ING NYC Marathon

ING NYC Marathon

The ING New York City Marathon returned Sunday after canceling last year's race due to Hurricane Sandy.

The women's race had a breakaway of two runners from the start of the race. 
Buzunesh Deba and Tigist Tufa ran away from the pack in the beginning and built a three minute lead. Around 16 miles, Priscah Jeptoo started to pick up her pace and broke away from the chase pack. In six miles, Jeptoo was only 38 seconds behind the leader Deba, who dropped Tufa. A couple of minutes later, Jeptoo caught second place runner Tufa and passed her.  Around the 24th mile, Jeptoo pulled up to Deba and passed her. Jeptoo ran away and won the ING New York City Marathon in 2:25.07. Deba placed second in 2:25.56 and Jelena Prokopcuka was third in 2:27.14. The highest placing American woman was Adriana Nelson in 13th (2:35.05).

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On the men's side, Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya won his second ING New York City Marathon. Mutai won the marathon in 2:08.24. Finishing in second was Tsegaye Kebede in 2:09.16. By finishing second, Kebede won the 2012-2013 World Marathon Major title. Lusapho April was third in 2:09.45.

In the first half of the race, Americans Meb Keflezighi and Jason Hartmann were in the lead pack. Keflezighi fell back from the lead pack because of an injury to his knee. Keflezighi finished the race in 20th place (2:23.47). Hartmann ended up dropping out of the race at 20 miles. Ryan Vail was the highest placing American. Vail finished the marathon in 13th place in 2:13:23. Jeffrey Eggleston, another American, finished behind Vail in 14th place (2:16.35).

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In the women's wheelchair race history was made when 24-year-old American Tatyana McFadden won the grand slam of marathon titles. McFadden won the ING New York City Marathon in 1:59.13. McFadden won her fourth marathon title of the year. She won London, Boston and Chicago earlier this year. McFadden finished over three minutes ahead of second place finisher Wakako Tsuchida (2:02.54) and third place finisher Manuela Schar (2:03.53).

Marcel Hug was the winner of the close men's wheelchair race in 1:40.14. Second place finisher Ernst Van Dyk had the same time as Hug. Kurt Fearnley placed third in 1:40.15.