Kenyan, Ohioan are top finishers in Twin Cities Marathon

TWIN CITIES

The race resumed after 2023 heat cancellation

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Jen Van Otterloo, of Waterloo Iowa, celebrates her sixth place women’s finish during the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon in St. Paul on Sunday. JOHN AUTEY — PIONEER PRESS

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After a heat wave led to the cancellation of the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon last year, the race was back on track Sunday with race-time temperatures in the low 50s and sunny skies. The online downside for runners, gusty winds.

Shadrack Kimining, 28, of Kenya, and Molly Bookmyer, 33, of Ohio, took first place in the 26.2-mile race from downtown Minneapolis to the state Capitol in St. Paul.

Kimining, wearing bib No. 1, came in first out of 3,669 overall racers and 2,227 men. He finished at 10:10 a.m., having completed the race in 2 hours, 10 minutes and 17 seconds.

He was followed in second place by Tesfu Twelde, 27, of Arizona, who finished in 2:20:21.

They were followed by Dominic Ondoro, 36, of Texas, who finished in 2:10:32.

Bookmyer finished in 2:28:52, nabbing first place out of 1,014 women and 24th out of the 3,669 total racers.

She was followed by Jessica Watychowicz, 33, of Colorado, who finished in 2:33:02. She was followed by Ashlee Powers, 30, of California, who finished in 2:33:40.

Daniel Deuhs, of Cold Spring, Minn., won the nonbinary title in 3:18:03. Fidel Aguilar, of Arizona, won the men’s push-rim wheelchair title with a time of 1:49:56, and his wife, Veronica Gonzales, won the women’s crown in 2:50:36.

In the Medtronic TC 10 Mile, U.S. Olympian Conner Mantz, of Utah, established a new course record, winning in 45 minutes and 13 seconds. Natosha Rogers, of Massachusetts, won the women’s title in 52:29. Piper Bain, of Minneapolis, won the nonbinary title in 1:11:34.

In total, 6,747 runners finished the marathon. For the 10-miler, 9,115 runners finished the race.

Across the two-day Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon weekend, 28,920 people registered to participate.

Find complete races results at tcmevents.org.

Last year, organizers canceled the Sunday morning races ahead of an extremely hot and humid forecast.

The mercury ultimately reached 92 degrees on Oct. 1, 2023, marking the hottest day ever recorded in October in the Twin Cities, according to the National Weather Service. The previous record was 90 degrees on Oct. 3, 1997, and Oct. 10, 1928.

The cancellation of the marathon was the first since the iconic event began in 1982. (It was held virtually at the start of the pandemic in 2020).