Jyocel Basweti, a 22-year-old from Kenya, won the 31st SunTrust Richmond Marathon men’s race this morning with a time of 2:22:22.
Kristin Price, a 26-year-old from Raleigh, N.C., who once served as an assistant track coach at the University of Richmond, won the women’s marathon in 2:45:03.
Basweti defeated runnerup Mohamed Awol, the 2007 SunTrust champion, by nearly two and a half minutes on a warm and increasingly windy day.
The marathon caps a morning of running in Richmond including the McDonald’s Half Marathon and nTELOS 8K
—Vic Dorr Jr.
- Republished from inRich.com
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