D4 HORSE SHOW


Child rider prizes are given on final day


Colvin wins on pony, Goodson-Cutt is best on a horse


BY T. REES SHAPIRO On the final day of the 52nd


Washington International Horse Show at Verizon Center, Victoria Colvin was named the horse show’s best child rider on a pony ridingForTheLaughter andHan- nah Goodson-Cutt was the best child rider on a horse ridingCare- tano. Colvin hadwon consistently all


week aboard For The Laughter, a large pony, including two $2,000 large pony hunter classes. Good- son-Cutt won two small junior hunter classes riding Caretano. The best child rider honors are


given to the competitors who ac- cumulate the most points throughout the week in hunter classes. Olivia Esse was named the


Grand Champion Junior Hunter aboard Illusion. Madeline Thatcher, riding Francesca, was the horse show’s Grand Champi- onHunter.Colvinwas alsonamed the Grand Champion Pony Hunt- er on Ever Luvin. Megan McGovern and Valente


won the regional hunter horse finals and Sarah Anderson won the regionalhunterpony finals on Wild Card Cody.


Ward, Sapphire take prize McLain Ward and Sapphire


combined to win the $100,000 President’s Cup grand prix late Saturday night. Sapphire, a 15-year-old Dutch


warmblood, is considered one of the top jumper horses in the world.WardhaswontwoOlympic gold medals riding Sapphire and in September rode her towin a $1 million grand prix inNewYork. “I owe my career to her,”Ward


said in September after thewin in NewYork. Earlier in theweek,Ward came


in eighth riding Sapphire in a $30,000 open jumper class.Ward and the dark bay mare last won the President’s Cup in 2008. In second place this year was


Aaron Vale riding Paparazzi 10. Vale has won the President’s Cup twiceandwasbeatenbyWardbya margin of less than seven-tenths of a second. In thirdwasVenezue- lan rider Pablo Barrios on G&C Quick Star 11 Z, who on Friday won the $25,000 puissance class. Brazilian Olympic rider Rodri-


goPessoa,whoplacedfifthaboard HHAshley in the President’s Cup, was given the leading jumper rid- er award and leading internation- al open jumper rider, after win- ning two classes on Palouchin De Ligny, a chestnut gelding sired by Pessoa’sOlympic goldmedal-win- ning mount, Baloubet du Rouet, and born to his mare, Chin Chin, whomhe showed as a junior. shapirot@washpost.com


DanLasko,27,aMarineveteran


whowaswounded inAfghanistan in 2004, won the fifth Marine Corps Marathon 10K on Sunday. The race started simultaneously withthemarathonbutontheMall and ended at themarathon finish line inArlington.Amember of the Wounded Warrior program, Lasko finished ahead of 10,000 registeredrunners. Alemtsehey Misganaw, 30,


BILL O'LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST Arecord 21,856 runners completed the 35thMarine CorpsMarathon, an event Air Force officer Jacob Bradosky won. Bradosky’s late push secures win


23-year-old outlasts Kurui with burst in marathon’s final miles


BY JIM HAGE With a strong push just past


the 20-milemark, Air Force 2nd Lt. Jacob Bradosky dropped de- fending champion Navy Lt. Cmdr. John Mentzer, a Marine 1stLt.andaKenyancivilianwho aspires to join the U.S. military to win the 35th Marine Corps Marathon in 2 hours 23minutes 30 seconds. “I was told to run the first 20


miles withmy head and the last six with my heart,” Bradosky said, “and that worked very well.” Bradosky, 23, is aWrightState


graduate stationed at Vanden- berg Air Force Base near Santa Barbara, Calif. His time, in his fifth marathon, was a personal best by 20 seconds. The 26.2-mile race, with a re-


cord 21,856 finishers, started at theMarineCorpsWarMemorial in Arlington and passed thema- jormonumentsdowntownamid heightened security because an unknown gunman has fired


shots at U.S. military sites four times, includingtwiceat theMa- rine Corps Museum, in recent weeks. Sunday’s race proceeded without incident. “Everybody involved in keep-


ing the race safe upped their game today,” race director Rick Nealis said at the finish line as helicopters hovered overhead. “We held the race shortly after 9/11 [in 2001], so this is not unfamiliar territory for us.” The race, which goes through seven jurisdictions, wasmarked by an expanded security presence. Ronald Kurui, a native of Ke-


nya, stayedclosetoBradoskybut finished in second place 11 sec- onds back.Kurui fell hard to the pavement in the early miles when another runner clipped his heel, and Karui scraped his knee and elbow, which required medical attention after the race. “My knee was tight and I


couldnot sprint at the finish,”he said.Askedifhemighthavewon had he not fallen, Karui shook his head slowly and saidmaybe. Karui visited veterans at the


