On Thursday, the New York Highway Runners (NYRR) introduced the sphere for the 2024 NYC Half on March 17, which can function Canadian marathoners Malindi Elmore and Tristan Woodfine alongside 11 Olympians and one of many world’s most adorned distance runners, Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele.
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This shall be Bekele’s first time on the NYC Half and solely his second profession street race in New York Metropolis. (He completed sixth on the TCS New York Metropolis Marathon in 2021.) Bekele is without doubt one of the most prolific runners of all time, having been on the high of the game for greater than twenty years. His private greatest of two:01:41 from the 2019 Berlin Marathon nonetheless stands because the Ethiopian nationwide file, and makes him the third-fastest marathoner in historical past.
Bekele will headline the boys’s race alongside high U.S. marathoners Conner Mantz and Clayton Younger, who’re contemporary off ending first and second, respectively, on the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 3. Additionally becoming a member of the boys’s discipline is Cobden, Ont.’s Woodfine, who’s coming off a powerful 2:10:39 private greatest and sixth-place end on the 2024 Houston Marathon. The 30-year-old is at present coaching for the 2024 Boston Marathon, the place he hopes to put within the high 5 to doubtlessly safe a spot on the Canadian Olympic marathon group in Paris.
The ladies’s elite discipline shall be stuffed with established distance runners, together with Olympians Des Linden, Jenny Simpson, Edna Kiplagat and Elmore, who was lately nominated to her third Olympic Video games. Elmore secured her spot on the Canadian group final fall with a 2:23:30 clocking on the 2023 Berlin Marathon, the second-fastest Canadian girls’s marathon time. Like Woodfine, Elmore can be coaching for the 2024 Boston Marathon, which she hopes will put together her for the hilly marathon course on the 2024 Paris Olympics, which is anticipated to be the hilliest Olympic marathon course thus far.
The lads’s and ladies’s elite discipline will lead greater than 25,000 runners through the United Airways NYC Half, the world’s premier half marathon, which runs from Brooklyn to Manhattan, passing historic landmarks, numerous neighbourhoods and sweeping views of The Massive Apple earlier than ending in the midst of Central Park.
