The US city exceeded the total number of this year’s London Marathon by almost three thousand people.
The 2025 New York City Marathon broke the world record for most finishers in the 26.2-mile race, with 59,226 crossing the line in the Big Apple.
This surpasses the number of 56,640 participants in April’s London Marathon. New York City held the record until earlier this year with 55,646 graduates.
More than 200,000 people entered this year’s New York City Marathon drawing (aka the ballot).
Of those who completed the 26.2-mile route, 31,927 (53.91%) were male and 27,156 (45.85%) were female, with 143 non-binary finishers.
In the elite fields, runners battled it out old-school, from Staten Island to Manhattan, where New York was notorious for not having pacemakers.
In the men’s race, Benson Kipruto edged out Alex Mutiso while Helen Obiri took the women’s course record.
Mutiso, winner of the 2024 London Marathon, looked set to chase down Kipruto in the final 100m of the race, but his compatriot rallied and they both crossed the line in 2:08:09.
A major marathon champion in Boston, Chicago and Tokyo, Kipruto won by just 0.16 of a second.
It was almost as close as battle got Alphonse Felix Simbu and Amanal Petros at the Tokyo World Championships in September.
Patrick Dever, in his marathon debut, finished just one second off the podium in 2:08:58 in New York. At the time, the 2021 British 5,000 meters and 2024 10,000 meters champion is tenth on Great Britain’s all-time list.
Eliud Kipchoge also achieved his goal of completing every major of the marathon. he had already run in London, Boston, Chicago, Berlin and Sydney, finishing 17th in 2:14:36. The two-time Olympic marathon champion then announced his intention to run seven marathons on as many continents (including Antarctica) over the next two years.
Meanwhile, Obiri regained her title and became the first female athlete to sub-2:20 at the New York City Marathon with a time of 2:19:51. The Kenyan also broke compatriot Margaret Okayo’s record of 2:22:31 in 2003.
Behind the three Kenyans on the podium, Fiona O’Keefe was fourth in 2:22:49. Countrywoman Annie Frisby followed in fifth, ahead of Sifan Hasan.
Jessica Warner-Judd, making her marathon debut, clocked 2:24:45 to finish seventh in the Big Apple. That mark also puts him ninth on the UK all-time list.
In the elite wheelchair field, Marcel Haag secured his seventh title in 1:30:16, with Susanna Scaroni back-to-back in 1:42:10.
