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Kenyan duo wins
Boston Marathon
By Bert Rosenthal
The Associated Press
BOSTON — First, it was the
Kenyan men. Now, the women
are winning the Boston Marathon.
Kenya’s domination in Boston
extended to a record 10 consecu
tive victories Monday, as Elijah
Lagat out-kicked Ethiopia’s Geza
henge Abera and Kenya’s Moses
Tanui in the closest finish in the
race’s 104-year history.
Lagat and Abera were both
timed in 2 hours, 9 minutes, 47
seconds, with Tanui three sec
onds back.
The women’s ending wasn’t as
close but it was still the same: A
Kenyan wearing the laurel wreath.
Catherine Ndereba, competing
in only her third marathon, pulled
away in the final mile and became
the first Kenyan winner, at
2:26:11. Ndereba thwarted the bid
of Ethiopia’s Fatuma Roba to be
come the first competitor — male
or female — to win the race four
consecutive times.
The struggling Roba finished
third at 2:26:27, the same time as
runner-up Irina Bogacheva of Kyr
gyzstan, who came from behind
and beat her in the final stride.
Like the men, the women’s fin
ish was the closest ever between
the top two and among the top
three runners.
“I’m going to the Olympics and
represent my country,” said Lagat,
who took up running profession
ally only after his doctor told him
in 1992 that he had a heart condi
tion and might die.
With this race being an Olympic
qualifier for the Kenyan men’s
Olympic team, Lagat and Tanui
earned places on the squad, joining
Kenneth Cheruyiot, winner of
Sunday’s Rotterdam Marathon.
The 33-year-old Lagat said his
doctor warned him that he had a
lot of fat around his heart and
urged him to lose weight. At the
time, he weighed 158 1/2 pounds.
Now, he weighs 125 1/2.
“After I started running, my
heart problem disappeared,” he
said. “I’m OK now.”
Make that sensational.
Staying with the lead pack
throughout the race, the persistent
Lagat came into the final stretch
locked in a dramatic duel with
Abera and Tanui, the 1996 and
1998 winner.
The three exchanged the lead a
couple of times, and with less
than a half-mile remaining, it ap
peared Tanui would go on to his
third victory.
But Lagat was not to be denied,
and his final surge enabled him to
edge the charging Abera as Tanui
faded.
Abera, running on his 22nd
birthday, contended the Kenyans
were kicking and pushing him.
“I can’t say it was intentional,”
he said, “but it was a strain on my
muscles.”
Tanui, the most experienced
runner in the men’s elite field, ad
mitted he made his move too early.
“Everybody gets to make a mis
take, and that was my mistake,”
the 34-year-old Kenyan said. “I
felt strong at the end, but I was too
nervous.”
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