On Tuesday, organizers for the TCS New York Metropolis Marathon introduced its elite discipline for its 2024 version, to be held on November 3. That implies that the fields for all three fall 2024 Abbott World Marathon Majors at the moment are set as Chicago (October 13) introduced final month and Berlin (September 29) introduced final week.
The headliner in New York is Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola, who dominated the lads’s race final 12 months to win in a course file of two:04:58 and most not too long ago received the Olympic gold medal in Paris in an Olympic file of two:06:26. He’ll be up towards Olympic silver medalist Bashir Abdi of Belgium in addition to a trio of Kenyans who’ve run properly in New York prior to now: 2022 NYC champ Evans Chebet, 2021 NYC champ Albert Korir, and 2017/2019 NYC champ Geoffrey Kamworor.
The sector additionally boasts 4 of the highest 5 from February’s US Olympic Marathon Trials as Olympians Conner Mantz and Clayton Younger shall be joined by Elkanah Kibet and CJ Albertson. Albertson can be signed as much as run Chicago simply three weeks earlier.
On the ladies’s facet, Olympic bronze medalist Hellen Obiri is again and can try to change into the primary athlete, man or girl, to repeat as NYC Marathon champion since Mary Keitany in 2016. Olympic 4th placer Sharon Lokedi, who received NYC in 2022, figures to be her prime competitors. Olympic monitor gold medalists Vivian Cheruiyot and Tirunesh Dibaba are additionally entered; Cheruiyot has not run a World Marathon Main since 2020, whereas Dibaba has not run one since 2018.
2024 Olympian Dakotah Lindwurm, who completed twelfth in Paris, leads the US ladies’s discipline with 2020 Olympian Aliphine Tuliamuk, Des Linden, Jenny Simpson, and 2024 Trials 4th placer Jessica McClain additionally entered.
Full elite fields under with a 4 ideas on the races.
Males’s Open Division
Identify
Nation
Residence
Private Finest
Evans Chebet
KEN
Kapsabet, Kenya
2:03:00
Gabriel Geay
TAN
Arusha, Tanzania
2:03:00 NR
Bashir Abdi
BEL
Ghent, Belgium
2:03:36 NR
Tamirat Tola
ETH
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2:03:39
Geoffrey Kamworor
KEN
Kaptagat, Kenya
2:04:23
Abdi Nageeye
NED
Nijmegen, Netherlands
2:04:45 NR
Addisu Gobena
ETH
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2:05:01
Abel Kipchumba
KEN
Iten, Kenya
2:06:49
Albert Korir
KEN
Kapkitony, Kenya
2:06:57
Conner Mantz
USA
Provo, Utah
2:07:47
Clayton Younger
USA
Provo, Utah
2:08:00
Rory Linkletter
CAN
Flagstaff, Ariz.
2:08:01
Callum Hawkins
GBR
Elderslie, Scotland
2:08:14
Ser-Od Bat-Ochir
MON
Osaka, Japan
2:08:50 NR
Elkanah Kibet
USA
Colorado Springs, Colo.
2:09:07
Noah Droddy
USA
Boulder, Colo.
2:09:09
Jonny Mellor
GBR
Manchester, England
2:09:09
Jared Ward
USA
Mapleton, Utah
2:09:25
Colin Bennie
USA
San Francisco
2:09:38
Futsum Zienasellassie
USA
Flagstaff, Ariz.
2:09:40
CJ Albertson
USA
Fresno, Calif.
2:09:53
Nico Montanez
USA
Mammoth Lakes, Calif.
2:09:55
Yuma Morii
JPN
Osaka, Japan
2:09:59
Jake Riley
USA
Boulder, Colo.
2:10:02
Teshome Mekonen
USA
Colorado Springs, Colo.
2:10:16
Wesley Kiptoo
KEN
Flagstaff, Ariz.
2:10:28
Joel Reichow
USA
White Bear Lake, Minn.
2:10:37
Josh Izewski
USA
Boone, N.C.
