New York City Marathon: Women to watch
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Hide captionBezunesh Deba is a frequent race winner throughout the Northeast. In both 2008 and 2009, she won both the 5K and the 10K at the Fred d'Elia Ridgewood Run. This year, she won a pair of 5Ks in identical times of 15:58 and her first marathon in 2:44:22.
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Hide captionChristelle Daunay broke her own French marathon record by more than two and a half minutes when she finished third in the Paris Marathon this year, after running 2:31:48 to take 20th place in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Marathon.
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Hide captionDerartu Tulu has excelled in track, road racing, and cross country. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist at 10,000m and she won the 2000 World Cross Country Championship. She finished 5th in her debut marathon (Boston, 1997) and set her personal record of 2:23:30 when she finished 4th at the 2005 World Championships Marathon in Helsinki.
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Hide captionA frequent race winner in the Northeast, Heidi Westover won two marathons in 2008 and set a personal best of 2:41:09 in a third, the Boston Marathon. She obliterated that time this year with her victorious 2:35:02 at the KeyBank Vermont City Marathon in Burlington.
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Hide captionA frequent podium finisher on the Northeast road-racing scene, Hirut Mandefro made a breakthrough this year at the Naples Daily News Half-Marathon in Florida when she took third place in 1:13:36 -- more than five minutes faster than her fourth-place time from the previous year.
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Hide captionJoan Benoit Samuelson set a women's world record (2:22:43) in the 1983 Boston Marathon and won the inaugural women's Olympic Marathon in 1984. Her 2:21:21 winning time at the 1985 Chicago Marathon stood as the American record for 18 years. Last year, at age 50, she ran the U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon and broke the U.S. women's 50+ record with her 2:49:08.
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Hide captionA competitive duathlete in her native Slovakia, Katarina Janosikova moved to New York City in 2004. In her marathon debut in the ING New York City Marathon last year, she surprised herself by leading all local finishers with her 2:42:57. She set a half-marathon PR of 1:16:14 on October 3. Janosikova is coached by 2004 New Zealand Olympian John Henwood.
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Hide captionLudmila Petrova, the 2000 New York City Marathon champion, set the world masters (age 40 and over) record last year with her second-place 2:25:43. She has finished on the podium three times at the London Marathon, including a pair of second-place finishes and a personal best and Russian national record (2:21:29) in 2006.
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Hide captionMagdalena Lewy Boulet ran a personal-best 2:30:19 to take second place at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Boston. In the Beijing Olympic Marathon, she was forced to drop out with a badly bruised knee. She set a personal record of 32:20.45 for 10,000m at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships.
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Hide captionPaula Radcliffe is the defending ING New York City Marathon champion and the greatest female marathoner in history. She has won eight of the 10 marathons that she has started, the only exceptions being the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Marathons, before both of which she was injured. Her world record of 2:15:25 is more than three minutes faster than any other woman has ever run.
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Hide captionSalina Kosgei won one of the closest finishes in marathon history when she outleaned defending champion Dire Tune to win this year's Boston Marathon. She ran 2:06.86 for 800 meters at age 15 and is a formidable kicker.A proven big-race performer, Kosgei took 10th place in the Beijing Olympic Marathon.
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Hide captionA graduate of Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Yuri Kano ran 2:24:43 in her 2007 marathon debut in Osaka. She won the 2008 Sapporo Half-Marathon in a personal-best 1:08:57. Kano finished fourth in the NYC Half-Marathon in 2007 and third in 2008. Her ING New York debut has historic potential: No Japanese man or woman has ever won the race.
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