NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Marathon will hold a lottery for this year’s race after all, though it’s likely fewer runners will get in through that route than in past years.
Organizer New York Road Runners said Thursday that about half the entrants from November’s canceled event chose to receive a refund. The rest picked the option of a guaranteed spot in the 2013, ’14 or ’15 race or in this month’s NYC Half.
When NYRR officials announced the policy in December for the runners who never got a chance to compete because of Superstorm Sandy, they were unsure whether there would be any space this year to allow entrants in through a lottery. For 2012, close to 15,000 people got in through U.S. and international drawings.
