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What do you have?
Bedan Karoki 27:37
Duncan Kibet
Ben True
Gemma Steel around 31:30
Gemma Steel edged out Shalane Flanagan in 31:28.
Men
1.Bedan Karoki 27:36
2.Stephen Kibet 27:42
3.Ben True 27:49
4. Patrick Makau 27:56
5. Micah Kogo 28:14
6. Emmanuel Bett 28:18
7. Samuel Chelanga 28:28
8. Markos Geneti 29:38
9. Fernando Cabado 29:46
10. Brian Harvey 29:49
Women
1. Gemma Steel 31:26.5
2. Shalene Flanagan 31:26.5
3. Diane Nukuri-Johnson 31:51
4. Jordan Hasay 32:19
5. Aselefech Mergia 32:30.2
6. Hanae Tanaka 32:30.5
7. Alexi Pappas 32:31
8. Kaho Tanaka 33:00
9. Desiree Linden 33:04
10. Blake Russell 33:10
B2B wrote:
Bedan Karoki 27:37
Duncan Kibet
Ben True
Gemma Steel around 31:30
Oh man... For a second I thought Duncan Kibet was still running. I miss seeing Jamaica on the roads.
pappas had a very good showing there. 4-7 are pretty bunched
sighs, thought Shalane would end America's Winless status at the Beach To Beacon run...
the local paper was calling Stephen Kibet (the actual 2nd place finisher) Duncan Kibet. It would have been an impressive return to form for Jamaica
Bedan Karoki is a beast! I've been following him ever since he got 5th at 2012 Olympic 10k final and he's been very consistent
Broke 60 in the HM in March, then 26:52 in May and PRE, this was nothing to him
Seriously! She is 12 sec behind JH! SF is a level above. Marathon training and still rocked all the 10,000m runners.
FjordFighter wrote:
Men
1.Bedan Karoki 27:36
2.Stephen Kibet 27:42
3.Ben True 27:49
No American had previously run sub-28:30 (Abdi 28:32, KK 28:39, Moran 28:43 were previous American bests). KK ran 27:48 to win in 1999 while still running for Morocco.
Karoki's winning time makes him number two performer behind Gilbert Okari, who has course record at 27:27.
dang, so many runners, so little prize money...
Chris Solinsky - Age grouper extraordinaire!
M25-29 1/279
Congrats Solinsky!
Ol' Meb's got the moves too: beat Solinsky by 3 seconds.
Top 10 from past years:
http://www.beach2beacon.org/top-10-finishers
This info has Keflezighi running 27:58 for 4th in 2007, which (if this is correct) was the fastest USA man & highest USA man's finish prior to today.
Steel's & Flanagan's 31:26 = 4th fastest in this race's history, behind:
Lineth Chepkurui 30:59 (2010)
Wude Alayew 31:07 (2010)
Joyce Chepkurui 31:23 (2013)
= Alventina Ivanova 31:26 (2006)
Shalane was closer to Solinsky than Solinsky was to the winner.
So sad. What a precipitous fall from grace.
^ I see now from looking at the results link above that Flanagan's time is listed as 31:27, so that would be #6.
Wu Ming wrote:
Top 10 from past years:
http://www.beach2beacon.org/top-10-finishersThis info has Keflezighi running 27:58 for 4th in 2007, which (if this is correct) was the fastest USA man & highest USA man's finish prior to today.
Thanks, I missed Meb . . .
Some local Boston, blue collar guys (Brian Harvey and Eric Ashe) mixed it up with the high paid professionals like Solinksy and Meb