PHILADELPHIA (AP) — American runner Daniel Vassallo and the Netherlands’ Mariska Kramer outpaced a record field of about 11,000 runners to win Sunday’s Philadelphia Marathon.
Twenty-five-year-old Vassallo, of Wilmington, Mass. completed the 26.2-mile course in two hours, 21 minutes, 28 seconds. He finished comfortably ahead of runnerup David Bedoya of Somerville, Mass., who had a time of 2:23.37.
Thirty-six-year-old Kramer, of Drachten, the Netherlands, clocked in at 2:38.55. Forty-nine-year-old Ramilia Burangulova, of Russia, who trains in nearby Havertown, Pa., was second in 2:40.32.
Vassallo had sports hernia surgery July 8 and planned to run only the half-marathon but said his recovery and training went so well that he decided to run the full marathon after all.
