9 Cool Images From the Women’s Marathon
Australian Sprinter, 16, Runs Record-Breaking 200m.
A record number of runners started (156) and finished (133) the race.
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While runners were on the course, a party broke out at the Sambodromo, site of the marathon’s start and finish.
Desiree Linden of the U.S. runs past Rio’s Museum of Tomorrow toward the end of the race.
A sculpture outside the Museum of Tomorrow overshadows Claudette Mukasakindi of Rwanda.
Sarah Attar rounds the loop at Batafogo Beach. She became the first woman to complete the Olympic marathon for Saudi Arabia, The Runners World Editors.
Matthias Hangst / Getty. Olympic Trials in February, Amy Cragg helped Shalane Flanagan as a dehydrated Flanagan crossed the finish line. In Rio on Sunday, Flanagan returned the gesture.
Lucas Oleniuk/Getty Images, the first by a Kenyan woman in the Olympic marathon.
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