TCS New York City Marathon – News – Emily Sisson To Make Long-Awaited NYC Marathon Debut

SISSON TO MAKE LONG-AWAITED NYC MARATHON DEBUT
By David Monti, @d9monti
(c) 2025 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved – Used with permission.

NEW YORK (19-Aug) — She’s had to wait five years, but USA marathon record holder Emily Sisson will finally get her chance to run the TCS New York City Marathon this November.  Sisson, 33, a two-time Olympian who has won eight national titles, was supposed to run what would have been the 50th edition of the world’s largest marathon in 2020, but the race was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  She had to settle for running the race “virtually” on the Silver Strand Bikeway in Coronado, Calif., accompanied by her husband, Shane Quinn, on a bicycle (for the record she ran 2:38:32).

“Enjoyed pushing myself and looking forward to the next opportunities,” Sisson wrote on her Instagram at the time. “Here’s to making the best out of 2020!”

Sisson is part of a strong elite field for the 2025 race, which will take place on Sunday, November 2.  The competition will also feature marathon debuts by track Olympians Joe Klecker and Hillary Bor of the USA, previous women’s champions Sharon Lokedi and Hellen Obiri of Kenya, and title defenses by Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya and Abdi Nageeye of the Netherlands.  But for Sisson, the race should be particularly special given that she is both America’s fastest-ever marathon woman and that her kit sponsor, New Balance, has a deep and long-running relationship with both the TCS New York City Marathon and the race founders and organizers, New York Road Runners.

“I am so excited to be lining up in New York!” Sisson told Race Results Weekly in an e-mail.  “New York City really is my favorite place to race because the energy is always incredible. NYRR also does an amazing job, always, and I can’t wait to be back in November.” 

Sisson’s road running career actually began in earnest eight years ago in New York.  On a near-freezing day in March of 2017, Sisson and then-training partner Molly Huddle ran the United Airlines NYC Half.  The pair, who had come from a warm-weather training camp in Arizona, ran together the entire way and Huddle just edged Sisson by two seconds, 1:08:19 to 1:08:21.  Sisson’s time was a USA half-marathon debut record.  She began to see that the marathon would be her future.

“It’s pretty special,” Sisson told Race Results Weekly that day.  “I didn’t even know what [the record] was coming into today, but I’m pretty happy, especially to do it here, a tough…