Former Brigham Young University All-American star and Olympic runner Jared Ward continued his stellar slate of finishes as a professional marathoner, finishing Sunday’s 2018 TCS New York City Marathon in sixth place overall. The 30-year-old finished the race in 2:12.24, the highest-finishing American to compete Sunday.
“It’s the place to do it, right? The New York streets are incredible,” he said in an interview on ESPN afterward. “I was planning on the crowds helping me by the time I got to First Avenue, but it was 6, 7, 8 miles into the race in Brooklyn when I think someone was playing something from ‘Rocky,’ and the crowds were just incredible.