New York – Meb Keflezighi has become the first American man to win the New York City Marathon since 1982.
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Keflezighi, the 2004 Olympic silver medalist, earned his first major marathon title Sunday. Born in Eritrea, the 34-year-old became a U.S. citizen in 1998.
He was second in New York in 2004 and third in 2005. Keflezighi, wearing “USA on his chest, won in 2 hours, 9 minutes, 15 seconds.
Four-time Boston Marathon champ Robert Cheruiyot of Kenya was second. Morocco’s Jaouad Gharib finished third and American Ryan Hall was fourth. American Alberto Salazar won three straight NYC Marathons from 1980-82.
Derartu Tulu of Ethiopia was the women’s winner, with 41-year-old Russian Ludmila Petrova the runner-up for the second straight year.
Did someone born in the United States ever win? The guy from 1982 was born in Cuba.
How was the runners minyan?
The runers are making crazy all drivers
Bill Rodgers won it four consecutive years, 1976-1979.
He was American born.
how much money did he get?
thank you VIN for starting to post sports related news.
I hope this is the beginning of an official policy of reporting on all our local teams.
yankees, mets, giants, jets etc…
Meb Keflezighi. Wasn’t there a character by that name in the Li’l Abner comic strip? the little guy with the prepetual cloud over his head? I guess I’m dating myself.
We had several postings last night about the growing number of frumme yidden running in the marathon, including one rav from a frum shul. This is a very positive development and more shuls need to consider how to use sports to get people interested in physical fitness rather than sitting around the tish and fressing.
I took my wife and kids to central park to watch the last 1/2 mile. The crowds were huge. Some of the womens’ times were amazing. They were a great model for my daughter who spends most of her free time on the phone and internet.
There is a whole group of frum men who run daily. they have formed a group called the heimishe road runners; 6 of them ran in the nyc marathon today, they all train and run in marathons. the ones who didn’t run, came to give encouragement to their fellow runners and it was a huge kiddush hashem – they had banners with the name heimishe road runners………..way to go!! more people should get involved in these healthy pastimes and we should encourage our youth instead of encouraging passive, couch potato activities.
i dont know how any frum person can watch this things, its totally pritzus, and #11 took his kids there!??
Let’s see a 2nd or 3rd generation American born athlete win. Big deal that he became American; he wasn’t born here. He’s really just another African runner winning. With all of our science, we can’t win…
Chabad of Long Island City was there again giving out kosher Powerade to all the runners at their booth in front of their Chabad House- a HUGE kiddush Hashem!!