WHAT:

The world’s top runners and NYRR Young Runners competing in the 2017 United Airlines NYC Half and NYRR Times Square Youth Run on March 19, to greet the first runners to pick up their race bibs at the 2017 United Airlines NYC Half Experience Presented by New Balance. One-on-one interviews with the pro athletes will follow.

WHO:

Pro athletes scheduled to appear include:

• Josh George (USA): Five-time Paralympic medalist & winner of 2014 NYC Half
• Callum Hawkins (GBR): Team New Balance Olympian & Scottish half-marathon record-holder
• Molly Huddle (USA): NYRR Team for Kids Ambassador, two-time defending United Airlines NYC Half champion & event record-holder, two-time Olympian
• Meb Keflezighi (USA): NYRR Team for Kids Ambassador, four-time Olympian
• Feyisa Lilesa (ETH): Rio 2016 Olympic Marathon silver medalist
• Tatyana McFadden (USA): NYRR Team for Kids Ambassador, five-time New York City Marathon champion, defending United Airlines NYC Half champion & event record-holder, 17-time Paralympic medalist
• Beverly Ramos (PUR) Team New Balance Olympian, Puerto Rican half marathon and marathon record-holder
• Stephen Sambu (KEN): Defending United Airlines NYC Half champion
• Emily Sisson (USA), Team New Balance athlete making her half-marathon debut

25 NYRR Young Runners from P.S. 173 in Manhattan

Michael Capiraso, president and CEO of New York Road Runners

Peter Ciaccia, president of events of New York Road Runners and the race director of the TCS New York City Marathon

WHERE:

Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, between 6th and 7th Ave.

WHEN:

Friday, March 17, 10:30 a.m.

PRESS INFO:

Members of the press who wish to cover the event, please RSVP to Whitney Biaggi at wbiaggi@nyrr.org or 212-423-2240, in advance. 

About the United Airlines NYC Half

Founded in 1958, New York Road Runners has grown from a local running club to the world’s premier community running organization, whose mission is to help and inspire people through running. The United Airlines NYC Half is NYRR’s signature half-marathon, and the opening event of the NYRR Five-Borough Series. The race features a talented American and international professional athlete field, competitive, recreational, and charity runners, some 1,500 volunteers and thousands of spectators. The event offers the quintessential New York experience—a 13.1-mile tour of the Big Apple like no other—from the rolling hills of Central Park, up to Harlem, down through Times Square, along the Hudson River waterfront, to a finish in lower Manhattan. The NYRR Times Square Youth Run at the United Airlines NYC Half gives 1,000 youth runners and wheelchair racers the free opportunity to run through the heart of Times Square right alongside the 13.1-mile course. United Airlines, New York area's largest airline, is the title sponsor of the United Airlines NYC Half and an NYRR foundation partner. To learn more, visit unitedairlinesnychalf.nyrr.org.