Reigning New York City Marathon champion Mary Keitany and former champion Geoffrey Kamworor will be chasing New York City Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label road race, on Sunday 3 November.
Keitany will be defending her title as she chases her fifth title in New York race in the United States of American soil.
The three-time London Marathon champion became the second woman to win in New York four times with the second-fastest time in 2:22:48.
Having the women-only marathon world record of 2:17:01 and will be chasing the title against 2019 Boston Marathon champion Worknesh Degefa, 2019 Tokyo Marathon champion Ruti Aga, world half marathon record holder Joyceline Jepkosgei, 2018 Boston Marathon champion Des Linden.
Others are three-time Vienna marathon champion Nancy Kiprop who will be making her debut in the world marathon majors, Allie Kieffer, Sara Hall, and Kellyn Taylor.
Three-time world half-marathon champion Geoffrey Kamworor will be returning to the race to redeem his 2017 image when he won the title.
The two-time world cross country champion faces defending champion Lelisa Delisa of Ethiopia.
New York City Marathon elite invitees
Men’s Field
- Tamirat Tola, ETH 2:04:06
- Lelisa Desisa, ETH 2:04:45
- Shura Kitata, ETH 2:04:49
- Geoffrey Kamworor, KEN 2:06:12
- Albert Korir, KEN 2:08:03
- Yassine Rachik, ITA 2:08:05
- Arne Gabius, GER 2:08:33
- Abdi Abdirahman, USA 2:08:56
- Jared Ward, USA 2:09:25
- Michel Butter, NED 2:09:58
- Yoshiki Takenouchi, JPN 2:10:01
- Daniel Mesfun, ERI 2:10:06
- Brett Robinson, AUS 2:10:55
- Jack Rayner, AUS 2:11:06
- Stephen Sambu, KEN 2:11:07
- Tadesse Yae, ETH 2:11:50
- Birhanu Dare, ETH 2:12:21
- Tyler McCandless, USA 2:12:28
- Mustafa Mohamed, SWE 2:12:28
- Kiya Dandena, USA 2:12:56
- Harbert Okuti, UGA 2:13:01
- Tyler Pennel, USA 2:13:32
- Tyler Jermann, USA 2:13:39
- Joe Whelan, USA 2:13:39
- Craig Leon, USA 2:13:40
- Jarrett LeBlanc, USA 2:13:51
- Brendan Martin, USA 2:15:30
- Louis Serafini, USA 2:17:25
- Matt McClintock, USA 2:18:03
- Mo Hrezi, LBA 2:18:40
- Mizael Carrera, PUR 2:19:29
- Jamie Julia, PUR 2:20:17
- Jorge Maravilla, USA 2:21:57
- Connor McMillan, USA 2:23:28
- Collin Bennie, USA N/A
- John Raneri, USA N/A
- Andy Vernon, GBR N/A
Women’s Field
- Mary Keitany, KEN 2:17:01
- Worknesh Degefa, ETH 2:17:41
- Ruti Aga, ETH 2:18:34
- Nancy Kiprop, KEN 2:22:12
- Desiree Linden, USA 2:22:28
- Sinead Diver, AUS 2:24:11
- Kellyn Taylor, USA 2:24:29
- Sara Hall, USA 2:26:20
- Ellie Pashley, AUS 2:26:21
- Belaynesh Fikadu, ETH 2:26:41
- Yinli He, CHN 2:27:35
- Diane Nukuri, USA 2:27:50
- Buze Diriba, ETH 2:28:06
- Allie Kieffer, USA 2:28:12
- Mary Ngugi, KEN 2:28:33
- Roberta Groner, USA 2:29:09
- Gerda Steyn, RSA 2:31:04
- Kaitlin Goodman, USA 2:32:08
- Danna Herrick, USA 2:32:19
- Lindsey Scherf, USA 2:32:19
- Sasha Gollish, CAN 2:32:54
- Kate Landau, USA 2:33:29
- Katy Jermann, USA 2:33:41
- Alia Gray, USA 2:34:00
- Nicole DiMercurio, USA 2:36:03
- Bizuwork Getahun, ETH 2:36:29
- Bose Gemeda, ETH 2:39:15
- Meseret Ali, ETH 2:40:41
- Paula Pridgen, USA 2:41:29
- Jennifer Bigham, USA 2:41:37
- Margo Malone, USA 2:42:22
- Ana Johnson, USA 2:43:11
- Megan Foster, USA 2:43:44
- Molly Bookmyer, USA 2:44:07
- Joyciline Jepkosgei, KEN N/A