Defending champions Abdi Nageeye, Sheila Chepkirui, Daniel Romanchuk and Susannah Scaroni will return to defend their TCS New York City Marathon titles on November 2.
The quartet will be joined by nine additional former champions - Evans Chebet, Catherine Debrunner, Marcel Hug, Albert Korir, Sharon Lokedi, Tatyana McFadden, Hellen Obiri, Manuela Schär and David Weir – who are all looking to reclaim top spot on the podium.
US champions Hillary Bor, Joe Klecker, Fiona O’Keeffe, Emily Sisson and Amanda Vestri will lead the American interest.
Headlining the professional athlete field are the four defending champions in the men’s and women’s open and wheelchair divisions - Nageeye of the Netherlands, Chepkirui of Kenya and Romanchuk and Scaroni of the United States.
All four captured historic victories in 2024, with Nageeye becoming the first athlete from the Netherlands to win a men’s open division title. It was the Olympic silver medallist’s first AWMM victory.
The men’s open division will also include the 2021 and 2022 TCS New York City Marathon champions Albert Korir and Evans Chebet and feature the highly anticipated marathon debuts of US Olympians Bor and Klecker.
Chepkirui also celebrated a maiden Majors victory, leading a Kenyan sweep in the process, the first time since 1978 that a single country had won gold, silver and bronze in the women’s open division.
For the first time since 2018, the women’s open division will feature the three most recent TCS New York City Marathon champions, as compatriots Obiri, the 2023 winner, and Lokedi, the 2022 victor, join Chepkirui. The field also includes American stars O’Keeffe, Sisson, Molly Seidel and Susanna Sullivan.
Returning to the wheelchair division alongside Romanchuk and Scaroni – who completed an American sweep last year - are six-time TCS New York City Marathon champion and course record holder Marcel Hug, five-time champion Tatyana McFadden, three-time champion Manuela Schär, and champion and course record holder Catherine Debrunner.
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