Walter Reed ArmyMedical Cen- ter last week and promised to donate his award, a silver laurel wreath he hopedwould be gold, to the hospital’s trophy case. Af- ter spending two years in the


United States, Kurui wants to gain citizenship and join the military as a translator. MarineCorps 1stLt.SeanBar-


rett, running his firstmarathon, took third in 2:24:08. Barrett, who began training for the race while stationed in Iraq, will be deployedtoAfghanistaninearly January; he ran with “USMC” across his chest. “Wearing the Marine Corps


singlet at this race is a great honor,” said Barrett, a 2007Har- vardgraduate. “It’snot lostonus that there are a lot of Marines deployed right now. Here, the crowd gives you great support, but that alsomeans you can’t let themdown.” From the start, Mentzer


shared the lead with fellow offi- cers Bradosky and Barrett, who were rejoined by the shakenKu- rui at 13miles.By 15, the quartet had caught two early leaders andseizedcontrolof therace.All four had entered the race with winning as their stated goal. “We were talking at eight


[miles],” Bradosky said, “and knew we were all brothers in arms. We were well back of the leaders [90 seconds at 10miles] but just said to remain patient. I thinkwe all ran a smart race.” “Mentzer was our sounding


board,”Barrett said. “Hewas the senior man on deck. We were just following his lead.” And Mentzer appeared to be dictat- ing the pace as the lead pack headed across the 14th Street Bridge and into the race’s defin- ing stage. “Itwas put up or shut up time


at 20 miles,” said Mentzer, who was trying to become the first back-to-back winner since Ru- ben Garcia-Gomez in 2005-06. “Sean, Jake and I had worked well together for a long while, but Jake made a strong move and I couldn’t answer.” Mentzer struggled to the fin-


ish fourth in 2:27:01. Mark Croasdale, 45, is the


1999 champion and a British Royal Marine. He finished in 2:46:44 and finished 54th. “It gets harder every year,” Croas- dale said. “Maybe I’m pushing my luck.” Another former winner, Gar-


cia-Gomez, 39, wearing bib No. 1, ran in the top 20 for 15 miles but did not finish. And 1990 winner, Matthew Waight, from Pipersville, Pa., 47, finished 200th in 3:02:28. David Swope, 44, from New


Windsor,Maine,won thewheel- chair division in 2:07:25. sports@washpost.com


Cherobon is fifth-fastest finisher ever


Slaby is second, Desalgn third among women


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choose. She got both during the Halloweeneditionof theMarine CorpsMarathon on Sunday. The 32-year-oldregisterednursewas the topfemale,winning the 35th annual race by awidemargin. Cherobon treated herself and


an announced crowd of 100,000 to one of the fastest finishes in recent history, covering the 26.2-mile course in a chip-timed 2 hours 42minutes 38 seconds. The trick came when race


officials failed to stretch a tape across the finish line. Cherobon saidshewas expectingtoseeone as shenearedthe endof the race. She was greeted by wild ap- plause and the public address announcer welcoming her in, but no ribbon, a tradition at most major marathons, includ- ing this one. The problemwas that Chero-


bon was too fast. Officials were tracking every runner’sprogress by the chips they wore on their bodies, but incorrectly predict- ed Cherobon’s time of arrival. No female had broken 2:47


since 2003.Cherobon’s timewas fifth fastest among women in race history. Only 32 males fin- ished in front of her. Gina Slaby, a 29-year oldNavy


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lieutenant from Tucson, took second place in 2:46:57. She moved from fourth place into third just beyond the halfway pointnear theWashingtonmon- ument and captured second aroundMile 16 near the Lincoln Memorial. It was Slaby’s third Marine


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Corps Marathon and she fin- ished with a personal-best time, a far cry from her 2008 experi- ence in which she faded during


from Ellicott City, won the wom- en’s race. . . . Themenandwomenof theU.S.


MarineCorps swept the challenge cup competition, which annually pits members of the Marines against the British Royal Navy/ RoyalMarines. First Lt. Sean Bar- rett, 25, led theway for themenby finishing third overall in his first- ever marathon in 2:24:08. Mau- reenCarr,a29-year-oldfromAlex- andria,wasthetopfemalefinisher in3:05:41.


