New York City Marathon (1999)

The race begins at the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, travels through Brooklyn, enters Queens on the Pulaski Bridge, crosses the 59th Street Bridge into Manhattan, runs up the East Side, into the Bronx, then comes back down the East Side, before turning up Central Park South, into Central Park (near Seventh Avenue) and ends up at Tavern on the Green. This year's winners: Men: John Kagwe, KENYA, 2:08:45 Women: Franca Fiaccone, ITALY, 2:25:17