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Marchant, 32, finished 24th in the marathon in 2:33:08. In the 10,000 meters, she was 25th in 32:04.21. She had 46 hours between the events.
Marchant, a criminal defense attorney based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is the first Canadian to compete in both events at the Olympics.
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How Some Notables Fared in the Womens Marathon
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Lily, who had the slowest PR of the three coming into the race, finished 97th in 2:48:29. She was followed by Leila, who was 114th in 2:54:38. Liina did not finish the race.
Leila has the fastest personal best of the trio with a 2:37:12. Liina has a personal best of 2:39:42, and Lily has run 2:40:30.
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A first at 26.2 for Saudi Arabia
Four years after competing in the 800 meters for Saudi Arabia as the first female Olympic runner for the country, Sarah Attar upped her game by taking on the marathon.
The Saudi-American finished the race in 3:16:11. Attar competed fully covered—wearing full-length leggings, a long-sleeved shirt, and a cap—and placed 132nd. She was one of four female Saudi athletes competing in the Olympics in 2016 in hopes of encouraging more young girls in the nation to take up athletics.
Another set of sisters, twins Hye-Song and Hye-Gyong Kim of North Korea, finished together in 10th and 11th place, with an identical time of 2:28:36.
And German twins Anna and Lisa Hahner finished 81st and 82nd. Anna's time was 2:45:32, and Lisa was a second later at 2:45:33.
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Vrabcova Nyvltova of the Czech Republic, who was 13th as part of a cross-country skiing relay at the 2010 Winter Olympics, finished 26th in 2:33:51.
