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Susan Chepkemel had a distant, yet completely accurate, description of her fellow Kenyan Margaret Okayo yesterday: the fast leader. “The fast leader, when she broke off from the group, then I could ...

Okayo shattered the mark she set here in 2001 by nearly 2 minutes Sunday, finishing in 2 hours, 22 minutes, 31 seconds, and then dropped to her knees to kiss the ground. She led a Kenyan contingent ...

NEW YORK -- Margaret Okayo surged past her closest competitors and took the lead with about seven miles to go in the New York City Marathon. Okayo applauded the work ethic of Kenyan and Russian ...

On this same Sunday last year, when the temperature was 25 degrees cooler and her trip through the five boroughs was infinitely less enjoyable, Margaret Okayo’s morning began with acute back pain on ...

Margaret Okayo slumped to her knees, clasping her hands and praying, giving thanks for her New York City Marathon course record. Fellow Kenyan Martin Lel, the son of a Catholic deacon, threw his arms ...