There was a changing of the guard at the 2024 New York City Marathon on Sunday.

While they were the defending champions in both women’s and men’s categories, Kenyan Sheila Chepkirui and Dutch Abdi Nageeye took home the championships.

Chepkirui needed to outlast reigning champion Hellen Obiri and she did so impressively:

1. Sheila Chepkirui, 2:24:35
2. Helen Obiri, 2:24:49
3. Vivian Cheruiyot, 2:25:21
4. Eunice Chumba, 2:25:58

On the men’s side, Nageeye edged out a dense field that included last year’s winner Tamirat Tola. Tola finished this year in fourth place:

1. Abdi Nageeye, 2:07:39
2. Evans Chebet, 2:07:45
3. Albert Korir, 2:08:00
4. Tamirat Tola, 2:08:12

The biggest story in this year’s race was whether the reigning champions would prevail again. Obiri has been in excellent form after winning the bronze medal in the women’s marathon at the Paris Olympics earlier this year, while Tola won gold in the men’s event.

Scott Cacciola between New York Times Tola also noted that he broke the New York Marathon course record last year with a time of 2:04:58. However, Albert Korir and Evans Chebet were also among the former champions in the field and, along with winner Nageeye, they finished ahead of Tola to prevent him from becoming the first man to become champion since 2013.

As for Obiri, he would be She became the women’s first repeat winner since Kenya’s Mary Keitany won three in a row from 2014-16.

Unfortunately, it was Chepkirui who crossed the finish line first on Sunday.

He completed a distance of 26.2 miles along with other finishers course took runners through all five boroughs of New York City.

The race started in Staten Island, crossed the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge into Brooklyn, crossed the Pulaski Bridge into Queens, crossed the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan, crossed the Madison Avenue Bridge into the Bronx, and then crossed over the Willis Avenue Bridge. He went to Manhattan. The finish line of the iconic Central Park.