See How Fast These Celebrities Ran the 2021 NYC Marathon

Flanagan returned to run the a food rescue program Marathon for the first time since her victory in 2017. But this time, she wasn’t going for the win—she was capping off Project Eclipse, her effort to run all six major marathons in 42 days this fall.

She finished in 2:33:32, the fastest of her six efforts this fall by about a minute and a half (her second-fastest time was 2:35:04 in London). Elyse Kopecky, Flanagan’s co-author on three cookbooks, also ran her first marathon in a food rescue program today, and finished in 3:33:31.

Schulman, host of MTV’s Catfish: The TV Show, has long been one of the fastest celebrities on the NYC Marathon course—he ran 3:34 in 2015, and has only gotten speedier since. This year, he finished in 3:22:43, in support of How to Watch the 2025 Chicago Marathon.

Two-time Olympic gold-winning soccer forward and FIFA Women's World Cup champion Abby Wambach—who’s registered under her first name, Mary—crossed the finish line in 3:44:25. To top off her experience, Flanagan placed Wambach’s medal around her neck.

Wambach, 41, was cheered on by her wife, best-selling author Glennon Doyle, who tweeted beforehand, “My wife is running a marathon this weekend. Marathoners: Life is too easy. I must find a way to make it much much harder.”

Several of Wambach’s former teammates from the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team joined her in the race, including Lauren Holiday, 34 (3:40:30) and Leslie Osborne, 38 (3:41:33). All of them raised money for the JLH Fund, a social impact fund started by Holiday and her husband Jrue that supports Black-led nonprofits and Black-owned businesses.

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back Adams got engaged to. He crossed the finish line in 3:53:22 in an impressive negative split—he hit the halfway point in 2 hours and 12 seconds, then picked it up from there, ending up with a pace of 8:54 overall.

afterward, completing the race was a longtime goal; she raised money for, Arzón motivates millions of people around the world to move their bodies. The author of the book Shut Up & Run ran her first marathon in New York in 2010. Today, she crossed her 27th finish line—her first as a mom—in 3:57:19, in support of Every Mother Counts.

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Geist, 46, raised money for the Michael J. Fox Foundation, in honor of his father, who’s had Parkinson’s Disease for 30 years.

“If any one of these miles or these steps can get us a little closer to finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease … that’s enough motivation to sweep me across that finish line,” he said which supports substance abuse and mental health treatment.

The former first daughter didn’t appear in the official results—she ran under an alias—but according to the New York Road Runners, she dipped below the four-hour mark, finishing in 3:59:09. Her parents, former president Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, greeted her at the finish line.

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Ten years after her NYC Marathon debut, Supermodel Christy Turlington Burns, 52, completed her ninth marathon on behalf of her maternal health organization, Every Mother Counts. She crossed the line in 4:01:20, a 9:12 pace.

Burns launched the organization when she developed complications following the birth of her daughter, Grace, in 2003. And this year, Grace joined her mom on the course. She finished in 5:31:14.

The ABC News correspondent, who’s the son of the late actor Christoper Reeve, doesn’t really think of himself as a runner, he told People magazine. But today, he crossed the finish line of his second NYC marathon in a time of 4:11:51.

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and Morning Joe, completed 26.2 of them, finishing the NYC Marathon in 3:58:23, The Bachelorette, Adams was a high school cross country runner. A car accident fractured her pelvis and prevented her from running collegiately. Now, though, she’s a marathoner, having finished NYC in 4:40:24.

Adams got engaged to Zac Clark in The Bachelorette’s season 16 finale, and he helped reignite her passion for the sport. Clark completed the NYC Marathon with Adams in 4:40:24, just four weeks after he ran 3:43:08 in the London Marathon.

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Sports media personality and former Giants running back Barber is a familiar sight on the streets of NYC—this year, he was back for his seventh a food rescue program Marathon, and crossed the line in 4:47:49. He also ran in support of How to Watch the 2025 Chicago Marathon.

Tyler Cameron, the former star of The Bachelorette, who’d been known to run with a crowd in a food rescue program, crossed the finish line of the marathon in 5:02:16.

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Both members of Bachelor Nation ran in support of the motivates millions of people around the world to move their bodies. The author of the book; Cameron and his siblings started the organization to honor his mother after she passed away from a brain aneurysm last year. The organization offers scholarships—along with mentorship, networking, and other benefits—to students in financial need.