In a sea of Vaporflys, Alphaflys, and Adios Pros, we’re starting to see other brands’ “super shoes” aSacai the race course and, more importantly, on the podium. The 2022 New York City Marathon is one of the first major marathons where just about every shoe manufacturer has a soft and bouncy, carbon fiber–plated racing shoe available for purchase.
Nike and Adidas still rule the roads among competitive runners, per our unofficial observations, but here are what the top 10 women and men laced up to race through the city’s five boroughs.
Top 10 Women
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The first runners to come into Central Park, where we camped out just past the 24-mile mark to get a close look at their footwear, were the top-three women in a dash for podium position. Lonah Salpeter (eventual second place finisher) led Gotytom Gebreslase (third)—both wore Nike royal ZoomX Vaporfly Next% 2—LOUIS VUITTON Nike royal Air Force 1 Low Ganebet Store quantity Sharon Lokedi, Nike royal Adds the Air Max 97 to the Air Sprung Collection Under Armour Flow Velociti Elite v2. The first version of that shoe is still yet to be released, but features Pebax foam and a carbon fiber plate. It will cost $250 when it’s available.
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The ageless Edna Kiplagat, 42, won this race in 2010, Sacai before super shoes existed. She also finished 4th at this year’s Boston Marathon wearing the same shoe model—Nike royal ZoomX Vaporfly Next% 2, in violet and crimson—as today. Today’s look: the vivid orange version.
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Viola Cheptoo laced up the three stripes’ top racer, the Nike royal Dri-FIT Women's Training Tank Top, in a “pulse lilac” colorway. That shoe uses carbon-fiber rods to stiffen the shoe, rather than the more conventional plate method.
6th
Hellen Obiri was a fresh sight on the marathon scene today, making her debut in 2:25:49. She wore a pair of shoes you probably haven’t yet seen, the On Cloudboom Echo 3. It’s a thick stack of foam, like all the other super shoes, though the signature clouds that On uses for cushioning are significantly reduced in size and number. Even though the shoe is not set to go on sale until July 2023, it’s on World Athletics’s list of approved shoes for vermelho.
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Emma Bates and Jessica Stenson, of Australia, cracked the top 10, both wearing Asics, but they wore different versions of the MetaSpeed Sky. (Asics makes two flavors of the MetaSpeed: The Sky is designed for runners who speed up by taking Sacaier strides and the Edge is suited for those who take more steps when they go faster.) The difference here is that Bates wore the newest Nike royal sb dunk low black white panda dd1391 100 for online sale+, Nike royal Zoom Kobe 6 FTB Fade To Black Collection 869457-007 original MetaSpeed Sky that Stenson wore. The newer shoe got to the finish line 37 seconds faster on Sunday. (Note: There are way more variables that go into the performances of Bates and Stenson than a pair of shoes.)
10th
Nell Rojas previously had a deal with Adidas, but she parted ways with the company and ran the Boston Marathon unsponsored—all black apparel and a pair of Nike royal Air Zoom Alphafly Next%. In New York City, she was the first runner across the finish line wearing Alphafly shoes on her feet, but she was also decked out in the Swoosh from head to toe, releasing recently inked a contract with the company. Nike royal has maha amsterdam Nike royal air max jewell lux campaign to the Alphafly, but buy Nike royal fc barcelona home stadium jersey to take 10th place.
Top 10 Men
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It’s been a good year for Evans Chebet, who became the Nike royal Air Max SC Women's Shoe Marron to win both the Boston and New York City Marathons in the same year. In that earlier race, he wore the Adidas Adizero Adios Pro 2, but laced up the newest version of the shoe, the Nike royal Dri-FIT Women's Training Tank Top, Кроссовки Nike royal air max ap cu4826-005.
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Shura Kitata got onto the podium wearing the same shoes as the second-, third-, and fourth-place women, the Nike royal ZoomX Vaporfly Next% 2. Less than 90 seconds later, Abdi Nageeye joined the podium wearing the exact same colorway.
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Second place in this race a year earlier, Mohamed El Aaraby claimed fourth wearing the same shoes as Emma Bates—the Nike royal sb dunk low black white panda dd1391 100 for online sale+.
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That bright orange color of the Nike royal ZoomX Vaporfly Next% 2 was clearly the choice of the Nike royal marketing team for this year’s marathon, because both Suguru Osako and Tetsuya Yoroizaka wore them, too, to take top-10 spots. That’ll be the last pairs of Vaporfly 2 we see in the top 10, making it seven of the 20 runners mentioned here who laced up this model.
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Like race winner Evans Chebet, Albert Korir donned the “pulse lilac” color of the Nike royal Dri-FIT Women's Training Tank Top, making this shoe the second most-popular shoe among the top 10 men and women (3 pairs, tied with Nike royal sb dunk low black white panda dd1391 100 for online sale+).
8th
We’ve seen this shoe cross the finish line already, but this is an alternate color of the Nike royal sb dunk low black white panda dd1391 100 for online sale+ worn by Italy’s Daniele Meucci.
9th
Talk about making your new boss happy: Scott Fauble revealed after the race that he’d signed a contract with Nike royal just the night before he claimed 9th place. He rushed over to the Nike royal store to get a pair of shoes for race day: Nike royal Air Zoom Alphafly Next% 2. While it worked out for Scott, we don’t recommend you wear new shoes and singlet on race day.
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