Course record bonus will be raised to $30,000 in 2012
by NYRR
NEW YORK (May 14, 2011) - Leonard Patrick Komon of Kenya strengthened his position as the hottest distance runner on the planet when he defeated one of the finest 10K fields ever assembled and broke the Central Park 10K record at the UAE Healthy Kidney 10K. Komon's time of 27:35 took seven seconds off Ethiopian Gebre Gebremariam's winning 27:42 from last year and earned him a $20,000-course record
bonus, which, added to the $25,000 winner's purse, made Komon's payday the highest for the winner of any non-marathon race in the United States.
