The event attracts tourists from the whole world and the city in that day you/he/she has literally stopped, for the roads it unthreads a snake made of thousand and thousand of people: athletes, common people, manager, people with the roller skate and with the stroller, people with handicap, homosexuals, photographers, scrittori…tutti the lovers of the Big Apple.
To participate is not you simple in how much the applications are of a lot of superior (almost the quadruple) to the around trentamila you post available. The most greater part of the participants are extracted to fate among all the reached applications, the extraction it happens around the first ones of June.
The cost of the presentation of the question is of 7 dollars: who is extracted it has to pour a second quota of registration. A preferential passage in the obtainment of the tickets you can have her/it in the case you have already disputed (with good times) a complete marathon from 1999 in before. The registrations will have to reach within May 1.

The first marathon in New York goes up again to 1970, it had a budget of 1000 $and only in 55 they succeeded in reaching the end. Departing with such a humble beginning the competition is grown more always, up to become of world fame. Currently it boasts over 3 0.000 athletes, 12.000 volunteers, more than a million spectators lined up all over the world along the run and about ten million in front of the television, all to celebrate the passion for the sport, for the brotherhood among the people and the potential of the human being.

In 1976, to celebrate the bicentennial of the United States the marathon it stirred from Central Park to the roads of the five districts of the city,: Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Manhattan. In the antecedent days the first competition along the five districts, nobody knew what would really have happened. Also Frank Shorter, that the gold won for the marathon to the 1972 Olympiads and the silver in the ‘76, admitted that you/he/she would be introduced only to the competition to see what the police would have done for polishing up the roads of the run. Shorter united him to other 2089 participants second it arrived, behind Bill Rodgers.

The competition kept on growing of year and year. In 1978 they participated more than 9.000 maratonetis, beating the record for the run with more participants. In 1995 around 2700 people they passed the line of the finishing line and in 1999 they passed her/it in 3176. The 2000 run has included an official division of runners on competition wheelchairs even if the access to the disabled persons was possible since 1976. In 2001, few two months later the terrorist attack to the twin towers of September 11, the marathon became the run of the hope and the courage with a meaningful presence of spectators and participants, against all the fears.

Italians and the marathon

And' the most beloved marathon of Italians! All' beginning of November, a salute of gun will start the Marathon in New York, an unique competition, beloved and dreamt by the maratonetis of the whole world, a spectacular competition, a finishing line that, when you have cut him/it, you/he/she can also change you the life. And' what happened to Orlando Pizzolato, that the marathon has won twice her following, in the 84 and in the 85. And' what every year happens to hundreds of strangers, that sees that finishing line in Central Park as a challenge with itself same. And that finishing line, at the end of the long blue line 42 kms and 195 meters that from the Queensborough Bridge it crosses the five districts in Manhattan, it never disappoints anybody. Not by chance, the Marathon in New York, in comparison to the other marathons, it counts a low percentage of retired. They almost all make her/it, some thanks to the time elevated limit (8 hours in comparison to the 5/6 of the most greater part of the marathons) but above all thanks to the typhus and the enthusiasm of the 2 million of people that assist to the competition along the whole run. The first edition of the marathon in New York goes up again to 1970. Inventor, the mythical Fred Lebow. To that time, and for other 5 editions, the Marathon he raced all inside Central Park. Then, from 1977, it became the Marathon of the City of New York, with a run that from Staten Island it crosses Queens, Bronx, Brookleen and Manhattan. The history of Italians in New York starts a few years later, when in 1981, Anthony Baldisserotto, titular of the Agency Viaggi Terramia, decides to try with a handful of violent, the American adventure. Since then, every year, hundreds of Italian maratoneti sorvolano the Atlantic to race to New York. And for a long time, every year, Orlando Pizzolato, testimonial of Terramia, accompanies the maratonetis in this trip and in this marathon. Particularly deal him with the team Terramia Top Runners, that understands the maratonetis that you/they close the Marathon under the 3 hours. And last year was really a Terramia Top Runners to arrive first among Italians, Valerio Brignone with the time of 2:20:36. And this year retries us. That that is changing perhaps it is that the marathon is not alone and not more a mere phenomenon for sporting some "unscrewed" but you/he/she is becoming more every year a real phenomenon of custom. Patrician Roversi, Maria Teresa Ruta, Gianni Morandi, Riccardo Fogli, is more or less so many the characters known that, at least once in the life, you/they have wanted to feel this unforgettable experience. This year is to its debut the popular one goddess-jay Linus, that, together with the Staff of Radio Goddess-Jay, and to a group of hundred young listeners, it will race to New York its first marathon. In a world where the funs, the feelings, friendships become often a something artificial, of virtual, than difficult to experiment, a fatiguing run in shorts is able, incredibly, to give authentic emotions, strong, indeed unforgettable.

The numbers:

- The run is of 42,195 kms through the 5 districts in Manhattan
- The participants are around 30.000.
- The public is of 2 million spectators.
- The Italian group Terramia is of 970 people. Of these 698 is enrolled to the marathon. The armature created by the Marathon in New York is of 140 million dollars.
- The plurivincitore of the Marathon in New York is Bill Rodgers that you/he/she has cut for first the finishing line for 5 consecutive editions.
- The plurivincitrice is Grete Waitz that it has to its asset well 9 victories.
- The masculine record is of the Ethiopian Tesfaye Jifar with 2:07:43
- The female recod is of the keniana Margaret Okayo with 2:24:21.
- Both the records have been realized in the 2001 edition.
- Italian victories have been 5: Hemming Pizzolato in the 84 and in the 85, Gianni Poli in the 86, Giacomo Leone in 96, Frank Fiacconi in 98.
- This year the winner will bring him home 80.000 dollars and an auto Pontiac.
- According to the statistics the category more represented among the maratonetis in New York is that of the lawyers, followed by manager and teachers.
- The less presents are the political ones and the dentists.

Useful sites

www.nycmarathon.org - Official Site

www.nyrr.org - New York Road Runners

www.terramia.com - it Organizes trainings and flights for the marathon