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Kenya's Amon Kemboi, Ethiopia's Melknat Wudu Sharew win Falmouth Road Race titles
On the women's side, Melknat Wudu Sharew of Ethiopia bested the field with a winning time of 36:03, just ahead of American Emma Grace Hurley, who finished as the runner-up in 36:04, a 21-second improvement from her fourth-place run one year ago.
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Hurley held a one-second edge at the 5k mark, and the pair was neck and neck at 10k before Sharew turned on the jets in the final moments to win by one second.
Edna Kiplagat of Kenya, the 2021 Falmouth champion and a two-time Boston Marathon champion (2017, 2021), finished fourth in 36:35.
Zouhair Talbi was the top American on the men's side, finishing fifth in 32 minutes flat.
The winners in the men's and women's elite fields each received $10,000 of the total $94,000 purse, while the top American finishers each received an additional $3,000.
More than 11,000 runners participated in the race.
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