Which Countries and States Ran the 2026 New York City Marathon Fastest

The rankings below use groups with at least 50 finishers (25 for clubs and teams) and leave out professional athletes. You can change both in the panel to see every country, state and club in the race.

Among the 43 countries with at least 50 finishers in New York, Colombia’s runners had the fastest median time, 3:53:35 across 171 finishers, followed by Portugal at 3:54:48 and Chile at 3:56:13. Adjusted for age and sex, using each runner’s age-graded score, Portugal moved to first, ahead of Chile and Spain. Portugal also had the largest share of runners under three hours, 12.7 percent.

Canada ranked 15th, with a median of 4:12:54, and Britain 17th. The United States, by far the largest group with more than 45,000 finishers, ranked 36th at 4:32:19.

Among U.S. states, Maine was fastest, at 4:16:08, followed by Delaware and Oregon; adjusted for age, Wisconsin moved up to second. New York ranked 10th of 36 states, and New Jersey 27th. Among clubs and teams, Central Park Track Club Tracksmith stood apart: its 135 finishers had a median of 3:12:52, and more than a third broke three hours.

Finishers listed 11,026 different hometowns. Among the 91 with at least 50 finishers, runners from Bogotá had the fastest median, 3:43:35, followed by Mexico City and Santiago. Toronto was fourth, at 3:59:45. New York, as runners from Manhattan list it, accounted for 12,047 finishers, with a median of 4:20:12, and Brooklyn for 5,596. Choose “Hometown” in the panel to rank every hometown with at least 10 finishers.

The rankings say as much about how runners reach New York as about how fast they are. Many international entrants come through tour operators and qualifying times, while most New Yorkers enter through the lottery and New York Road Runners’ club-race program, which brings in a far wider range of ability. A country that sends a few dozen committed marathoners will usually outrank one that sends tens of thousands of people of every level.