2006 NYC Marathon Winners Return to Defend Titles
Latvia’s Jelena Prokopcuka and Brazil’s Marilson Gomes dos Santos will return to the 2007 ING New York City Marathon on Sunday November 4th to defend their titles of the female and male winners of the 2006 NYC Marathon. Prokopcuka will be vying for the honor of being the first to win three consecutive NYC Marathon titles since Greta Waitz in 1986. Gomes dos Santos beat out defending champion Paul Tergat at last year’s race in a surprise upset and became the first South American to win a New York City Marathon.
