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Rika
Tabashi, 22, of Fukuoka, Japan, finished 11th in 2:41:41.
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Tabashi
was seven minutes behind 10th place and nine minutes ahead of 12th.
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Andrea
Niggemeier, 34, a German citizen who trains in Philadelphia, finished
13th in 2:50:59.
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Niggemeier
trains with the Bryn Mawr Running Company and won the 2003...
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Marathon.
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Angela
Batsford, 23, of London, Ontario, Canada finished 17th among the
women...
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2:57:06. She was displaced by several runners who were part of the
mass start.
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For
the first time ever, the elite women started 30 minutes ahead of
the elite men and the masses.
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It
meant that the women received more attention, but more of them were
running alone much of the way.
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Sayuri
Kusutani of Honolulu, Hawaii ran the race the hard way. She went
through the halfway point in 1:23:49...
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...and
finished 60th in 3:16:13.
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Kusutani,
45, finished 15th in her age group.
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She
is a Japanese citizen.
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Shannon
Hovey, 33, of Simsbury, Connecticut...
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27th in 3:03:30.
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Lee Di Pietro, 46, finished 20th in the women's division...
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fourth in the women's masters division...
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...in
2:58:59. Di Pietro hails from Ruxton, Maryland.
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