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, took the lead just past halfway and ran solo 20 to 25 seconds ahead of a large chase pack until the last mile. Then Salazar and former steeplechaser John Tuttle chased him down. Salazar eased into the lead just before the 26-mile mark and looked set to meet the prerace predictions.
But Pfitzinger had other ideas. First he passed Tuttle. Then he pulled alongside Salazar with less than 100 meters to go and kicked hard. Salazar, at one point looking down at his feet, couldn’t match the increase in pace. Pfitzinger won by one second in a personal best of 2:11:43. At the Olympics three months later, Pfitzinger again defeated Salazar, finishing as the top American in 11th. Salazar ran uncharacteristically cautiously and was never a factor, placing 15th. That Olympic race was the last time Salazar finished a conventional marathon. Pfitzinger also made the team in 1988 and was the top American at that year’s Olympics in 14th place.Bob Kempainen of Minnetonka, Minnesota, takes the lead in the 1996 Olympic Marathon Trials held in Charlotte, North Carolina.
It turned out he was throwing up. Yet other than those few stutter steps, he kept motoring along, running the 23rd and 24th miles in 4:42 and 4:33, respectively. Coogan, who placed second, marveled after the race that at sub-5:00 mile pace yet pulling away. Kempainen ran 2:12:45 to finish 20 seconds ahead of Coogan and 39 seconds up on Brantly, the third team member.[Build your personalized and adaptive
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