New York City Marathon results 2009
New York City Marathon Results 2009 NYC Marathon Results: Meb Keflezighi wins. Meb Keflezighi to win New York Marathon is celebrated in the U.S. but also in Asmara. Asmara is the capital of Eritrea, who was born and raised.
He is the first American to win a marathon in New York more than ten years and three people in the U.S. succeed.
Meb Keflezighi is the American athlete specializing in long distance running, especially marathons.
His family had to fight just as his country is embroiled in a war of independence against Ethiopia. They tried to get out of this corner of Africa nation to improve lives.
The fact that the U.S. was a difficult task. His family went first to Italy, where they spend years before they can land in the USA.
In 2004 Summer Olympic Games, MEB finished second in the marathon with the men won a silver medal in a personal season best time of 2 hours, 11 minutes and 29 seconds.
Keflezighi finished 42 seconds before the Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima, who led the marathon until he was pushed off course on the protesters Cornelius Horan.
This was the first American medal won in an Olympic marathon since Frank Shorter won the gold at the Olympics in 1972 and took a silver medal at the Olympic Games 1976 in Montreal.
While a student at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) MEB won four NCAA titles in the same years: the NCAA Cross Country Championships, 5000 m indoor NCAA championships and two victories in 5000 and 10,000 meters Outdoor Championships in 1997.
His performance earned him the title “greatest lines in the history of UCLA.”
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