Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai won the marathon Sunday in New York in the men, improving in passing the record of the event, while the Ethiopian Firehiwot Dado has become the women's and signed her best personal time.
In 2 h 5 min 06 sec, Geoffrey Mutai, aged 30, won ahead of compatriot Emmanuel Mutai, winner of the 2011 London Marathon and already second in New York last year, which was relegated to more one minute (2:06, 28).
This success caps a great year for the Kenyan, who ran the fastest marathon in history in Boston in 2 h 03 min 02 sec, but his time had not been approved by the International Federation because of the specific the course.
After an hour and a half race, Geoffrey Mutai was eradicated by a group of ten runners by placing an acceleration to which none of his opponents could not respond. He completed the 42,195 km only 1 min 28 sec world record held by another Kenyan, Patrick Makau, from the Berlin Marathon in September.
"We all worked together and then it was up to me to give up. I tried to run my own race," said the winner.
In the women Firehiwot Dado of Ethiopia won the race to the wire, just four seconds ahead of compatriot Buzunesh Deba, who lives in New York and ran on a course she knows well.
Aged 27 years, Dado, who won in 2 hours 23:15, participated for the first time to the test in New York. She had already distinguished this year by winning for the third consecutive marathon in Rome.
Kenya's Mary Keitany, who won the London Marathon this year, has long been leading the race before being overtaken by the two Ethiopian a few hundred meters from the finish and finished third, as in 2010.
"When we were in focus (Keitany, ed), we said: Let's look + +. Working together, we managed to catch up," said Dado.
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