MANCHESTER — Edwin Kurgat of Kenya broke the course record at the 89th annual Manchester Road Race, winning the 4.737-mile Thanksgiving Day race in 20 minutes, 54 seconds Thursday morning.
Weini Kelati, who holds the women’s course record, won the race for the fifth straight year, tying Amy Rudolph’s record of five victories. Kelati, of Flagstaff, Arizona, won in 23:18.
Over 12,000 runners participated in the race.
Kurgat finished third last year. David Mullarkey of England finished second Thursday in 20:58 and Morgan Beadlescomb of East Lansing, Mich., who won in 2023, finished third (20:59). The top three finishers all finished under the course record of 21:04 set by Conner Mantz in 2022.
