Eliud Kipchoge, the former double Olympic marathon champion and two-time world-record holder, has said that Sunday’s New York Marathon will be his final one.

Steve Jones - The 1984 world record marathon holder at Chicago (2:08:05), 2025 also marks the 40th anniversary of the fastest marathon Jones ever ran, leading right from the start and running 2:07:13. A 1984 Olympian, Jones also decisively won the 1988 NYC Marathon.

From elite champions to first-time runners, the 2024 TCS New York City Marathon turned the five boroughs into a living showcase of endurance and human spirit. Held on November 3, 2024, the world’s largest marathon once again united Staten Island,

Benson Kipruto won the men’s race by three-hundredths of a second, and Hellen Obiri won the women’s race, obliterating the course record by more than two minutes.

Hellen Obiri is gearing up for the 2024 New York City Marathon set for November. The Kenyan Olympian relocated to the USA in 2022 for several reasons.

Chepng’etich won the marathon at the 2019 world championships in Qatar. She dropped out of the race at the 2021 Olympics and the 2022 World Athletics Championships, and she failed to qualify for last year’s Olympics, in Paris. In another high-profile ...