It was a weekend to recollect for Rachel Hannah of Port Elgin, Ont., on the sixteenth annual Indianapolis Monumental Marathon on Saturday south of the border. Hannah gained the ladies’s marathon in a brand new course file time of two:35:17.
The 37-year-old marathoner led the race for a lot of the second half, however was caught by Elizabeth Bigelow of Twin Falls, Idaho, with two kilometres to go. Hannah pulled away from Bigelow within the remaining kilometre to etch her identify and time within the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon file books.
Hannah broke the earlier file of two:35:36 by 19 seconds, which had stood since 2019. Bigelow additionally crossed the end line, surpassing the previous file, ending second in 2:35:33. Lucy Dobbs of Indianapolis took third place in 2:36:39.
Hannah talked about that she had supposed to run the Twin Cities Marathon final month, however needed to alter her fall marathon plans after the race was cancelled on the final minute attributable to heat climate. She selected the close by Indianapolis Monumental Marathon due to its flat course and beneficial late-October climate.
“I’m happy with this one,” Hannah wrote in her Strava submit. “Don’t surrender in your targets, my buddies.”
Hannah holds a marathon private finest of two:32:09 from the 2016 Houston Marathon, however her time in Indianapolis marked her quickest time over the gap since 2016.
The boys’s course file was additionally damaged, by Lyle O’Brien of Boulder, Colo., who broke the tape in 2:15:41, beating the earlier file set in 2021 by nearly a minute.
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The 2023 occasion marked the eleventh consecutive sellout of the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon, attracting almost 15,000 members from all 50 states and greater than 25 international locations, together with Costa Rica, Canada, the U.Ok., France and Australia.
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