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Registration Opens for the 2008 NYC Half-Marathon Presented by NIKE

Posted March 5th, 2008 at 1:30 PM by Adam Jacobs

Section: News & Results, Marathons

Registration for the 2008 NYC Half-Marathon Presented by NIKE opened at noon today with applications available online at www.nyrr.org, announced race director Mary Wittenberg, president and CEO of New York Road Runners. The race, now in its third year, will be held on Sunday, July 27.

Applications for the lottery from both U.S. and international participants will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, May 27, 2008, and results will be posted by Friday, May 30. Entry fees for runners accepted through the lottery (as well as guaranteed entrants) will be $70 for New York Road Runners members and $75 for non-members. International entrants will be charged $100.

On a course designed to celebrate New York City, the NYC Half-Marathon Presented by NIKE will take runners on a loop through Central Park, down Seventh Avenue through Times Square, across 42nd Street, and along the expansive West Side Highway to Battery Park in the heart of the city’s financial district, finishing with a view of the Statue of Liberty.

More than 17,000 people applied to the 2007 event, and nearly 10,000 people finished the race. Long-distance legend Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia won the 2007 race in stunning fashion, completing the course in 59:24, more than a minute ahead of second-place finisher Abdi Abdirahman of the United States. Robert Cheruiyot of Kenya, the 2006-07 World Marathon Majors champion, finished third. On the women’s side, Kenyan Hilda Kibet bested defending champion Catherine Ndereba, also of Kenya, and Nina Rillstone of New Zealand to win in 1:10:32.

“The NYC Half-Marathon Presented by NIKE has quickly established itself as one of the world’s must-run races,” Wittenberg said. “We expect this race, which will be run only a few weeks before the Olympic Games, to be a final tune up for many of the leading professionals and a dramatic preview of the distance races in Beijing.”

For more information and/or to register for the NYC Half-Marathon presented by Nike, please visit: http://www.nyrr.org