McCormack ran her New York City Marathon debut seven weeks after finishing ninth in the World Championships marathon in Tokyo, where she ran 2:30:16 in oppressive heat. She posted the fifth quickest time of her career on a challenging, rolling New York course, aiming for her personal best of 2:23:46 and passing 10km in 33:56 and halfway in 1:12:05. By 30km she moved to 11th and cracked the top 10 arriving in Central Park. Hellen Obiri won in a course record 2:19:51 as Kenyans swept the podium. McCormack is a mother of three from Wicklow, the most-capped Irish female athlete, a five-time Olympian who can extend that record to six in 2028. The men's race produced a photo-finish with Benson Kipruto and Alexander Mutiso both timed 2:08:09.
"Just seven weeks on from her ninth-place finish in the World Championships marathon in Tokyo, where she ran 2:30:16 in oppressive heat, McCormack clocked the fifth quickest time of her career in what was her New York City Marathon debut. Victory went to Hellen Obiri in a course record of 2:19:51, with compatriots Sharon Lokedi (2:20:07) and Sheila Chepkirui (2:20:24) rounding out a Kenyan sweep of the podium."
"With cool, calm, sunny conditions in the Big Apple, it was a good day to run fast, although New York is a notoriously difficult course to produce quick times given its rolling hills. McCormack nonetheless set out with her personal best of 2:23:46 clearly in mind, passing 10km on pace in 33:56 and she was 13th when she hit halfway in 1:12:05. By 30km she had moved up to 11th and she cracked the top-10 in the closing kilometres as she arrived in Central Park."
""Usually I'm like, 'I have to come back again to redeem myself,' whereas this time, I don't really feel like that," she said in Tokyo. "I picked off as many people as I could. Everybody I could see in front of me, I think I caught so there wasn't a whole lot more I could do.""
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