Women’s field narrowing near mile 9
Posted August 5th, 2007 at 7:45 AM by Nathan Schiller
Section: News & Results, Marathons, Special Features, Live Race Coverage
Through the first six miles over the rolling hills of Central Park, a number of top women’s runners managed to stay together. This is in stark contrast to the men’s race, where shortly after exiting the Park one man broke away from everyone and opened a huge lead.
As the women entered onto the West Side Highway just after mile 9, there were three top women, including last year’s winner, Catherine Ndereba, Hilda Kibet, and Madai Perez. They hit the 15K mark in 50:39.
Three seconds behind them is current fourth place runner Yuri Kano of Japan, with Nina Rillstone of New Zealand one second behind her. Megumi Oshima of Japan has faded to 8 seconds behind the leaders.
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