New York, February 22, 2024 – The New York Highway Runners (NYRR) has introduced that the 2024 United Airways NYC Half, going down Sunday, March 17, will characteristic 11 Olympians, seven Paralympians, and several other extra skilled athletes who’ve their eyes on the Paris 2024 Video games this summer time.
Conner Mantz and Clayton Younger, recent off ending first and second, respectively, on the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, will headline the boys’s open division on the United Airways NYC Half, whereas two-time U.S. Olympian Hillary Bor will race 13.1 miles for the primary time in his profession and the world’s most-decorated distance runner, Kenenisa Bekele, will return to New York for his second NYRR occasion. The ladies’s open division can be chock-full of established contenders, together with Olympians Des Linden, Jenny Simpson, Edna Kiplagat, Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal, and Malindi Elmore, along with World Championships marathon bronze medalist Fatima Gardadi.
These athletes will lead greater than 25,000 runners throughout the United Airways NYC Half, the world’s premier half marathon, organized by NYRR, which runs from Brooklyn to Manhattan, passing historic landmarks, various neighborhoods, and sweeping views of the town alongside the best way earlier than ending in Central Park.
Males’s Open Division
Mantz and Younger, coaching companions from Provo, Utah, will line up collectively initially in New York lower than two months after ending one-two on the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in Orlando and qualifying for the Paris 2024 Video games. Mantz was fifth in his first United Airways NYC Half in 2022, and final 12 months turned the seventh-fastest American marathoner in historical past when operating 2:07:47 to complete sixth on the Chicago Marathon. Younger completed proper behind him in seventh in 2:08:00 and can be making his United Airways NYC Half debut.
“I feel I’ve a whole lot of room to enhance within the halfs,” Mantz mentioned on the newest episode of NYRR Set the Tempo, Feb. 22, 2024. “I wish to get these halfs in so I can have extra confidence heading into Paris. I ran [the United Airlines NYC Half] in 2022…which was most likely one of the particular experiences and it was an enormous studying [experience]. It was most likely my first race the place I used to be competing in opposition to a giant worldwide discipline…so it was a very good expertise for me, and I feel it’s one I wish to repeat and take what I’ve realized within the final two years and use it.”
Ethiopia’s Bekele, a four-time Olympic medalist, 16-time world champion, and the third-fastest marathoner in historical past, will problem the American duo, racing with NYRR for the second time after ending sixth on the 2021 TCS New York Metropolis Marathon. He can be joined on the beginning line by Kenya’s Abel Kipchumba, the reigning champion of the B.A.A. Boston Half Marathon who owns one of many top-10 half-marathon occasions in historical past.
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Morocco’s Zouhair Talbi will return to the occasion after taking third in his United Airways NYC Half debut final 12 months, which he known as “the race of his life.” Since then, he completed fifth on the Boston Marathon and broke the Houston Marathon course document in January. Tanzanian Olympian and marathon record-holder Gabriel Geay, who was the runner-up finally 12 months’s Boston Marathon, will race the United Airways NYC Half for the primary time.
An American contender to observe can be Hillary Bor, a two-time U.S. Olympian and five-time nationwide champion who can be making his half-marathon debut. Bor broke the 40-year-old American 10-mile document on the USATF 10 Mile Highway Championships final 12 months. Additionally toeing the road can be Reed Fischer, who has completed within the prime 10 on the final two editions of the race and is coming off a top-10 end on the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials.
Ladies’s Open DivisionTwo-time U.S. Olympian and 2018 Boston Marathon champion Linden will return as the highest American finisher from final 12 months’s race, having just lately completed eleventh on the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials. Olympic and World Championships medalist Simpson will make her United Airways NYC Half debut; however she isn’t any stranger to NYRR races as an eight-time winner of the New Steadiness fifth Avenue Mile.
Kenyans Gladys Chepkurui, the reigning Tokyo Half Marathon champion, and Cynthia Limo, a World Athletics Championships half-marathon medalist, have the 2 quickest occasions within the ladies’s open division. They are going to be joined by one other Kenyan, Kiplagat, who has received the World Athletics Championships marathon, TCS New York Metropolis Marathon, Boston Marathon, and London Marathon, and can be seeking her first United Airways NYC Half title, having completed because the runner-up in 2011. Three-time third-place finisher Grøvdal of Norway, 2023 World Athletics Championships marathon bronze medalist Gardadi of Morocco, and two-time Olympian Elmore of Canada will even toe the road as worldwide podium contenders.
Lindsay Flanagan and Annie Frisbie, each of whom completed within the prime 10 on the 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, will even be ones to observe.
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The United Airways NYC Half ladies’s open and wheelchair division skilled athlete fields are offered by Mastercard.
The United Airways NYC Half, one in all 60 grownup and youth races NYRR organizes yearly, can be coated domestically within the tri-state space by ABC New York, Channel 7 with stay information cut-ins between 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Moreover, the 4 skilled fields can be coated by a livestream, distributed internationally from NYRR’s digital channels and abc7ny.com, starting at 7:00 a.m. ET.
Skilled Athlete Area – Males’s Open Division
Title
Nation
Residence
Private Finest
Abel Kipchumba
KEN
Iten, KEN
58:07 (Valencia, 2021)
Gabriel Geay
TAN
Babati, TAN
59:42 (Houston, 2020)
Zerei Kbrom
NOR
Stavanger, NOR
1:00:01 (Copenhagen, 2022)
Kenenisa Bekele
ETH
Addis Ababa, ETH
1:00:22 (London, 2020)
Conner Mantz
USA
Provo, Utah
1:00:55 (Hardeeville, S.C., 2021)
Zouhair Talbi
MAR
Colorado Springs, Colo.
