The New York City Marathon 2025 welcomes a star-studded field headlined by Olympic and marathon major champions including Eliud Kipchoge and Sifan Hassan.
In a course debut for both the Kenyan and Dutch athletes, the 26.2 mile race is set up for a fascinating battle through the five boroughs of New York City. While Patrick Dever and Eilish McColgan lead British interest in the ‘Big Apple’.
It brings a close to marathon majors season, too, fresh off the back of Jacob Kiplimo and Hawi Feysa’s victories in Chicago, and Sabastian Sawe’s storming win in Berlin after leading an unprecedented anti-doping scheme with the AIU and Adidas.
The sport suffered a blow, though, when official women’s world record holder Ruth Chepng’etich was handed a three-year ban for doping.
Here’s everything you need to know about the iconic New York Marathon:
When is the New York City Marathon 2025?
The New York City Marathon 2025 takes place on Sunday 2 November, starting on Staten Island and finishing in Central Park, Manhattan.
How to watch
Fans in the UK can watch the New York City Marathon 2025 on Discovery+ and TNT Sports, with coverage starting at 1:30pm GMT. For a live stream, you can use discovery+. Fans in the USA can catch the coverage and a live stream via ESPN 2, with the start time at 8 AM ET (1pm GMT).
Schedule and start times
Local time (ET) and GMT
8:00 AM (1:00 PM) - Men's Wheelchair Start
8:02 AM (1:02 PM) - Women's Wheelchair Start
8:22 AM (1:22 PM) - Marathon Pushrim and Handcycle Start
8:35 AM (1:35 PM) - Elite Women Start
9:05 AM (2:05 PM) - Elite Men Start
9:10 AM (2:10 PM) - Wave 1 Start
9:45 AM (2:45 PM) - Wave 2 Start
10:20 AM (3:20 PM) - Wave 3 Start
10:45 AM (3:45 PM) - Wave 4 Start
11:30 AM (4:30 PM) - Wave 5 Start
What is the prize money?
Men’s and women’s elite races
1st $100,000
2nd $60,000
3rd $40,000
4th $25,000
5th $15,000
6th $10,000
7th $7,500
8th $5,000
9th $2,500
10th $2,000
Bonuses
Course record bonuses
New York Road Runners will pay a $50,000 bonus to the Open Division and/or Wheelchair Division race winners who break the existing event record, based on Gun Time.
