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Monday 2 November 2015
NYC Marathon position,” Kamworor said. pic trials in the marathon, New York City marathon winners Mary Keitany and Stanley Bi-
“I’m looking forward in the and with many more elite wott, both of Kenya, pose for photographers on the finish line of
Continued from page 17 future, maybe next year, distance runners than the the the New York City marathon, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015 in New
I’ll come back again and three slots allotted, there’s York.
He certainly needed that work hard to win a New no guarantee even an
late speed against coun- York Marathon.” athlete as accomplished Associated Press
tryman Geoffrey Kam- Reigning Boston Mara- as Keitany will make the
woror, who’s more a track thon winner Lelisa Desisa team.
star than a marathoner. was third and defending Against a deep field Sun-
Kamworor won the silver champion was Wilson Kip- day, she made quite the
medal in the 10,000 meters sang fourth. case that she can contend
at the world champion- Desisa and Kipsang both for her first gold.
ships in August. ran the marathon at the “I’m ready to go to try to
In 2011, Keitany led by world championships 10 get the medal in Rio next
nearly 2 1/2 minutes at the weeks ago, though Kip- year,” she said. “It would
15-mile mark but faded to sang didn’t finish because mean a lot to me and also
her second straight third- of the heat in Beijing. to my life.”q
place showing. A two-time American Meb Keflezighi,
London Marathon champ, the 2009 champ, placed
she finally won in New York seventh at age 40 in his
last year by just 3 seconds, 10th NYC Marathon. His
matching the closest finish time of 2:13:32 was a na-
in the history of the wom- tional masters record. Ke-
en’s race. flezighi plans to run at the
U.S. trials Feb. 13 to try to
Confidence was high com- make his fourth Olympic
ing into Sunday, but no team.
matter how good she felt,
Keitany knew to bide her Tatyana McFadden
time.
“At the beginning, I did shattered the women’s
not go because I know the
course in New York,” she wheelchair course re-
said. “Many times I had
run it. So I said, ‘Let me just cord to sweep four major
wait.’”
marathons for the third
She waited for about 21
miles before making her straight year. The 26-year-
move.
“I say, ‘OK, let me just go, old American finished in
and if somebody is more
strong, she can come, and 1:43:04 to again complete
we can go,’” Keitany re-
called. “I was ready to go the Grand Slam of winning
with her, but fortunately
they never got me. So I just in London, Boston, Chica-
crossed the line alone.”
Keitany finished in 2 hours, go and New York, extend-
24 minutes, 25 seconds,
beating Ethiopia’s Asele- ing her record streak.
fech Mergia by more than
a minute. Another Ethio- Ernst Van Dyk of South Af-
pian, reigning London Mar-
athon champ Tigist Tufa, rica won his second NYC
took third, bothered by
pain from her shoes. Marathon title and first
Biwott won in 2:10:34, edg-
ing Kamworor by 14 sec- since 2005 in the men’s
onds.
“I race to win, but I’m wheelchair race.
happy about the second
An unofficial total of 50,229
entrants started the 45th
running of the NYC Mara-
thon. Spike Lee served as
just the third grand marshal
in the race’s history, riding
along the 26.2-mile course
through the five boroughs
in a 1969 Chrysler 300 con-
vertible.
American Laura Thweatt
finished seventh in her mar-
athon debut. She will seek
to qualify for next summer’s
Rio Games on the track.
Kenya doesn’t hold Olym-
