NYC Half: record and winners

Hellen Obiri clocked 1:06:33 to set the new women’s course record at the United Airlines NYC Half on March 15, 2026. That mark shaved 31 seconds off the previous event record of 1:07:04 set by Sharon Lokedi in the 2025 edition according to RunningUSA. Obiri’s victory was decisive: defending champion Sharon Lokedi finished second in 1:07:10 and Great Britain’s Megan Keith was third in 1:07:13, with five Americans occupying top-10 placings in the women’s field race results show these times. Obiri added the NYC Half course record to a run of dominance that includes her November 2, 2025 New York City Marathon win in a women’s course-record 2:19:51 reported by World Athletics. Adriaan Wildschutt won the men’s race in 59:30, a debut NYC Half victory for the 27-year-old South African who ran collegiately at Coastal Carolina and Florida State and now competes for HOKA NAZ Elite profiled by HOKA NAZ and race coverage. Wildschutt’s 59:30 followed a 59:13 half-marathon debut and South African record in Valencia on October 26, 2025, and the NYC Half men’s result produced remarkable depth — six men ran sub-60 minutes in New York race report and the official top-10 times.