First marathon, first place: a Swede debuts, a Kenyan reigns, and 60,000 runners fill New York

Andreas Almgren had never raced 26.2 miles. On Sunday in New York, the 31-year-old Swede broke away in the final mile to win the New York City Marathon in 2:06:01 — the third-fastest winning time in the race's history. In the women's race, Kenya's Sheila Chepkirui, 35, surged clear in the last 150 metres to win her second New York title in 2:24:36, with American Jessica McClain passing defending champion Hellen Obiri in the final strides for second — the first US woman on the podium since 2018. Nearly 60,000 runners, the most ever, filled the five boroughs for the 50th five-borough running of the race, almost half of them women; in 1976, the field held just 88 women.