Saturday, November 3, 2007

Hall captures U.S. Olympic marathon trials victory

NEW YORK -- Ryan Hall, Dathan Ritzenhein and Brian Sell won spots on the men's marathon team for the Beijing Olympics by finishing 1-2-3 Saturday at the U.S. trials.

All three made the Olympics in the marathon for the first time.

Hall, who had never run a marathon before April, won in a trials record time of 2 hours, 9 minutes, 2 seconds after running five loops around Central Park.

He was followed by Ritzenhein in 2:11:07 and Sell in 2:11:40.

Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press


Source: ESPN.com

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