The 2026 New York City Marathon Field by Age, Gender and Country

Published: Nov 8, 2026 5:20 pm

Michael Doyle

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The 2026 New York City Marathon Field by Age, Gender and Country

Based on 61,018 of the 61,060 official finishers, including the professional fields and the early starts for athletes with disabilities. The 42 not shown had incomplete splits or no matching bib number.

Runners in their 20s and runners in their 70s, men and women, New Yorkers and visitors from 152 other countries all ran the same course on the same day, but at very different paces and at different hours. This map lets you follow each group through the five boroughs.

Seen by age, the field separates as it moves. The median runner in their 20s finished in 4:23 and the median runner in their 40s in 4:28, close enough to share the road most of the day. Runners in their 60s took a median of 5:03, and runners 70 and over 5:54, so by midafternoon they were running through a city the younger field had largely left behind. The median man finished in 4:14 and the median woman in 4:44.

Choose age, gender or country, switch groups on and off, and let it play. The strip in the panel shows where each group’s middle half is on the course at every moment, so you can watch them pull apart.

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WHERE EACH GROUP IS NOW

How this was measured: each runner is placed on the course from their recorded start time and the timing mats at every mile, assuming an even pace between mats. Age is the age NYRR records for race day; country is the country each runner registered from. The strip shows each group’s middle half of runners on the course at that moment, with a dot at the group’s median position.

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