As Australia’s Village Roadshow Theme Parks Gold Coast Marathon returned for the primary time since 2019, Lindsay Flanagan turned its first American winner feminine or male, taking 6 seconds off the course document and over 2 minutes off her PB to take 1st in 2:24:43. Accompanied by devoted male pacers and a big group of males in a race that by no means noticed a lead ladies’s group congeal, Flanagan went by way of midway in 1:11:59 after which sped up even additional, clocking her two quickest 5 km splits of the race, 16:52 and 16:47, from 20 to 25 km and 25 to 30 km. The results of that got here down on her after 30 km as she slowed past 3:30/km, however with a rally during the last km she held on to crack Ruth Chebitok ‘s 2018 CR of two:24:49. Publish-race Flanagan and her coach, Australian NR and Oceania AR holder Benita Johnson , have been elated, having simply met one another in particular person a number of days earlier than the race after a yr of on-line teaching. Like Flanagan, 2nd-placer and native favourite Lisa Weightman , the
