{"id":50730,"date":"2017-11-06T05:40:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T05:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=50730"},"modified":"2017-11-06T05:40:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T05:40:01","slug":"american-woman-wins-nyc-marathon-for-1st-time-in-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/american-woman-wins-nyc-marathon-for-1st-time-in-40-years.html","title":{"rendered":"American woman wins NYC Marathon for 1st time in 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

American woman wins NYC Marathon for 1st time in 40 years<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

American woman wins NYC Marathon for 1st time in 40 years:- It’s been a long time running — four decades to be exact — since an American woman broke the finish line tape at the New York City Marathon, but Olympic medalist Shalane Flanagan did just that on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n

With an unofficial time of 2 hours, 26 minutes and 53 seconds, the 36-year-old Flanagan beat three-time defending champion Mary Keitany of Kenya by a minute and one second. Times won’t be official until later this month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Flanagan crossed the finish line in tears before proudly holding the Stars and Stripes aloft. She smiled for the crowd as she wrapped herself in the American flag.<\/span><\/p>\n

City rises up for runners<\/span><\/p>\n

She called the moment “indescribable,” according to CNN affiliate WABC, and wept again on the podium as her name was announced.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s a moment I’m trying to soak up and savor,” she said, according to the station. “This is the moment I’ve dreamed of since I was a little girl.”<\/span><\/p>\n

It was the first time an American took the women’s title since 1977 when Japanese-American Miki Gorman won her second consecutive NYC Marathon with a time of 2 hours, 43 minutes and 10 seconds. Gorman was 42 at the time. (The last American man to win the race was Meb Keflezighi, in 2009.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The race was held amid heightened security after a terror attack that killed eight people on a popular bike path in Manhattan last week.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Marblehead, Massachusetts, native who now calls Portland, Oregon, home, Flanagan will doubtless have to find room in her trophy cabinet for her latest honors.<\/span><\/p>\n

She holds the American records for the 3,000-meter indoor and 5,000-meter indoor races. Flanagan also took bronze in the 10,000-meter contest at the 2008 Olympics, but in March, the International Association of Athletics Federations ruled that the silver medalist, Turkey’s Elvan Abeylegesse, was being sanctioned for a positive doping case and was disqualified for a two-year period that included the Beijing Games, making Flanagan’s the second-fastest time.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a student at the University of North Carolina, Flanagan also snared the school’s first individual cross-country title in 2002, a feat she repeated in 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n

Flanagan made her debut at the NYC Marathon in 2010, finishing second with a time of 2 hours, 28 minutes and 40 seconds — at the time, the best finish by an American woman in 20 years. Before this year, she hadn’t competed in the race since 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the men’s side, Kenyan Geoffrey Kamworor beat out countryman and 2014 winner Wilson Kipsang for his first major marathon victory, with a time of 2 hours, 10 minutes and 53 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the wheelchair event, the Swiss dominated with Manuela Schar tops among women and Marcel Hug finishing first among the men.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2017\/11\/05\/sport\/shalane-flanagan-new-york-city-marathon-first-american-woman-40-years\/index.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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