Kamais triumphs in New York marathon
March 23, 2010, Tuesday
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KENYAN Peter Kamais took advantage of an ailing Haile Gebrselassie in the men's race and Mara Yamauchi of Britain rallied in the closing miles to lead the women in the New York City Half-Marathon on Sunday.
Suffering from a cold and asthma symptoms, marathon world record holder Gebrselassie of Ethiopia dropped out of the 13.1-mile race near the nine-mile mark.
Up until his sudden exit, 2007 winner Gebrselassie was in the lead alongside Kamais on a warm, sunny day.
Kamais never looked back in the race through Manhattan as Gebrselassie withdrew as the runners reached Times Square.
The Kenyan won the US$20,000 first prize in 59 minutes 53 seconds, well ahead of compatriot Moses Kigen Kipkosgei.
In the women's race, American Deena Kastor opened up a big lead but Yamauchi reeled her back and grabbed the lead around the 11-mile mark.
Yamauchi won with a course record time of one hour, nine minutes, 25 seconds to collect her US$20,000 purse, taking 18 seconds off the 2006 mark set by Catherine Ndereba of Kenya.
"The first five or six miles I was down in the dumps and Deena went away so fast that I thought, 'Oh well, my race is over,'" Yamauchi told reporters.
"As we went through Times Square and saw that I was closing the gap on her, I just kept on working hard and dug in my heels for the closing miles."
Kastor held off Mexican Madai Perez by two seconds to take second place in a sprint finish in 1:09:43.
More than 11,000 runners started the fifth annual race that was being held in the spring for the first time.
Suffering from a cold and asthma symptoms, marathon world record holder Gebrselassie of Ethiopia dropped out of the 13.1-mile race near the nine-mile mark.
Up until his sudden exit, 2007 winner Gebrselassie was in the lead alongside Kamais on a warm, sunny day.
Kamais never looked back in the race through Manhattan as Gebrselassie withdrew as the runners reached Times Square.
The Kenyan won the US$20,000 first prize in 59 minutes 53 seconds, well ahead of compatriot Moses Kigen Kipkosgei.
In the women's race, American Deena Kastor opened up a big lead but Yamauchi reeled her back and grabbed the lead around the 11-mile mark.
Yamauchi won with a course record time of one hour, nine minutes, 25 seconds to collect her US$20,000 purse, taking 18 seconds off the 2006 mark set by Catherine Ndereba of Kenya.
"The first five or six miles I was down in the dumps and Deena went away so fast that I thought, 'Oh well, my race is over,'" Yamauchi told reporters.
"As we went through Times Square and saw that I was closing the gap on her, I just kept on working hard and dug in my heels for the closing miles."
Kastor held off Mexican Madai Perez by two seconds to take second place in a sprint finish in 1:09:43.
More than 11,000 runners started the fifth annual race that was being held in the spring for the first time.
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