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Mary Ngugi finished second at the 2019 United Airlines NYC Half in preparation for her marathon debut at the Boston Marathon in April, where she clocked a 2:28:33 to finish seventh. In New York, Ngugi has had additional success at the UAE Healthy Kidney 10K, finishing second in 2016 and third in 2014.

Ngugi is the world championships half marathon silver medalist from 2014 and bronze medalist from 2016, and her time of 1:06:29 at the 2016 Houston Half Marathon is the fastest-ever performance on U.S. soil. She did not participate in last year’s world championships due to an Achilles tendon injury. Ngugi has been racing on the professional circuit for more than a decade and began competing in road races at the end of 2012. She is now a half marathon specialist, having run more than a dozen of them.

Ngugi is a mother whose outgoing personality makes her one of the most popular Kenyan women runners on social media.