Mary Keitany won four TCS New York City Marathon titles, including three consecutively from 2014 to 2016. Her 3:34 margin of victory in 2016 was the greatest in the women’s race since 1980, and she became the first open division runner since Grete Waitz to win the event three years in a row. She was also runner-up twice at the marathon and three-time winner of the New York Mini 10K.

Keitany remains the world record-holder in a women-only marathon, having won the 2017 London Marathon in a time of 2:17:01, which was one of her three London Marathon victories. In Kenya, she helped fund and build a school and church in her village, and in 2019, she was invited to the Vatican to meet with the Pope, who blessed her for all of her accomplishments.