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NYC Marathon: Radcliffe Wins Women's Race; Gomes dos Santos Wins Men's Race
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Jen Chung
Published Nov 2, 2008
Modified Nov 2, 2008
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Photograph of Paula Radcliffe running on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, followed by Kara Goucher, by Jason DeCrow/AP
On a very windy day, Paula Radcliffe, last year's ING NYC Marathon winner, won the women's race today with a time of 2:23:556. Radcliffe had looked to the NYC Marathon as her redemption, after a stress fracture earlier this year and a 23rd place finish at the Beijing Olympics. Second place winner was 40-year-old Ludmila Petrova, the 2000 winner, at 2:25:43
Kara Goucher finished third (2:25:53), the first American woman in 14 years to place in the marathon--and this was her very first marathon. Goucher was born in Queens, but her family moved from New York soon after her father was killed by a drunk driver in 1982. She told the Daily News her mother and sisters would be cheering for her, "This is a very big deal for my family, a lot more so than the Olympics. It's where we were all born and grew up and began our lives together. Just knowing that they're here kind of makes everything more complete for me."
And just now, Brazilian Marilson Gomes dos Santos, who won in 2006, won the men's race with a time of 2:08:43. Second place finished is Abderrahim Goumri of Morocco; Goumri also finished second last year. Daniel Rono of Kenya finished third (2:11:22) and previous marathon winner Paul Targat, also of Kenya, finished fourth (2:13:10).
Gomes dos Santos said the crowds in Central Park really inspired him to keep going and to overtake the lead at Central Park South. Check out the NY Times' blog about the men's race.
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