Page 15 - aruba-today-20221107

A15
sports Monday 7 noveMber 2022
Chebet and Lokedi of Kenya win NYC Marathon races in debuts

By DOUG FEINBERG
AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Evans
Chebet of Kenya won the
New York City Marathon
men's race and Sharon
Lokedi of Kenya won the
women's race Sunday,
both of them making a
splash in their debuts.
Daniel Do Nascimento,
who had been leading
the entire men's race, col- Evans Chebet, of Kenya, leads the men's elite division runners Sharon Lokedi, of Kenya, crosses the finish line first in the wom-
lapsed 21 miles in. Chebet as they pass through the Bronx borough of New York during the en’s division of the New York City Marathon, Sunday, Nov. 6,
finished in 2 hours, 8 min- New York City Marathon, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022. 2022, in New York.
utes and 41 seconds, which Associated Press Associated Press
was 13 seconds ahead of Australia in 2006. Hug, who women's wheelchair race, cord. She beat runner-up ishing third in 2019.
second-place finisher Shu- also won the race last year, finishing in 1:42.43. That was Manuela Schar of Switzer- The 36-year-old Hug, nick-
ra Kitata of Ethiopia. earned $50,000 for best- 21 seconds better than the land by 2 1/2 minutes, and named the "The Silver Bul-
Do Nascimento got out to ing the course record. He old mark, which was held last year's winner, Madison let," has been on quite a
a fast start on a unseason- crossed the finish line more by Tatyana McFadden. de Rozario of Australia, fin- streak, winning four gold
ably warm day and led by than 2 minutes ahead of Scaroni, a 31-year-old from ished third. medals at the Tokyo Para-
nearly 2 minutes for most of second-place finisher Dan- Illinois, pulled away from Scaroni won the Chicago lympics last year as well as
the race. The Brazilian col- iel Romanchuk of Illinois. Su- the field early and also Marathon last month and the Tokyo, Berlin, London
lapsed at Mile 21, right be- sannah Scaroni also broke earned the bonus money was victorious for the first and Chicago Marathons in
fore he got back into Man- the course record in the for topping the course re- time in New York after fin- 2022.q
hattan, and was attended
to by medical profession-
als. A few miles earlier, he
had taken a quick 20-sec-
ond bathroom break.
Chebet, 33, pulled away
from the pack chasing
Do Nascimento as they
headed over the bridge
into Manhattan for the first
time. After Do Nascimen-
to's collapse, Chebet took
the lead and never was
threatened the rest of the
way. Chebet won the Bos-
ton Marathon earlier this
year.
It was Lokedi's first-ever
marathon and she finished
in 2 hours, 23 minutes and
23 seconds — just ahead
of Lonah Chemtai Salpeter
of Israel. The 28-year-old
Lokedi was in a tight race
before she pulled ahead
of Chemtai Salpeter in the
final two miles to win by
seven seconds and finish
about 50 seconds off the
course record.
An hour earlier, the men's
and women's wheelchair
races ended with course
records being broken.
Marcel Hug of Switzerland
was victorious in the men's
wheelchair race for the fifth
time, tying Kurt Fearnley for
most-ever victories in that
event. Hug finished the
26.2-mile course that goes
through all five boroughs
of New York in 1 hour, 25
minutes and 26 seconds to
break the previous mark of
1:29.22 set by Fearnley of