In photo below, Mark Malander (3rd master) escorts Eunice Chepkirui (3rd woman) to a matching 33:37 finish.

Speed trumped stamina in both the men's and women's races at the 23rd Sallie Mae 10K on Hains Point. Julius Kibet, who awoke at 3:00 am and drove three hours to Washington from West Chester, PA, broke away from his training partner (traveling partner, as well), Rebuen Chebii, and their fellow Kenyan Benson Cheruiyot in the final 300 meters to win in 28 minutes 51 seconds. Chebii (23) finished second in 28:52 and Cheruiyot (23) third in 28:53.

"I knew I had the finishing speed," said men's winner Kibet. "But I also knew the other guys were good."

Kibet (24) was pleased to add a win to his barnstorming tour of U.S. road races after finishing third at the Cooper River Bridge Run 10K (28:52) in Charleston, SC on April 1 and fifth at the Crescent City 10K (28:13) in New Orleans on April 15. Kibet will race twice on the West Coast and once in Michigan before heading home to Kenya in May.

Another Kenyan, Lineth Chepkurui (18), based in Chapel Hill, NC, did the early risers one better, traveling from Austin the day before after racing--and winning--the Texas Round-Up 10K, then rising at 2:00 am for the five-hour drive to Washington. Chepkuri ran 33:02, exactly one minute faster than her time in Austin, to outdistance Olga Romanova by three seconds. The men and women's winner each earned $500.

Aside from travel fatigue, Chepkurui said she felt pressure--literally--from runner-up Romanova, who clipped Chepkurui's heels a couple of times. "It was frustrating," Chepkurui said. "I told her to stop it." Chepkurui put an end to the contact by gapping Romanova in the final mile.

"She's a very nervous runner," Romanova said of Chepkurui. "When she's running in the front, her legs just stop. She's a very good runner, but those things happen. No one else complains."

Eunice Chepkirui (21), another Kenyan from West Chester, finished third in 33:37, and Florence Jepkosgie (22), also from Kenya and training in Chapel Hill, was fourth in 34:29. Lyubov Kremleva (45) was the masters winner, good for $500. She was fifth in 35:12 to complete an all-Kenyan and Russian top five.

African men took the top 10 places. Joshua Kemei (22) from West Chester was fourth in 29:41 and St. Patrick's Day 8K winner Gurmessa Kumsa (27), from Ethiopia, was fifth in 29:51. Albert Okemwa (40) took the masters title in 30:39, ninth overall. Okemwa, from Kenya, ran 31:00 to win the masters title in Austin one day earlier.

Patrick MacAdie (22) [In photo left] from Washington, DC was the first American, 11th overall. But he was not particularly pleased with the distinction.

"I'm tired of being the first American," MacAdie said. "I had nothing special today, I couldn't dig. I need to be more consistent with my training. I'm not going to race again until I'm really ready."

Notes: A field of 1,877 registered for the event and 1,322 finished on a picture-perfect morning for racing. Henryk Bukowski (85), from Falls Church, VA was the oldest finisher and averaged sub-12:00 miles.

Awards Listing - Men

MALE Open
    1    67 Julius Kibet            24 West Chester PA      28:51#  500 
    2    69 Reuben Chebii           23 West Chester PA      28:52#  450 
    3    58 Benson Cheruiyot        23 Chapel Hill NC       28:53#  400 
    4    56 Joshua Kemei            22 West Chester PA      29:41#  350 
    5    81 Gurmessa Kumsa          27 Oxon Hill MD         29:51#  300 
    6    49 Demesse Tefera          23 Arlington VA         30:00#  250 
    7    59 Jyncoel Basweti         19 Chapel Hill NC       30:03*  200 
    8  1533 Kigen Evans             22 Windsor Mill MD      30:04   150 
    9    68 Mohammed Ar-Ar          36 West Chester PA      30:45*  100 
   10    52 Patrick MacAdie         22 Washington DC        31:00    50 
# Under USATF OPEN guideline    
* Under USATF Age-Group guideline


MALE Masters
    1    62 Albert Okemwa           40 Chapel Hill NC       30:39*  500 
    2    90 John Tuttle             47 Villa Rica GA        32:29*  450 
    3    99 Mark Malander           48 Oak Hill VA          33:37*  400 
    4    98 Chris Chattin           42 Columbia MD          33:51   350 
    5    54 Greg Cauller            46 York PA              33:58*  300 
    6    47 Joe Cresko              40 Arlington VA         34:03   250 
    7    55 Tom Stevens             50 Middletown MD        34:31*  200 
    8  1812 Dave Berardi            46 Baltimore MD         34:39   150 
    9   854 Robert Johnson          48 Woodbridge VA        35:21   100 
   10    86 Dan Lawson              50 Gaithersburg MD      35:29*   50 


MALE AGE GROUP:  13 & Younger
    1   915 Wendall Brown           12 District Height MD   39:16* 
    2  1433 Zach Queen              13 Vienna VA            41:29  
    3   742 Garrett Taylor          13 Arlington VA         56:36  


MALE AGE GROUP:  14 - 19
    1  1494 Dominick Cice           18 Washington DC        37:03  
    2  1643 Alexander Mahoney       15 Clarksville MD       38:11  
    3  1809 William Howerton        19 Concord MA           38:34  


MALE AGE GROUP:  20 - 29
    1   959 Allen Wagner            25 Philadelphia PA      31:49  
    2    48 Zereu Gebrmedhw         25 Washington DC        31:53  
    3    71 Nick Gramsky            28 Vienna VA            31:59  


