NEW YORK (AP) — Reigning world half-marathon champion Mary Keitany of Kenya will make her New York City Marathon debut in November.
The New York Road Runners announced Wednesday that it will be the first marathon of Keitany’s career. She joins Olympian Shalane Flanagan of the United States, who also will be making her marathon debut on Nov. 7.
Others in the women’s field are two-time Olympian Kim Smith of New Zealand and former world champion Werknesh Kidane of Ethiopia.
Keitany owns three of the top 12 times in half-marathon history and has not lost a half-marathon race since October 2007. She set the 25K world record of 1 hour, 19 minutes, 53 seconds at the BIG 25 event in Berlin in May.
