Olympic medallists Hellen Obiri of Kenya and Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda received the United Airways NYC Half on Sunday, each crossing the end line with snug margins of victory. Obiri took the win in 1:07:21, breaking the course document set in 2022 by Ethiopian Senbere Teferi, who completed in second place on Sunday. Kiplimo used a fast closing 5K to drag away from compatriot Joshua Cheptegei and put up a closing time of 1:01:31. Canadians Natasha Wodak and Rory Linkletter additionally raced, ending in eighth and fifteenth, respectively.
Two-time world 5000m champion @hellen_obiri and world cross-country champion @jacobkiplimo2 produced dominant performances on the United Airways NYC Half on Sunday
🇪🇹’s Amedework Walelegn was a snug winner of the Seoul Worldwide Marathon in a 2️⃣:0️⃣5️⃣:2️⃣7️⃣ PB 👇
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) March 19, 2023
A brand new course document
For the second straight 12 months, the NYC Half noticed the ladies’s course document fall. In 2022, Teferi broke American Molly Huddle‘s 2016 course document with a successful time of 1:07:35. She got here again this 12 months seeking to defend her title and probably decrease the document much more, however Obiri refused to let that occur. Obiri owns the fifth-fastest half-marathon end in historical past with a PB of 1:04:22, and he or she confirmed the remainder of the ladies’s subject why she’s one of many all-time greats on Sunday.
Proper from the beginning of the race, it was clear that both Obiri or Teferi would take residence the win in New York. They opened up a sizeable lead early on and proceeded to run just about aspect by aspect for greater than half of the race. They coated the primary 5K in 15:50 (at which level they had been already 20 seconds forward of the next-closest runners) and handed by way of 10K at round 31:30. By 15K, nevertheless, Obiri had moved seven seconds forward of Teferi.
United airline NYC half marathon winners of the half marathon Helen Obiri 01:07:21 Jacob Kiplimo 01:01:31. pic.twitter.com/0Ei3Ar9eLQ
— Jimmy Ortiz (@JimmyOr40829381) March 19, 2023
Obiri’s lead solely continued to develop over the following 6K, and by the tip of the race, there was a 34-second hole between her and Teferi. She crossed the road in 1:07:21, taking the win and beating Teferi’s course document by 14 seconds. Teferi completed in second in 1:07:51, and Norway’s Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal crossed the road in third, properly again of the highest two in 1:09:53.
People Des Linden and Huddle additionally notched top-10 outcomes, ending in fifth and seventh. Wodak was simply behind Huddle in eighth place, posting a closing time of 1:12:33.
Kiplimo’s massive win
Kiplimo completed properly off his half-marathon world document of 57:31 on Sunday, however he nonetheless laid down a dominant efficiency. In contrast to the ladies’s race, by which Obiri and Teferi took management immediately, it took some time for the lads to kind out who would take the highest few spots. Chris Thompson of the U.Ok. began off scorching, working quarter-hour flat over the primary 5K and opening up a 14-second hole over Kiplimo and the chase group. That group of chasers featured Kiplimo, Cheptegei, Linkletter and 15 different males, all of whom had been inside two seconds of each other.
By 10K, Thompson’s lead had just about disappeared utterly, and he solely had a two second hole over the chase pack (which nonetheless consisted of 16 runners. Over the following 5K that Kiplimo, Cheptegei and Morocco’s Zouhair Talbi went to work, slowly pulling away from the remainder of the sphere. On the 15K checkpoint, they had been just a few seconds away from Kenya’s Edward Cheserek, and the beforehand tight-knight prime 20 had unfold out significantly.
Excellent news coming in as #Ugandan Jacob Kiplimo received the lads’s race on the #NYC Half Marathon with 1:01:31, beating his compatriot Joshua Cheptegei.
1. Jacob Kiplimo (UGA) – 1:01:31
2. Joshua Cheptegei (UGA) – 1:02:09We’re so happy with you.@GovUganda @joshuacheptege1#IGAD pic.twitter.com/uHGVzTbbOt
— Tusiime Lucas (@TusiimeLucas) March 19, 2023
Kiplimo made his transfer between 15K and 20K, dropping Cheptegei and Talbi and constructing a lead of near 30 seconds. He ultimately crossed the end line in 1:01:31, 38 seconds forward of Cheptegei, who held on for second place in 1:02:09. Talbi wasn’t far behind in third, stopping the clock in 1:02:18. The following three runners had an exciting battle for fourth place, with American Ben True in the end successful the dash to the road in 1:02:57. He was adopted carefully by Cheserek in fifth and the U.Ok.’s Andrew Butchart in sixth, each of whom recorded 1:02:58 finishes.
Linkletter completed in fifteenth place in a time of 1:04:21, crossing the road forward of Sixteenth-place Thompson and American Galen Rupp, who was seventeenth in 1:04:57. For full outcomes from the NYC Half, click on right here.