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Press Release - New York City Marathon - 11/1/15

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Stanley Biwott, Mary Keitany, Ernst Van Dyk, and Tatyana McFadden are 2015  
                  TCS New York City Marathon Champions

New York City - November 1, 2015 - The 2015 TCS New York City Marathon 
crowned four champions on Sunday, November 1, including Professional Men’s 
champion Stanley Biwott, Professional Women’s champion Mary Keitany, 
Professional Women’s Wheelchair champion Tatyana McFadden, and Professional 
Men’s Wheelchair champion Ernst Van Dyk.

Biwott, 29, of Kenya, won his first TCS New York City Marathon title and 
first Abbot World Marathon Majors race in a time of 2:10:34. After a group 
of 14 runners hit the half-marathon split in a tactical 1:06:49, Biwott 
surged late in the race on Central Park’s East Drive to pull away from 
runner-up Geoffrey Kamworor of Kenya and third-place finisher Lelisa Desisa 
of Ethiopia, winning by 14 seconds. Keitany, 33, of Kenya, successfully 
defended her title and became the first woman to do so in New York since 
Paula Radcliffe in 2008, winning by more than a minute with a time of 
2:24:25. After a pack of nine hit the halfway point in 1:12:56, Keitany 
broke away from runner up Aselefech Mergia and third-place finisher Tigist 
Tufa, both of Ethiopia, to win by a margin of more than one minute.

McFadden, 26, of the United States, led wire-to-wire to win the women’s 
wheelchair division in an event-record time of 1:43:04, shattering the 
previous record of 1:50:24 and capturing her third-consecutive Grand Slam 
of London, Boston, Chicago and New York Marathons in the same calendar 
year. Overall, this is her fourth win in the Big Apple. Van Dyk, 42, of 
South Africa, won the men’s wheelchair division in 1:30:54, his second win 
in New York and first since 2005. He outsprinted runner-up Josh George of 
the United States by one second with 200 meters to go.

Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya remains at the top of the men’s https://www.worldmarathonmajors.com Series IX standings with a total of 50 points, and Desisa 
moved into a tie for second with a total of 34 points. Keitany’s victory 
ties her for first place with 50 points in the women’s rankings with Mare 
Dibaba of Ethiopia. 



The http://www.nyrr.org/media-center/press-releases/worlds-top-professional-wheelchair-athletes-compete-in-2015-chicago-new-york-challenge, a professional wheelchair series
between the Bank of America Chicago Marathon and the TCS New York City 
Marathon as a prelude to the first-ever Abbott World Marathon Majors 
Wheelchair Series beginning at the 2016 Boston Marathon, was won by 
McFadden and Van Dyk with a total of 50 points and 29 points, respectively.





About the TCS New York City Marathon
The TCS New York City Marathon is the premier event of http://www.nyrr.org/media-center/our-history (NYRR) and the largest marathon in the world. Held annually on the 
first Sunday in November, the race features the world’s top professional 
athletes and a vast range of competitive, recreational, and charity 
runners. The race began in 1970 with just 127 entrants running four laps 
around Central Park, and expanded citywide in 1976. In 2014, a record 
50,530 runners from 130 countries toured New York City’s five boroughs, 
including the one-millionth finisher in the history of the event, starting 
on Staten Island at the foot of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and running 
through the neighborhoods of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, before ending 
in Manhattan at the iconic Central Park finish line. More than one million 
spectators line the city streets to cheer on the runners, while millions 
more watch the live television broadcast in the United States and around 
the world. The race is part of the Abbott World Marathon Majors, a series 
featuring the world’s top marathons—Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago, 
and New York—and crowning the top professional male and female marathoners 
in the world. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT 
services, consulting, and business solutions organization, is the premier 
partner of NYRR and the title sponsor of the TCS New York City Marathon. To 
learn more, visit the TCS New York City Marathon website at 
http://www.tcsnycmarathon.org/. 

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