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Reigning London Champ Kebede Looks to Continue His Dominance and Collect the $500K WMM bonus
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The New York City Marathon always attracts a top field marked bey statistics and prior elite finishes.. The 2013 field is no different, and will include: three Olympic medalists, three past champions, seven men who have run sub-2:07, the reigning Olympic and World champion, the reigning New York and London Marathon champions and more... But a few of these men stand above the others and we'll expect the race to be among Geoffrey Mutai, Tsegaye Kebede and Stephen Kiprotich with a number of others thrown in to keep it interesting...
The man with the most on the line is Tsegaye Kebede who stands atop the World Marathon Majors (WMM) leaderboard and stands to win a $500K bonus if he can finish top two (or at least ahead of Stephen Kiprotich) at New York. Kebede twice finished runner-up in the WMM standings: in 2010 he was bested by Sammy Wanjiru in a down-to-the-wire race at the Chicago Marathon and in 2012 Kebede was a distant second in the standings to a dominant Geoffrey Mutai. Kebede, the 2008 Olympic bronze medalist and reigning London Marathon champion, ran the World Championships Marathon in August and was a late entrant to the field.
Geoffrey Mutai is arguably the favorite for the 2013 race. Mutai set the New York Marathon record in 2011 - 2:05:06 - and has five times run the marathon faster than the personal best time of anyone else in the field. Stephen Kiprotich has one of the "slower" personal best times in the field (2:07:20), but considering that he is both the reigning Olympic gold medalist and reigning World Champion at the marathon, he has shown that he has what it takes to race in a tactical marathon such as New York (where the race does not rely on pacers).
Stephen Biwott is the man with the second best marathon on his record - a 2:05:12 win at the 2012 Paris Marathon - as well as a number of other credible marathons but he comes to the field with less experience than some others.
Rounding out the field are three crowd favorites and proven winners. Meb Keflezighi has been one of the most consistent marathoners and a man who put American marathoning back on the map. From his 2004 Olympics Silver medal to his 2009 New York City Marathon win (not to mention his two other NYC top three finishes) to his 2012 Olympics fourth place finish - Keflezighi has had a long and successful career and will garner more cheering and more hope than anyone else on the course on marathon Sunday. Like Keflezighi, Martin Lel has had more top three finishes at WMM events than any other marathoner, including two wins at the New York City Marathon (2003 & 2007) and three wins at the London Marathon (2005, 2007 & 2008). While many believed Lel was past his prime, Lel returned for back-to-back runner-up finishes at London in 2011 and 2012; and like those years, the pundits will not be expecting much from Lel...but he might surprise. Wesley Korir surprised all with his runner-up finish at the 2011 Chicago Marathon (2:06:15) which he followed up with a win at the 2012 Boston Marathon and a personal best at the 2012 Chicago Marathon (2:06:13). Korir, a Kenyan educated in the USA, turned his marathon success into a political career in Kenya and we will see how he balances his running and newfound public duties.
| Male Elite Athletes |
| Athlete | Country | Bib | Personal Best | NYC |
| Geoffrey Mutai (32) | KEN | 1 | 2:03:02, Boston, 2011 | History |
| Stephen Kiprotich (24) | UGA | 2 | 2:07:20, Enschede, 2011 | History |
| Tsegaye Kebede (26) | ETH | 3 | 2:04:38, Chicago, 2012 | History |
| Martin Lel (35) | KEN | 4 | 2:05:15, London, 2008 | History |
| Meb Keflezighi (38) | USA | 6 | 2:09:08, 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Men's Marathon, 2012 | History |
| Wesley Korir (30) | KEN | 7 | 2:06:13, Chicago, 2012 | History |
| Stanley Biwott (27) | KEN | 8 | 2:05:12, Paris, 2012 | History |
| Peter Kirui (25) | KEN | 9 | 2:06:31, Frankfurt, 2011 | History |
| Yuki Kawauchi (26) | JPN | 10 | 2:08:14, Seoul, 2013 | History |
| Lusapho April (31) | RSA | 11 | 2:08:32, Hannover, 2013 | History |
| Bob Tahri (34) | FRA | 12 | Debut | History |
| Daniele Meucci (28) | ITA | 14 | 2:13:49, Rome, 2010 | History |
| Ryan Vail (27) | USA | 15 | 2:12:43, 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Men's Marathon, 2012 | History |
| Masato Imai (29) | JPN | 16 | 2:10:29, Tokyo, 2013 | History |
| Jason Hartmann (32) | USA | 17 | 2:11:06, Chicago, 2010 | History |
| Jackson Kiprop (26) | UGA | 18 | 2:09:32, Mumbai, 2013 | History |
| Julius Arile (30) | KEN | 19 | 2:12:13, Praha, 2012 | History |
| Jeffrey Eggleston (29) | USA | 20 | 2:12:03, Chicago, 2012 | History |
| Guor Maker (29) | USA | 21 | 2:12:55, San Diego, 2012 | History |
| Cesar Lizano (31) | CRC | 22 | 2:17:50, Chicago, 2011 | History |
| Augustus Maiyo (30) | USA | 23 | 2:20:20, Washington DC, 2012 | History |
| Kevin Pool (30) | USA | 24 | 2:18:59, Boston, 2013 | History |
| Christian Thompson (25) | USA | 25 | Debut | History |
| Harbert Okuti (28) | UGA | 26 | Debut | History |
| Radoslaw Dudycz (39) | POL | 27 | 2:14:58, Debno, 2009 | History |
| Allen Wagner (33) | USA | 28 | 2:17:16, 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Men's Marathon, 2012 | History |
| Paolo Natali (33) | ITA | 29 | 2:19:53, London, 2011 | History |
| Michael Cassidy (28) | USA | 30 | 2:18:52, Sacramento, 2011 | History |
| Mike Popejoy (27) | USA | 34 | Debut | History |
| Viktor Rothlin (39) | SUI | 39 | 2:07:23, Tokyo, 2008 | History |
| Danilo Goffi (40) | ITA | 40 | 2:08:33, Rotterdam, 1998 | History |
| José Manuel Martinez (42) | ESP | 42 | 2:08:09, Rotterdam, 2003 | History |
| Anders Szalkai (43) | SWE | 43 | 2:12:43, Austin, 2001 | History |
| Franklin Tenorio (44) | ECU | 44 | 2:10:22, Rome, 1998 | History |
| Hermann Achmüller (42) | ITA | 46 | 2:18:56, London, 2005 | History |
| Tesfaye Girma (31) | ETH | 47 | 2:10:18, Reims, 2010 | History |
| Ketema Nigusse (32) | ETH | 48 | 2:15:45, Berlin, 2008 | History |
| Vladimir Kotov (55) | BLR | 55 | 2:10:58, 1980 Olympic Games - Men's Marathon, 1980 | History |
| Ryan Hall (31) | USA | | 2:04:58, Boston, 2011 | History |
| German Silva (45) | MEX | | 2:08:56, Boston, 1998 | History |
| Dan Daly (28) | PER | | 2:20:26, Duluth, 2013 | History |
| Ben Payne (32) | USA | | 2:21:01, Boston, 2011 | History |
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