Overview
- The 26.2-mile race traverses all five boroughs on Nov. 2, with the wheelchair start at 8:00 a.m. ET, elite women at 8:35 a.m., and elite men at 9:05 a.m.
- WABC carries local coverage from 7 a.m., ESPN2 broadcasts the elite action 8–11:30 a.m. nationally, and ABC airs a 3–5 p.m. show, with streaming on ESPN+ and Fubo.
- Eliud Kipchoge and Sifan Hassan headline course debuts in a deep professional field that also includes multiple past New York champions.
- The prize purse is about $900,000, paying $100,000 to the men’s and women’s winners, with a $50,000 bonus for breaking the course record.
- NYRR details a year-long, 275-staff planning effort and anticipates cool, cloudy mid-50s conditions, as community stories range from ABC7’s GMA50 relay for Team for Kids to Ali Feller running while living with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer.