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Dominic Ondoro of Kenya broke the 33-year-old course record with a time of 2 hours, 9 minutes and 6 seconds.
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In this time-lapse video, watch the marathoners pass through Knife River, Minnesota, on Scenic Highway 61, just past the 5-mile mark.
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GyuDae Kim won the men's wheelchair race, while Susannah Scaroni claimed the women's title.
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Slowed by a wet course, the wheelchair racers didn't challenge the record this year.
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Spectators and well-wishers bundled up on a cool morning by the lake in Knife River, Minnesota.
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The lead pack (pictured here just after the 5-mile mark, in Knife River) stayed together until about mile 20, when Dominic Ondoro pulled away.
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This year 7,964 runners (4,433 men and 3,531 women) entered the full marathon.
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Marathon runners came to Duluth from all 50 U.S. states, plus Washington D.C., Canada and 43 other foreign countries.
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A couple cheers on the runners in Knife River, Minnesota.
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Grandma's Marathon is the 16th largest in the United States. Of those, it's the only race not in a major metropolitan area.
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The races generate $8.5 million locally each year.
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Dominic beat the previous record time, set in 1981 by Dick Beardsley, by 31 seconds.
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Dick, the previous record holder, was covering the race as a radio commentator and congratulated Dominic at the finish line.
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The 26-year-old Kenyan hung with the lead pack for much of the race, then broke away and smashed the record.
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Pasca Myers won the women's marathon, running a personal-record time of 2 hours, 33 minutes and 45 seconds. The 27-year-old set her previous PR last year at Grandma's Marathon.
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Women's marathon champ Pasca Myers was greeted at the finish line by Grandma herself.
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Defending marathon champion Sarah Kiptoo – who last year set a new course record – finished third.
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Pasca Myers at the finish line after winning the marathon.
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Sixty-four-year-old Tim Freeman finished first in his age group with a time of 2 hours, 45 minutes and 57 seconds. He was one of 349 marathon runners age 60 or older.
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A pair of marathon runners congratulate each other after finishing in less than 3 hours.
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This group finished the marathon just before the 3-hour mark.
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These exhausted runners sprinted to the finish line and beat the vaunted 3-hour mark by a few minutes.
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Barefoot runner Jon Eichert from Tennessee finished 22nd in the men's 40-44 age group with a time of 2 hours, 59 minutes and 33 seconds.
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Finishers lined up for their medals. Nearly 6,000 volunteers, like this gentleman in white, help the event run so smoothly every year.
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An emotional moment after the race.
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Runners head into the final turns.
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Spectators lined the overpass to cheer on the runners as they entered Canal Park and the final stretch.
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Runners on Superior Street in downtown Duluth, about 1.5 miles from the finish.
On a foggy, misty North Shore morning – excellent running weather – Dominic Ondoro smashed the 33-year-old Grandma's Marathon course record by 31 seconds, besting the top men's time set by Dick Beardsley in 1981.
This year's Grandma's Marathon races in Duluth and on Minnesota's North Shore drew more than 18,000 participants to town. But none of the marathon's 7,964 runners could keep up with Dominic, who pulled ahead at mile 20 and beat runner-up Betram Keter by nearly 3 minutes. He finished with an unofficial record time of 2 hours, 9 minutes and 6 seconds.
Pasca Myers won the women's race in a personal-record time of 2 hours, 33 minutes and 45 seconds. The 27-year-old set her previous PR last year at Grandma's Marathon.
In the wheelchair races, GyuDae Kim won the men's marathon; Susannah Scaroni claimed the women's.
The Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon titles went to Julius Koskei and Cynthia Limo.
On Friday, Duluthian Scott Behling won the William A. Irvin 5K men's race. Minnesotan and former Olympian Carrie Tollefson, holding hands across the finish line with friend Angie Voight, won the women's race by four hundredths of a second.
For complete results and times, go to www.grandmasmarathon.com.