...feat echoed by the women when Kenyan Catherine Ndereba sprinted ahead of Kyrgyzstan's Irina Bogacheva and favorite Fatuma Roba to win in 2:26:11. Two years ago, Ndereba would have been just as unlikely a winner as Lagat -- she had just...

...women's race by nearly one-third of a mile, pulling away from three-time winner and 1996 Olympic gold medalist Fatuma Roba about 17 miles in. The winners each received $80,000 from the total purse of $525,000. "The only reason Catherine...