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Jen
Rhines moved into third in the final 400 meters and grabbed the
final spot on the Olympic team.
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Rhines
set an 11+ minute PR of 2:29:57 and qualified for her second Olympic
team, her first in the marathon.
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Deena
Kastor (right) welcomed her Team USA California teammate with open
arms at the finish line. Kastor, Colleen De Reuck...
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...and
Rhines teamed up to win a silver medal in the 8K at the 2002 World
Cross Country Championships.
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Blake
Russell ran a courageous race, but in the end she just missed making
her first Olympic team, finishing fourth in 2:30:32.
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Russell
PRed by nine seconds in what was just her second marathon.
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Magdalena
Lewy Boulet took more of a conservative approach...
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...throughout
and had one of the quickest finishes of the top five. Lewy Boulet...
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...a
native of Poland who earned her U.S. citizenship in 2001, finished
fifth in 2:30:50.
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Heather
Hanscom had what was probably the biggest breakthrough of anyone
in the race.
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Hanscom,
26, finished sixth in 2:31:53 in her second marathon.
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Hanscom
made her marathon debut at the 2003 Marine Corps Marathon...
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...where
she won the race in 2:37:59. Hanscom is a 2001 graduate of James
Madison University.
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2003
USA Marathon Champion Sara Wells ran a PR in her second marathon,
finishing...
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...seventh
here in 2:33:15. Wells' PR was all the more impressive considering
that...
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...she
had to cross train much of the winter due to a stress fracture...
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...in
her spine. Wells, 25, graduated from Oklahoma State in 2001...
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...and
was an NCAA Division I All American.
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Deeja
Youngquist came in with the third-fastest qualifying time...
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...a
2:29:01 from the 2003 Chicago Marathon, and finished eighth here
in 2:34:21.
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