I am very, very happy,” said Desisa, a two-time Boston Marathon winner who had finished second in New York in 2014 and third in 2015 and 2017. “I (was) thinking this year to be a champion,” Desisa said. Keitany, second to American Shalane Flanagan in 2017 after three New York victories, returned to the top with a runaway performance. “It’s such an honour being the defending champion,” Flanagan said. The 20-year-old Romanchuk became the youngest New York winner and the first American champion in clocking an unofficial 1:36:21 to nip Hug by one second.

Source: Ethiopian News November 05, 2018 06:11 UTC