MALE AGE GROUP:  30 - 39
    1  1751 Pavel Frelich           35 Chevy Chase MD       35:18  
    2  1566 Mark Schafer            34 Alexandria VA        36:33  
    3  1819 Brian Farley            31 Washington DC        36:42  


MALE AGE GROUP:  40 - 44
    1  1331 Rembert Pieper          42 Washington DC        39:26  
    2   732 Cliff Samodurov         40 Herndon VA           39:46  
    3  1303 Ron Bryan               40 Herndon VA           39:46  


MALE AGE GROUP:  45 - 49
    1  1000 Charles Logan           45 Washington DC        36:25  
    2  1631 Jack Morrison           46 Hartwood VA          37:35  
    3  1609 Stephen Curran          47 Washington DC        37:59  


MALE AGE GROUP:  50 - 59
    1  1565 Mike Hart               50 Washington DC        36:18* 
    2    91 Mike Fitzgerald         51 Hagerstown MD        37:53  
    3   157 Dan Eddy                54 Alexandria VA        38:13  
    4    79 David Webster           53 Stevensville MD      38:22  


MALE AGE GROUP:  60 - 69
    1  1401 Ben Dyer                63 Petersburg VA        41:18  
    2    85 John Elliott            67 Columbia MD          42:25* 
    3   791 Donald Hensel           61 Gaithersburg MD      44:29  
    4   120 Jim Moser               60 Fairfax VA           46:34  


MALE AGE GROUP:  70 - 79
    1   715 Jack McMahon            75 Rockville MD         53:28* 
    2  1276 Robert Moore            74 Alexandria VA      1:03:36  
    3   578 Marcel Bitoun           79 Washington DC      1:22:18  


MALE AGE GROUP:  80 - 89
    1   749 Henryk Bukowski         85 Falls Church VA    1:13:22* 


* Under USATF Age-Group guideline

Awards Listing - Women

FEMALE Open
    1    61 Lineth Chepkurui        18 Chapel Hill NC       33:02#  500 
    2    95 Olga Romanova           25 Germantown MD        33:05#  450 
    3    57 Eunice Chepkirui        21 West Chester PA      33:37#  400 
    4    60 Florence Jepkosgei      22 Chapel Hill NC       34:29#  350 
    5    53 Vicki Cauller           33 York PA              35:48   300 
    6    63 Casey Smith             26 Arlington VA         36:22   250 
    7    77 Hilary Cairns           35 Washington DC        37:41   200 
    8    87 Marie Knight            28 Arlington VA         41:12   150 
    9  1474 Sarah Eargle            17 Perry Hall MD        41:56   100 
   10  1097 Katie Sheedy            23 Arlington VA         42:39    50 


# Under USATF OPEN guideline


FEMALE Masters
    1    70 Lyubov Kremleva         45 West Chester PA      35:12*  500 
    2    66 Laurel Park             43 Ann Arbor MI         35:18*  450 
    3    89 Maria Spinnler          44 Hagerstown MD        39:13   400 
    4    97 Robyn Humphrey          42 Ellicott City MD     39:37   350 
    5    84 Win Persina             46 Washington DC        40:24*  300 
    6   820 Laura Nelson            40 Woodstock MD         40:33   250 
    7    92 Betty Blank             53 Baileys Xrds VA      42:48*  200 
    8   894 Laeticia Warring        43 Reston VA            43:13   150 
    9   897 Neile Quintero          40 Washington DC        43:55   100 
   10  1582 Blake Rushin            44 Vienna VA            46:06    50 


FEMALE AGE GROUP:  13 & Younger
    1  1162 Casey Sheehan           13 Leesburg VA          54:05  


FEMALE AGE GROUP:  14 - 19
    1  1496 Morganne Rosenhaus      19 Washington DC        44:27  
    2  1448 Erin Swanson            17 Santa Ana CA         46:39  
    3  1413 Meaghan Stakelin        19 Washington DC        48:17  


FEMALE AGE GROUP:  20 - 29
    1  1808 Megan Baldwin           21 Washington DC        43:05  
    2   447 Emily Ruppel            20 Washington DC        43:23  
    3  1254 Dorothy Chou            20 Washington DC        43:28  


FEMALE AGE GROUP:  30 - 39
    1  1381 Kristen Corallo         34 Alexandria VA        43:25  
    2  1322 Robin Martz             35 Arlington VA         43:38  
    3   598 Nancy Eiring            32 Washington DC        44:27  


FEMALE AGE GROUP:  40 - 49
    1  1685 Cori Asaka              44 Alexandria VA        47:15  
    2  1166 Michelle Gerhard        46 Columbia MD          48:45  
    3   937 Charmaine Davis         43 Silver Spring MD     48:53  


FEMALE AGE GROUP:  50 - 59
    1  1781 Ginny Hughes            55 Warrenton VA         48:22* 
    2   697 Naomi Stanford          55 Washington DC        49:07  
    3    78 Liza Recto              50 Lexington Park MD    49:16  
    4   566 Debra Stencel           50 Washington DC        52:10  


FEMALE AGE GROUP:  60 - 69
    1   729 Chris Craun             60 Bethesda MD          47:28* 
    2   655 Priscila Prunella       62 Rockville MD         50:10* 
    3  1735 Yolanda Perez           64 Silver Spring MD     51:55* 
    4  1208 Lynne Hays              60 Arlington VA         53:11  


FEMALE AGE GROUP:  70 - 79
    1  1720 Ann Coquelin            72 Alexandria VA      1:05:44* 
    2  1730 Jacqueline O'Neil       74 Washington DC      1:15:08  


* Under USATF Age-Group guideline

Race Day Report for 2006
Full Race Day Results
Sallie Mae 10K Raises More than $250,000
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