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Emily Sisson broke Sara Hall‘s national half-marathon record with a one-hour, seven-minute, and 11-second performance in Indianapolis, Indiana.
That is a four-second improvement over Hall’s run in January at the Houston half-marathon.
Emily Sisson and Leonard Korir are CHAMPS! 🥇
— USATF (@usatf) May 8, 2022
Sisson ran an *American record of 1:07:11 and Korir battled through the finish to win a tight race in 1:02:35 at the USATF Half Marathon Championships!
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Sisson led early, running a first 5K split of 15:54, which was on pace for the record. At 10K she alone in 31;57.
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By 15K — with another sub-16 split — she was more than four minutes up on her nearest competitor.
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Andrea Pomaranski, Allie Kieffer, and Tayler Tuttle competed for second and third place for most of the race. Pomaranski ended up taking second in the time of 73:12, while Keiffer rolled in four seconds back for third.
The 39-year-old Pomaranski owns a best of 1:13:15 from 2010. Keiffer, in Doha in 2018, ran 1:10:40. In Rome earlier this year she ran an illegal (not valid course) 69:17.
Sisson’s record is pending ratification.
Full results may be found here>>