1:01:08 (Houston, 2023)
Tomonori Yamaguchi
JPN
Tokyo
1:01:16 (Ageo, 2023)
Clayton Younger
USA
Provo, Utah
1:01:18 (Hardeeville, S.C., 2021)
Yemane Haileselassie
ERI
Flagstaff, Ariz.
1:01:24 (Houston, 2024)
Shadrack Biwott
USA
Folsom, Calif.
1:01:25 (San Diego, 2014)
Reed Fischer
USA
Boulder, Colo.
1:01:37 (Houston, 2020)
David Nilsson
SWE
Stockholm, SWE
1:01:40 (Gdynia, POL, 2020)
Taishi Ito
JPN
Tokyo
1:01:50 (Marugame, JPN, 2023)
Rei Matsunaga
JPN
Tokyo
1:01:56 (Ageo, 2023)
Fernando Cabada
USA
Boulder, Colo.
1:02:00 (Houston, 2014)
Filmon Ande
ERI
Flagstaff, Ariz.
1:02:20 (Philadelphia, 2023)
Matt Baxter
NZL
Flagstaff, Ariz.
1:02:38 (San Jose, 2021)
Tristan Woodfine
CAN
Ontario, CAN
1:02:40 (Boston, 2023)
Yenew Alamirew Getahun
ETH
Bronx
1:03:05 (RBC Brooklyn, 2023)
Tim McGowan
USA
Boston
1:03:54 (Philadelphia, 2023)
Eduardo Garcia
ISV
Greenville, S.C.
1:03:59 NR (Houston, 2024)
Desta Utura Gedo
ETH
New York
1:04:28 (Barcelona, 2023)
Aaron Breene
USA
Wilton, Conn.
1:08:32 (Valley Cottage, N.Y., 2023)
Hillary Bor
USA
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Debut
NR = Nationwide Document
Skilled Athlete Area – Ladies’s Open Division
Title
Nation
Residence
Private Finest
Gladys Chepkurui
KEN
Iten, KEN
1:05:46 (Barcelona, 2022)
Cynthia Limo
KEN
Iten, KEN
1:06:04 (Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE, 2016)
Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal
NOR
Oslo, NOR
1:07:34 (Copenhagen, 2023)
Edna Kiplagat
KEN
Longmont, Colo.
1:07:52 (Houston, 2024)
Fabienne Schlumpf
SUI
Wetzikon, SUI
1:08:27 NR (Dresden, 2021)
Diane Van Es
NED
Rotterdam, NED
1:09:31 (Barcelona, 2024)
Lindsay Flanagan
USA
Boulder, Colo.
1:09:37 (Houston, 2020)
Jackie Gaughan
USA
Boston
1:10:01 (Houston, 2024)
Malindi Elmore
CAN
Kelowna, CAN
1:10:11 (Gifu, JPN, 2023)
Annie Frisbie
USA
Minneapolis, Minn.
1:10:14 (NYC Half, 2022)
Fatima Gardadi
MAR
Rabat, MAR
1:10:28 (Tamensa, MAR, 2021)
Desiree Linden
USA
Charlevoix, Mich.
1:10:34 (Naples, Fla., 2011)
Jenny Simpson
USA
Boulder, Colo.
1:10:35 (Houston, 2023)
Fantu Zewude Jifar
ETH
New York
1:13:37 (Krakow, POL, 2019)
Marie-Ange Brumelot
FRA
Shokan, N.Y.
1:13:46 (RBC Brooklyn, 2022)
Sarah Ann Sibert
USA
New York
1:13:54 (Valley Cottage, N.Y., 2023)
Demitu Hawas Lenjiso
ETH
New York
1:14:16 (Hawassa, ETH, 2022)
Alexandra Conway
USA
New York
1:15:05 (Valley Cottage, N.Y., 2023)
Gabrielle Yatauro
USA
New York
1:15:59 (RBC Brooklyn, 2022)
Leigh Anne Sharek
USA
Brooklyn
1:16:17 (RBC Brooklyn, 2023)
Melissa Reed
USA
New York
1:16:22 (Valley Cottage, N.Y., 2023)
Ana Johnson
USA
Metropolis Island, N.Y.
1:17:22 (RBC Brooklyn, 2019)
Alyssa Salese
USA
Huntington, N.Y.
1:17:26 (RBC Brooklyn, 2022)
Aileen Barry
USA
Manhasset, N.Y.
1:17:41 (RBC Brooklyn, 2023)
Madeleine King
USA
New York
1:17:57 (Philadelphia, 2023)
Leila Mantilla
USA
New York
1:18:20 (Valley Cottage, N.Y., 2023)
Shannon McCarthy
USA
Hoboken, N.J.
1:18:26 (RBC Brooklyn, 2023)
Emily Royston
USA
New York
1:18:30 (NYC Half, 2023)
Alana Levy
USA
New York
1:19:57 (Sacramento, 2023)
NR = Nationwide Document
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NYRR’s mission is to assist and encourage individuals by means of operating. Since 1958, New York Highway Runners has grown from a neighborhood operating membership to the world’s premier group operating group. NYRR’s dedication to New York Metropolis’s 5 boroughs options races, digital races, group occasions, free youth operating initiatives and faculty applications, the NYRR RUNCENTER that includes the New Steadiness Run Hub, and coaching sources that present a whole bunch of 1000’s of individuals annually with the motivation, know-how, and alternative to Run for Life. NYRR’s premier occasion is the TCS New York Metropolis Marathon. Held yearly on the primary Sunday in November, the race encompasses a broad inhabitants of runners, from the world’s prime skilled athletes to an enormous vary of aggressive, leisure, and charity runners. To be taught extra, go to www.nyrr.org.
