Marathon rocked by 'scary' mid-race collapse

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Kenyans Evans Chebet and Sharon Lokedi made immense splashes successful their New York City Marathon debuts.

Chebet won the men's contention and Lokedi the women's contention successful her first-ever marathon connected an unseasonably lukewarm day, with temperatures supra 20 degrees making it 1 of the hottest successful contention past since the marathon was moved to November successful 1986.

Chebet finished successful 2 hours, 8 minutes and 41 seconds, which was 13 seconds up of second-place finisher Shura Kitata of Ethiopia.

There was a scary infinitesimal successful the men's contention erstwhile Daniel Do Nascimento, who had been starring the full way, collapsed astir 10km from the decorativeness line. Race officials aboriginal confirmed that the 24-year-old was OK.

NYC marathon person collapses

The Brazilian ran the archetypal fractional of the contention successful a blistering 1:01.22, which enactment him 2 minutes up of the people grounds pace. He had been starring by astir 2 minutes for the archetypal 24km earlier helium started to dilatory down a bit.

Do Nascimento went down close earlier heading backmost into Manhattan and was rapidly attended to by aesculapian professionals. A fewer kilometres earlier, helium had taken a speedy 20-second bath interruption and had besides stopped to locomotion concisely for a fewer minutes.

Chebet saw Do Nascimento connected the crushed and said helium “felt atrocious for him, but had to proceed to race.”

“He knew that it was blistery and humid and (Do Nascimento) was going astatine a precocious pace,” Chebet said done a translator.

“He has a batch of acquisition [but] helium knew helium was going to surpass him."

Chebet, 33, pulled distant from the battalion erstwhile chasing Do Nascimento arsenic they headed implicit the span into Manhattan for the archetypal time. After Do Nascimento's collapse, Chebet took the pb and wasn't threatened the remainder of the way.

Chebet won the Boston Marathon earlier this year.

“Boston was really harder and it prepared him for the triumph for New York," the translator said for Chebet.

"He’s precise thankful.”

The triumph continued a drought for American men successful the contention - nary runner from the US has won since 2009. The Americans' apical hope, Galen Rupp, was successful the pursuit battalion earlier withdrawing from the contention close earlier the 30km mark.

It was Lokedi's first-ever marathon and she finished successful 2:23.23 — conscionable up of Lonah Chemtai Salpeter of Israel.

“I’m conscionable truthful blessed that I conscionable won, you know?!” Lokedi said.

“I’m truly excited, conscionable truthful blessed that I did it here. The radical retired there, the people was amazing, the cheers, everything. I’m conscionable thankful.”

The 28-year-old was successful a choky contention earlier she pulled up of Chemtai Salpeter successful the last 4 kilometres to triumph by 7 seconds and decorativeness astir 50 seconds disconnected the people record.

“I didn't expect to win, I expected to tally well,” Lokedi said.

“It was a bully result and I'm truly excited.”

An hr earlier, some the men's and women's wheelchair races ended with people records being broken.

Marcel Hug of Switzerland was victorious successful the men’s wheelchair contention for the 5th time, tying Australian Kurt Fearnley for the most-ever victories successful that event.

Hug finished the people successful 1:25.26 to interruption the erstwhile people of 1:29.22 acceptable by Fearnley successful 2006.

“The conditions were large for us. A tailwind successful the archetypal half. It was precise bully conditions. I deliberation that’s the reason,” Hug said of the grounds time.

“I didn’t cognize the time. My extremity was to spell arsenic accelerated arsenic imaginable and not absorption connected the time.”

Susannah Scaroni besides broke the people grounds successful the women's wheelchair race, finishing successful 1:42.43. That was 21 seconds amended than the aged mark, which was held by Tatyana McFadden.

Scaroni, a 31-year-old from Illinois, pulled distant from the tract early. Last year's winner, Australian Madison De Rozario finished 3rd successful a clip of 1:45:24.

The lukewarm upwind wasn't perfect for the 50,000 runners who started the 51st variation of the marathon, which was backmost to afloat capableness for the archetypal clip since the pandemic.

Race organisers said determination were 9 misting stations connected the people with plentifulness of water, bananas and vigor gels disposable on the way.

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