Ethiopias Askale Merachi won 2019 LA Marathons womens race in a course record 2 hours, 24 minutes, 11 seconds on Sunday morning.
“I knew I was going to win from the beginning,” Merachi said. “This morning.”
Indeed Merachi seemed to be in a hurry almost from the moment the race left Dodger Stadium at dawn. Merachi dropped out of the New York City Marathon last fall with hamstring and shoulder injuries was clearly restless through the early stages Sunday, pushing the pace.
By the fourth mile, Merachis aggressiveness had thinned the lead group from nine to three, only Kenyas Cynthia Jerop and Lucy Karimi keeping pace. Karimi was the big pre-race question mark. She won the 2016 Prague Marathon in 2:24:46 but beset by injuries had not finished a marathon since.
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