上周日，数万名参赛者汇聚出发地斯塔顿岛（Staten Island），参加第48届TCS纽约马拉松。这是全球最大规模的马拉松盛会。本届马拉松的申请者多达10万名，只有15%得到了通过。他们要穿过纽约市的全部五个区，竞争极其激烈，奖金也相当丰厚。

纽约路跑协会（New York Road Runners）的会员只需缴纳255美元的参赛费，美国非会员的参赛费是295美元，而外国参赛者则需要缴纳358美元。在今年的比赛中获得男子组第一名和女子组第一名的选手将赢得10万美元奖金，亚军和季军分别可以获得6万美元和4万美元。本届大赛的总奖池共计82.5万美元。

据ABC 7 NY报道，在上周日的比赛里，肯尼亚的玛丽·凯特尼夺得女子组冠军，这也是她第四次摘得该项赛事的桂冠，获得男子组冠军的是埃塞俄比亚的勒利萨·德西萨。与此同时，20岁的丹尼尔·罗曼丘克在男子轮椅组的比赛中第一个越过终点线。他耗时1小时36分21秒，成为了赢得该项赛事的最年轻选手。

第一批选手都有身体残疾，他们在东部时间上午8:30出发，随后第二批在9:50出发，第三批在10:15出发，最后一批在11:00出发。

《人物》（People）报道称，第一届纽约马拉松举办于1970年，当时只有55名参赛者。赛事发展至今，这次纽约的参赛选手已经多达5.5万名。《福布斯》（Forbes）表示，参赛者包括为慈善机构募资者、合格的赛跑者和素食的马拉松运动员。

去年赢得冠军的四位选手也参加了上周日的比赛。在1977年米基·戈尔曼之后第一位夺冠的美国女选手沙兰·弗拉纳根和肯尼亚的杰弗里·坎沃若都志在卫冕。另外两位则是赢得轮椅组冠军的瑞士人曼努埃拉·沙尔和马塞尔·哈格。

弗拉纳根对ABC 7 NY表示：“能够回来尝试卫冕让我倍感荣幸，美梦成真了。”她最终在上周日的女子组比赛中得到第三名。（财富中文网）

译者：严匡正

Thousands of runners took the streets last Sunday, starting in Staten Island for the 48th TCS New York City Marathon, the world’s largest marathon race. With only 15% of the 100,000 applicants accepted, the NYC marathon, which has runners making their way through all five New York City boroughs, is extremely competitive and also offers some big prize money.

U.S. runners who are members of the New York Road Runners pay a $255 entry fee. The cost is $295 for non-members, and $358 for foreign runners. First-place male and female winners of this year’s race will receive a $100,000 prize, with second-place winners taking home $60,000, and third-place winners taking home $40,000. There is a total of $825,000 in prize money.

Mary Keitany of Kenya won the women’s race for the fourth time last Sunday, while Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia won the men’s division. Meanwhile, 20-year-old Daniel Romanchuk was the first to cross the finish line in this year’s men’s Wheelchair Division, with a time of 1:36:21. Romanchuk is also the youngest person to win in the marathon, ABC 7 NY reported.

The first set of runners, athletes with physical disabilities, took off at 8:30 a.m. E.T., followed by the next wave of runners who started at 9:50 a.m., the third at 10:15 a.m., and the last group taking off at 11 a.m.

The first ever race in 1970 had just 55 participants and has since grown to include 55,000 runners this Sunday morning, People reports. Participants include people raising money for charities, racers who qualified on time, or veteran marathon runners, according to Forbes.

The four winners of last year’s race also put on their marathon shoes on last Sunday morning, with Americans Shalane Flanagan—the first U.S. woman to win the New York marathon since Miki Gorman in 1977—and Kenyan Geoffrey Kamworor aiming to defend their titles, along with the Swiss pair Manuela Schar and Marcel Hug who previously won in the Wheelchair Division.

“To be coming back as the defending champion, it’s quite an honor and literally a dream come true,” Flanagan—who ultimately took third place in last Sunday’s women’s race—told ABC 7 NY.