2:11:09
Frank Lara
USA
Boulder, Colo.
2:11:32
Luke Cadwell
GBR
Boulder, Colo.
2:11:33
Harbert Okuti
UGA
New Rochelle, N.Y.
2:13:01
Jonny Phillips
USA
Brookline, Mass.
2:14:11
Ryan Eiler
USA
Boston
2:14:22
Ryan Ford
USA
Boone, N.C.
Debut
Ladies’s Open Division
Identify
Nation
Residence
Private Finest
Sheila Chepkirui
KEN
Kericho, Kenya
2:17:29
Tirunesh Dibaba
ETH
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2:17:56
Vivian Cheruiyot
KEN
Eldoret, Kenya
2:18:31
Senbere Teferi
ETH
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2:19:21
Dera Dida
ETH
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2:19:24
Edna Kiplagat
KEN
Longmont, Colo.
2:19:50
Eunice Chumba
BRN
Eldoret, Kenya
2:20:02 NR
Hellen Obiri
KEN
Boulder, Colo.
2:21:38
Des Linden
USA
Charlevoix, Mich.
2:22:38
Sharon Lokedi
KEN
Flagstaff, Ariz.
2:22:45
Fatima Gardadi
MAR
Marrakesh, Morocco
2:24:12
Kellyn Taylor
USA
Flagstaff, Ariz.
2:24:29
Fabienne Schlumpf
SUI
Wetzikon, Switzerland
2:24:30 NR
Aliphine Tuliamuk
USA
Flagstaff, Ariz.
2:24:37
Dakotah Lindwurm
USA
Burnsville, Minn.
2:24:40
Lily Partridge
GBR
Manchester, England
2:25:12
Jessica McClain
USA
Scottsdale, Ariz.
2:25:46
Tristin Van Ord
USA
Boone, N.C.
2:25:58
Khishigasaikhan Galbadrakh
MON
Osaka, Japan
2:26:32
Maggie Montoya
USA
Boulder, Colo.
2:28:07
Katja Goldring
USA
Flagstaff, Ariz.
2:29:01
Savannah Berry
USA
Orem, Utah
2:29:13
Jessa Hanson
USA
Flagstaff, Ariz.
2:31:02
Beverly Ramos
PUR
San Juan, Puerto Rico
2:31:10
Jenny Simpson
USA
Boulder, Colo.
2:31:39
Carrie (Verdon) Ellwood
USA
Boulder, Colo.
2:31:54
Sarah Reiter
USA
Hood River, Ore.
2:31:58
Briana Boehmer
USA
Boulder, Colo.
2:33:20
Lucy Dobbs
USA
Indianapolis
2:36:33
Holly Clarke
USA
San Francisco
2:36:52
Aileen Barry
USA
Manhasset, N.Y.
2:39:48
Ana Johnson
USA
Bronx, N.Y.
2:41:16
1) The lads’s race ought to be very enjoyable
If you happen to’re a distance fan — and because you’re studying LetsRun.com proper now, it’s a protected wager that you’re — you have to be pumped for the lads’s race in NYC. Initially, NYC landed the Olympic champ, Tamirat Tola. How massive of a deal is that? That is the primary time in 24 years that the lads’s Olympic champ has lined up for a fall marathon after successful the Olympics. It actually helps that Tola is the defending champ in NYC, which implies the New York Highway Runners have probably been courting him for months.
There’s some good depth behind Tola as properly. Bashir Abdi is the Olympic silver medalist, Albert Korir all the time runs properly in New York (2nd, 1st, seventh, 2nd the final 4 years), and Geoffrey Kamworor is a two-time NYC champ. The query with Kamworor is his well being. He ran a pb in his final marathon (2:04:23 for 2nd at 2023 London) however withdrew from NYC final fall and London this spring as a consequence of harm.
