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Two-time Olympian Molly Huddle will be racing her third TCS New York City Marathon. In 2016, Huddle made her 26.2-mile debut, running 2:28:13 to make the TCS New York City Marathon podium with a third-place finish. She came back to race the marathon again in 2018, taking fourth in 2:26:44 and finishing as the second American behind Shalane Flanagan.

Huddle won the United Airlines NYC Half in 2015, 2016, and 2017, with her winning time of 1:07:41 from 2016 breaking the event record that stood until last year. She is the former American record-holder in the half marathon, and in January clocked a 1:10:01 for fifth place at the Houston Half nine months after giving birth to her daughter, Josephine.

Her success in New York is wide-ranging beyond the half and the marathon; in 2017 she won the USATF 5K Championships in Central Park with what was then a course-record time of 15:24. Additionally, her win at the New York Mini 10K in 2014 made her the first American to win the title in a decade, and her time of 31:37 set an American record for a women-only race.

In 2018, Huddle set an American record in the half marathon with a 1:07:25 at the Houston Half Marathon and then won gold over 10,000 meters at the USATF Championships to win her 27th national title. In 2017, prior to the TCS New York City Marathon, she picked up eighth- and 12th-place finishes in the 10,000 and 5000 meters at the World Athletics Championships. In 2016, she also won the 10,000- and 5000-meter races at the U.S. Olympic Trials—becoming the first woman in history to win the double—and finished sixth in the 10,000 meters at the Rio Olympics, setting an American record of 30:13.17. In 2015, she set the American road 5K record (14:50) at the B.A.A. 5K, won the USATF Outdoor Championships 10,000 meters, and placed fourth at the World Athletics Championships 10,000 meters.

A native of Elmira, N.Y., Huddle attended the University of Notre Dame, where she was a nine-time NCAA All-American. She has been credited, in part, for the creation of the female runner emoji and is the co-author of the book How She Did It: Stories, Advice, and Secrets to Success from 50 Legendary Distance Runners