52,000 runners entered the race.
First place winner…….GEOFFREY KAMWOROR…….age 24……from Kenya took 1st place in the men’s division.
Second place winner…….WILSON KIPSANG.……from Kenya……… was the winner last year at age 20.
Third place winner……..LELISA DESISA……age 27……from Ethiopia
It was exciting to watch the RACE and hundreds of thousands of NEW YORKERS lined the street……cheering on the marathoners.
SHALANE FLANIGAN………..of the USA……won first place in the NYC MARATHON 2017………..the first American woman to win since 1977.
The second place winner was Mary Keiting and Mamitu Daska of Ethiopia came in third.
MARCEL HUG……….. from Switzerland……….. won the Men’s Handicap Race…..today in the NYC Marathon 2017……in his push-rim wheelchair.
MANUELA SCHAR…….from Switzerland………won the women’s push-rim wheelchair race.
The handicap racers finished the race in from of my apartment. GARBAGE TRUCKS blocked the entrance to the Dakota Apartments…………where Yoko Ono lives and where John Lennon was murdered on December 8, 1980.
