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Monday, April 19, 1999
Londoners reject marathon record
REUTERS
LONDON, APRIL 18: Joyce Chepchumba collected $ 125,000 today for winning the London Women's Marathon in time organisers consider to be the true world best. The Kenyan clocked 2:23:22 seconds, two seconds inside Romanian Lidia Simon's mark set in Osaka, Japan on January 31.London officials have refused to recognise the official world best of 2:20:47 set by Kenyan Tegla Loroupe in Rotterdam, Netherlands last year because she was openly assisted by male runners in a mixed event. Moroccan Abdelkader El Mouaziz, who led by 100 metres with only two kms to run last year only to lose to Spain's world champion Abel Anton, made no mistake this time in the men's race. Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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