However essentially the most thrilling challenger to Tola is Evans Chebet. This time final 12 months, Chebet was driving a three-race win streak (2022 Boston, 2022 NYC, 2023 Boston) and was among the many Olympic favorites. However he missed NYC final fall as a consequence of an Achilles harm and although he ran properly in his return this spring (third in Boston in 2:07:22), it was not sufficient to place him on the Kenyan crew for Paris.
Now Chebet will get his crack on the Olympic champion, and there may be greater than only a NYC Marathon title on the road. We’ve additionally received the talk about who’s the best marathoner on this planet. Eliud Kipchoge is (lastly) declining and might now not be within the dialogue given his latest monitor file. Neither, sadly, can Kipchoge’s inheritor obvious, world file holder Kelvin Kiptum, who was killed in a automotive accident in February. So who’s #1?
Tola has a robust argument given his Olympic win and CR in NYC final fall. So does the person Tola changed in Paris, Sisay Lemma, who received Valencia and Boston in his final two races however missed the Olympics as a consequence of harm. Chebet has not received a race in 16 months, but when he takes down Tola in NYC, out of the blue he’s proper again within the dialog.
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2) Do Conner Mantz & Clayton Younger have something left this 12 months?
Making the Olympic crew is an effective way to spice up your profession earnings. Main marathons, street races, talking gigs — you might be extra engaging to all of them if they will plaster the phrase “Olympian” in entrance of your title. However it’s an train in delayed gratification. Marathoners make a large chunk of earnings from look charges, and America’s prime two marathoners, Conner Mantz and Clayton Younger obtained no look charges for both of their final two marathons, the Olympic Trials in February or the Olympics in August.
Now it’s time to begin cashing in. For Mantz and Younger, NYC shall be their fourth marathon within the final 13 months (2023 Chicago, 2024 Olympic Trials, 2024 Olympics, 2024 NYC) — in all probability greater than they’d like. However each males have run very properly in every of the earlier three, and even when NYC doesn’t go properly, they’ll spend the whole weekend being feted for his or her Olympic accomplishments and can go away city with a really good (and well-earned) look charge. Is sensible to provide it a go.
3) The place is Scott Fauble?
Scott Fauble was not on the beginning record for NYC and has not been introduced for some other fall marathon to this point, which has some on the LetsRun.com messageboard inquisitive about his future. Fauble has DNF’d his final two marathons (2023 Berlin, 2024 Olympic Trials) as a consequence of fueling points, and earlier than the Olympic Trials in February admitted that he probably wouldn’t be persevering with by to the 2028 Olympic Trials.
“4 years is a very long time,” mentioned Fauble, who turns 33 in November. “I’m spending about half of the 12 months away from my spouse after I’m coaching in Boulder and I don’t know that that’s sustainable for an additional 4 years.”
What does the long run maintain for Fauble? We’ll have to attend a bit longer to seek out out. When contacted for this story, Fauble instructed LetsRun.com he was not but able to announce his fall plans.
4) Tirunesh Dibaba and Vivian Cheruiyot are operating a marathon?
I’ll admit I used to be stunned to see Tirunesh Dibaba and Vivian Cheruiyot‘s names as a part of the NYC press launch. Dibaba and Cheruiyot operating a significant marathon. In 2024? I felt just like the Robin Williams Jumanji meme.
Dibaba and Cheruiyot, in fact, are all-time distance legends. Dibaba received eight international titles on the monitor and the 2017 Chicago Marathon. Cheruiyot received 5 international titles on the monitor and the 2018 London Marathon. However it has been some time since both one was related on the worldwide distance scene.
Dibaba is 38 however has not raced a marathon since 2018, giving delivery twice since then (in January 2020 and December 2021). Her most up-to-date outcome was a 31:04 10k in Madrid in June. Cheruiyot, 40, final ran a marathon in April, a 2:21 for 4th in Paris, however earlier than that she had not run a marathon since DNFing London in 2020 (she additionally gave delivery to a daughter, Ariel, in 2021).
Do both of them have something left at this stage of their careers? We’ll discover out on November 3.
