{"id":21941,"date":"2025-11-03T01:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T01:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/great-britains-patrick-dever-finishes-fourth-in-new-york-marathon-as-benson-kipruto-wins\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T01:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T01:45:06","slug":"great-britains-patrick-dever-finishes-fourth-in-new-york-marathon-as-benson-kipruto-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/great-britains-patrick-dever-finishes-fourth-in-new-york-marathon-as-benson-kipruto-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Britain’s Patrick Dever finishes fourth in New York marathon as Benson Kipruto wins"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Great Britain’s Patrick Dever came an impressive fourth on his marathon debut in the men’s race in New York as Benson Kipruto beat Alexander Mutiso in a dramatic photo finish to claim victory. <\/b><\/p>\n

Preston Harrier Dever, who finished in a time of two hours eight minutes and 58 seconds, was part of a four-man group before Kipruto and Mutiso broke clear in the latter stages.<\/p>\n

Mutiso nearly overtook his fellow Kenyan on the line but Kipruto held him off to win as both were given a time of 2:08.09. Their compatriot Albert Korir was third in 2:08.57.<\/p>\n

Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge, who could have run his last marathon at elite level,, external<\/span><\/a> was 17th in 2:14.36. <\/p>\n

Hellen Obiri set a course record to win the women’s race in New York as the 35-year-old Kenyan claimed victory in 2:19.51.<\/p>\n

The previous record of 2:22.31 had been set by Margaret Okaya in 2003.<\/p>\n

Sharon Lokedi was second in 2:20.07 and fellow Kenyan Sheila Chepkirui was third in 2:20.24, while Great Britain’s Jessica Warner-Judd was seventh on her debut over the distance in 2:24.45. <\/p>\n

Great Britain’s David Weir came second (1:34.09) behind Switzerland’s Marcel Hug (1:30.16) in the men’s wheelchair race.<\/p>\n

Briton Eden Rainbow-Cooper (1:59.30) was seventh in the women’s wheelchair race, which was won by American Susannah Scaroni (1:42.10).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Great Britain’s Patrick Dever came an impressive fourth on his marathon debut in the men’s race in New York as Benson Kipruto beat Alexander Mutiso in a dramatic photo finish to claim victory. Preston Harrier Dever, who finished in a time of two hours eight minutes and 58 seconds, was part of a four-man group […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21943,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21941\/revisions\/21943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}