NYRR announces stacked pro athlete field for 2025 TCS New York City Marathon

New York Road Runners (NYRR) is bringing together elite athletes from 20 countries for this year’s TCS New York City Marathon on Sunday, November 2, 2025.

The diverse professional athlete field includes four defending champions, nine additional former champions, 49 Olympians and Paralympians, and 16 Olympic, Paralympic, and World Championships medalists.

The TCS New York City Marathon features more than 55,000 athletes running the same course on the same day – from the first to the final finisher – and an estimated 2 million spectators lining the streets of New York City.

Last year’s race set an event record with 55,642 finishers, which at the time was the largest marathon in world history.

Headlining the professional athlete field are the four defending champions in the men’s and women’s open and wheelchair divisions – Abdi Nageeye of the Netherlands, Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya, and Daniel Romanchuk and Susannah Scaroni of the United States.

All four captured victories in 2024, with Nageeye becoming the first athlete from the Netherlands to win a men’s open division title, Chepkirui winning her first Abbott World Marathon Majors title, and Romanchuk and Scaroni leading an American sweep of the wheelchair division for the first time in event history.

The men’s open division will also include the 2021 and 2022 TCS New York City Marathon champions Albert Korir and Evans Chebet and feature the marathon debuts of US Olympians Hillary Bor and Joe Klecker.

For the first time since 2018, the women’s open division will feature the three most recent TCS New York City Marathon champions, as compatriots Hellen Obiri, the 2023 winner, and Sharon Lokedi, the 2022 victor, join Chepkirui. The field also includes American stars Fiona O’Keeffe, Molly Seidel, Emily Sisson, Susanna Sullivan.

Returning to the wheelchair division alongside Romanchuk and Scaroni are six-time TCS New York City Marathon champion and course record holder Marcel Hug, five-time champion Tatyana McFadden, three-time champion Manuela Schär, and champion and course record holder Catherine Debrunner.

Before more than 55,000 athletes of all ages and paces traverse the five boroughs for the TCS New York City Marathon this November, 2,500 youth ages two to 18 will kick off race week at the marathon’s official youth race, the TCS New York City Marathon Kids Kickoff, held on Sunday, October 26, in Central Park.

One of more than 20 free youth events New York Road Runners hosts throughout the year, the TCS New York City Marathon Kids Kickoff will be the non-profit’s largest youth event with races, dashes, games, and activities for the whole family.

The 2025 TCS New York City Marathon women’s professional athlete field is presented by Mastercard.

A New York City-based non-profit, New York Road Runners (NYRR) serves nearly a half a million people annually through its races, free community events, youth running initiatives, and school-based programs across the five boroughs.

During its nearly 70 years, NYRR has grown from a local running club to a leading running organisation, producing more than 60 adult and youth races each year, including the TCS New York City Marathon.

Held on the first Sunday each November, the TCS New York City Marathon features more than 50,000 runners — from the world’s best professional athletes to a vast range of runners across experience levels, ages, genders, abilities, and backgrounds.

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