New York
Keitany won the race for the third straight time Sunday, pulling away with more than 10 miles to go and breezing home to the finish line in Central Park.
“Alone in the streets,” the 34-year-old Kenyan said.
Except for the cheering fans, of course, who packed the course to root on the record-setting 52,049 runners from 120 nations as they wound through all five of the city’s boroughs.
At 20, Ghebreslassie became the youngest men’s winner in this event. Alberto Salazar (1980) and Tom Fleming (1973) won as 22-year-olds.
Ghebreslassie was the first native of Eritrea to win the New York marathon. He finished his debut in 2:07:51.
“I’m really proud of it,” he said.
Keitany defended her title in 2:24:26 seconds, one second behind her time last year. Molly Huddle of the United States was third in 2:28:13 in her marathon debut.
Paris
It was his career-best eighth title this season, his 14th in Masters overall, and ended Isner’s bid for a first Masters title.
Murray, who officially replaces Novak Djokovic at the top of the rankings today, now leads Isner 8-0 in their career meetings, dating back to their first match at the Australian Open six years ago.
He recently beat him 6-1, 6-3 in the quarterfinals of the Erste Bank Open in Vienna, but this was a very different match and thoroughly contested by the big-serving American.
Las Vegas
Pampling holed a 30-foot birdie putt on the final hole at the TPC Summerlin that clinched the victory. He raised his right arm and thrust it when the ball was still another foot away from the cup. The 47-year-old Australian last won on the PGA Tour at Bay Hill in 2006.
Brooks Koepka closed with a 67 to finish second. Woodstock native Keegan Bradley shot a final-round 66 to finish tied for seventh, five shots off the pace.