Marathon on Sunday, with a time of 2 hours 5 minutes and 59 seconds, surging ahead of two other runners near the finish in Central Park. Mary Keitany, the world-record holder in the women’s marathon, won the women’s race with a time of 2 hours 22 minutes and 48 seconds, her fourth victory in the event.
Desisa, 28, won his first New York marathon, defeating Shura Kitata, 22, also of Ethiopia, and Geoffrey Kamworor, 25, of Kenya, the defending champion.
The race, with more than 50,000 runners winding 26.2 miles through all five boroughs, unfolded in buttery fall sunshine on a cool, breezy morning that brought out thousands of spectators.
Keitany, 36, of Kenya, made her sixth appearance in the New York marathon.
She came in second last year but won in 2014, 2015 and 2016. She beat Vivian Cheruiyot, 35, of Kenya, who ran 2 hours 26 minutes 2 seconds and Shalane Flanagan, 37, of the United States, who came in third with a time of 2 hours 26 minutes 22 seconds.
Keitany was back where she feels most comfortable in the marathon’s women’s race — far, far ahead of the rest of the pack. She ran alone as soon as she hit Manhattan and only accelerated her pace as she ground toward the finish.
The top finishers among the women were chased by an all-star roster of American distance runners, who worked together to challenge Keitany but could not match the pace she threw down, as it dropped by nearly a minute per mile in the second half of the race.
Keitany finished second to Flanagan in the marathon last year. In her last victory, in 2016, she pulled away at the half marathon mark and beat her next challenger by 3 and a half minutes.
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