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Scotland's Lemonchello wins Las Vegas Marathon

Xinhua, November 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

Scotland's Andrew Lemonchello won the Las Vegas Marathon on Sunday night in two hours, 21 minutes, 47 seconds in cold wind and rain.  

   Panama's Williana Rojas won the women's race in 3:08.18.  

   The 33-year-old, an Olympic steeplechase competitor in 2008, pulled away with 10 miles left.  

   "The winds were ferocious out there. It's always hard running by yourself. Today with the wind, you play mental games with yourself. You keep saying to yourself, 'one more mile, one more mile,'" said Lemonchello. 

   Tommy Rivers Puzey was second at 2:34.36. 

   Rojas, 22, held off Canada's Jen Annett by 19 seconds.  

   In the half marathon, Jeffery Eggleston of Boulder, Colorado, won the men's race in 1:04.40, and Jennifer Bergman of Portland, Oregon, took the women's title in 1:15.22.  

   Teddy Kassa of Torrance, California, won the men's 10-kilometer race in 33.37, and Emily Schulik of Houston topped the women's field in 41.24.  Endi