Kenya’s Mary Keitany Wins 2nd Straight NYC Marathon

Mary Keitany has won her second straight New York City Marathon to become the first woman to repeat since Paula Radcliffe in 2008.
The 33-year-old Kenyan defended her title Sunday in an unofficial time of 2 hours, 24 minutes, 25 seconds, beating Ethiopia’s Aselefech Mergia by 67 seconds.
Keitany pulled away around the 21-mile mark to become the eighth woman to win more than once in New York.
The two-time London Marathon champ had twice finished third in New York before breaking through last year when she won by just 3 seconds. That was her first marathon since 2012 because of the birth of her second child.
Ethiopia’s Tigist Tufa took third.