Frank Matte of Birmingham led Alabama runners to the finish Sunday at the TCS New York City Marathon, with Megan Lehr of Huntsville pacing area finishers.
Matte, 36, finished 136th in 2:31:41, a pace of 5:48 per mile.
Lehr, 42, finished in 3:13, a 7:24 pace. She was 4,453rd out of 55,129 official finishers. William White, 27, of Florence, was the top male from north Alabama. He finished in 3:17:47, a 7:33 pace. He led the state’s participants two years ago.
Alabama saw 114 runners officially finish, 10 more than last year. Matte was the state’s top finisher in 2024, as well.
About the NYC Marathon
More than 55,000 athletes from nearly 150 countries traversed the five boroughs of New York City and crossed the iconic finish line in Central Park.
Kenya’s Hellen Obiri, the 2023 TCS New York City Marathon champion, won her second women’s open division title. Obiri also broke the 22-year course record. Fellow Kenyan Benson Kipruto won the men’s open division title by less than one second. It was the closest men’s finish in the race’s history.
The field included 31,927 male finishers, 27,156 female and 143 non-binary. The overall average finish time was 4:32.25. Manhattan led the five boroughs with 11,077 finishers, while 39,546 were non-New York City runners.
The New York City Marathon is one of the seven world majors. Others are Sydney, Chicago, Tokyo, London, Boston and Berlin. The New York marathon began in 1970 with runners making four-plus loops in Central Park. In 1976 it expanded into the five boroughs. Thousands of spectators offer encouragement along the way.
Runners start on Staten Island and cross the Verrazano Narrows Bridge into Brooklyn. Mile No. 1 is atop the bridge overlooking the narrows and southern parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan. They make their way north through myriad Brooklyn neighborhoods into Queens to the Queensboro Bridge into upper Manhattan. But as relatively close as runners are to the finish at Central Park, they’re not done. They head north again for a 1.5-mile jiggle into the Bronx. Then, it’s a turn south back into Manhattan and into Central Park, finishing at Central Park West and 67th.
Click here to see Alabama’s finishers in the 2025 TCS New York City Marathon.
Steven Campbell, 53, of Sevierville, was the top Tennessee finisher, in 3:00:09. Tennessee had 181 official finishers.
