Center City mom Katie Florio is this year’s Philadelphia Marathon women’s race winner, only the second woman from the Philadelphia area to have won it in recent years, writes Paulie Loscalzo for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“Living in the city, I run these streets twice a day,” said 30-year-old Florio, an Ardmore native and Archbishop Carroll High School graduate. “It was cool, like, I knew the tangents, I knew the course.”

“My city, my win,” she said, after crossing the finish line.

The annual marathon brings 17,000 runners to the Art Museum to run the 26.2-mile course.

An estimated 100,000 spectators lined the course Sunday to watch the runners.

Florio, who also graduated Penn State, likes the marathon course because “there’s so many different segments, like it’s easy to chunk it up. It’s not boring. There’s a ton of fans and there’s so many people I know cheering for me.”

Florio had placed third in 2019, but figured she’d lose ground this year after giving birth to her first child in October 2023.

She finished in 2 hours, 32 minutes, 42 second, 44 seconds faster than second-place finisher, Aberu Mekuria Zennebe.

Find out more about this year’s Philadelphia Marathon in The Philadelphia Inquirer.