Ruth White prime Maine girls’s finisher at Seashore to Beacon
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The primary finishers of the Seashore to Beacon 10K in Cape Elizabeth ran over the end line simply half-hour after the starter’s gun was fired.
Crossing the end line to win the boys’s general division with an unofficial clock time of 27:55 was Addisu Yihune, of Ethiopia, in accordance with the Portland Press Herald. And Hellen Obiri was winner of the ladies’s general division, with an unofficial time of 31:36.
Obiri, a two-time Olympic silver medalist within the 5,000 meters, received the ladies’s division of the Boston Marathon in 2:21:38 on April 17.
Ruth White was the highest girls’s finisher from Maine, in accordance with the Portland newspaper, with an unofficial time of 34:56. The rising junior, who captured the three,200 title on the New England Excessive College Observe and Discipline championships at Cameron Stadium in Bangor with a private greatest time of 10:30.49, was named Maine Gatorade Women Out of doors Observe and Discipline Participant of the Yr in June.
Ending as Maine’s prime males’s runner was Matt Rand of Portland, who crossed the road at an unofficial run time of 30:44.
This yr’s 10K, which stretches between Crescent Seashore State Park on Route 77 and the Portland Head Gentle, is celebrating its twenty fifth yr.
Joan Benoit Samuelson, who received the primary girls’s Olympic marathon in 1984 and is two-time Boston Marathon champion, made an look on the race this yr. The famend Mainer, who based the Seashore to Beacon in 1998, participates within the race each 5 years.
Whereas the primary finishers made it throughout the road in properly beneath an hour, different racers will proceed their journey to the Portland Head Gentle by means of the morning.
