Evans Chebet completes Boston-NYC double; Sharon Lokedi wins in debut

Evans Chebet of Kenya received the New York Metropolis Marathon males’s race in his debut on the occasion, including the victory to his triumph on the Boston Marathon earlier this yr.

Chebet, 33, completed in 2 hours, 8 minutes, 41 seconds to turn into the primary man since Geoffrey Mutai in 2011 to comb the pair of prestigious 26.2-mile races. Shura Kitata of Ethiopia was second in 2:08:54, and Abdi Nageeye of the Netherlands was third in 2:10:31.

Sharon Lokedi of Kenya additionally received in her debut Sunday, ending her first-ever marathon in 2:23:23, simply forward of Lonah Chemtai Salpeter of Israel.

The 28-year-old Lokedi was in a good race earlier than she pulled forward of Chemtai Salpeter within the remaining two miles to win by seven seconds and end about 50 seconds off the course report.

An hour earlier, Marcel Hug of Switzerland was victorious within the males’s wheelchair race for the fifth time, shattering the course report and tying Kurt Fearnley for many victories in that occasion.

Hug completed the course that goes by all 5 boroughs of New York in 1:25:26 to interrupt the earlier mark of 1:29:22 set by Fearnley of Australia in 2006. Hug, who additionally received the race final yr, earned $50,000 for besting the course report. He crossed the end line greater than 2 minutes forward of second-place finisher Daniel Romanchuk of Illinois.

Susannah Scaroni additionally broke the course report within the girls’s wheelchair race, ending in 1:42.43. That was 21 seconds higher than the previous mark, which was held by Tatyana McFadden.

The Related Press contributed to this report.