Derartu Tulu, 37-year-old runner, has become today the first woman from Ethiopia to capture the New York City Marathon in its 40 years of history, in 2:28:52. This is not the first time Tulu achieves a 'worldest' as in 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games she became the first black African woman to win a gold medal in the Olympics in the 10,000 meters, a capture she repeated eight years later in Sidney.
NYC's is considered to be the world's largest and most popular marathon. Just take a look at the numbers of this year's race: 44,000 runners from all over the world, 315 million spectators on TV and another 2 million on the streets of the city, encouraging the marathoners to get to the finishing line.
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