Maskedman Jeremy Soles, a formerU.S.Ma-


rine, set a Guinness world record by becoming the fastest person to finishamarathonwhilewearing a gasmask. Soles, 33, completedthe 26.2-mile course in a chip-timed 4:29:01. He ran out of water halfway


through the race, but was given liquids and gels through a tube. Themask restricts a person’s nor- mal rate of breathing by 25 to 30 percent, Soles said. After crossing the line, the tat-


tooed Soles removed the black mask that stretched fromhis eyes tohischinandhuggedandsaluted Cpl. John Michael Peck, who was seated in a wheelchair nearby. Peck, 25, lost his arms and legs in AfghanistaninMay. “We run in honor of the men


and women who have paid the ultimate price, but today we run for Corporal Peck,” Soles said. “It was my honor to come out here andrepresent”him.


Valiant effort RustyMurphy, 49, fromGrape-


vine, Tex., was walking as quickly ashe couldalongConstitutionAv- enue 17miles andmore than four hours into the race in an effort to clear the 14th Street Bridge and the 20-milemark before race offi- cials closed the course. “I’m hurt- ing,”Murphy said. “My stomach is hurting, my feet are aching. I probably didn’t train enough and I’mprobably not going tomake it. But if they let me, I’ll try to keep goingpast the bridge.” . . . As part of the tie-in with the


2,500th anniversary of the Battle of Marathon and the legend of Pheidippides’ famous run,Dimitri Kyriakides, the sonof 1946Boston Marathon winner Stylianos Kyri- akides, helped officiate the race. Kyriakidesusedhis victory tohelp focus attention on Greece as it recovered from Nazi occupation andthe ravages ofWorldWar II. The marathon is recognized


around the world as a symbol of equality, brotherhood and fair competition, Kyriakides said. It represents the best of what hu- mans aspire to.


Thewiener takes it all Chris Farmer was hotdogging


BILL O'LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST BlakeHigh School band members perform asMarine CorpsMarathon runners pass theU.S. Capitol.


the final threemiles and needed an intravenous drip to recover. “This is the best marathon,”


said Slaby, who led the Navy women over Army in the Armed Forces challenge. “Getting to runthroughtheMall andsee the Capitol is so awesome.” Tezata Desalgn was third in


2:50:37 after a nine-year ab- sence from marathoning. The 30-year-old Burtonsville resi- dent last ran a marathon in 2001, before giving birth to her two daughters. Shewasn’t going to run this year, but filled in when teammateMuliye Gurmu, last year’s champion, decided to withdraw a few weeks ago be- cause of a lower-leg injury. Desalgn has grown more ac-


customed to running shorter races—she competedforTurkey


in the 5K at the 2004 Olympics inAthens—and her speedwas a major asset on Sunday. But the day belonged to Cher-


obon. Paced by teammate Mi- chaelWardian of Arlington, she separated from the rest of the women in the race fairly early, increasing her advantage with every stride. Shewincedwhen it was over, doused herself with water andgingerly sat inametal folding chair. Cherobonsaid that shewas in


so much pain that, had it not been forWardian and the “great crowd,” she would have consid- ered quitting the race. “It was more than I expected,” she said. It was a stunning admission


considering that Cherobon has been battle-tested. She was a three-time distance national


champion while competing for Division II Harding University in Arkansas, has won her last five marathons and has a per- sonal-best half-marathon time of 1:10:59. Perhaps the same grit that led


Cherobon to finish the process of becoming a U.S. citizen— the Kenya nativewill be sworn in on Nov. 10 — led her to finish the race. Cherobon had hardly any time to study, so she said she listened to the review sessions onhermp3 playerwhile shewas out on long runs. She is already planning an-


other assault on the Marine CorpsMarathon record. “Next year,” said Cherobon, “I


think I’ll come and really try.” littlec@washpost.com


the 35thannual race.The 33-year- oldColumbiamanwalked toward the starting area as a 6-foot-1 frankfurter, complete with a squiggly line of mustard. When askedwhyhedecidedonthatHal- loween costume, he said it was because “I couldn’t find one with ketchup.” Farmer said he has run a hand-


ful of 5Ks, sometimes in costume, but has never run a marathon in Halloween attire. He finished in 4:47:22.


Road construction Road improvements to Consti-


tution Avenue that started last week caught race officials by sur- priseWednesdayandnecessitated a one-mile long course adjust- mentupanddowncurbs andonto the gravel pedestrian portion of theMall. . . . Groundpounders and 2010Ma-


rineCorpsMarathonHall ofFame inducteesMelWilliams in4:01:33, Will Brown in 5:26:07, Matt Jaffe in 6:19:55 and Al Richmond in 5:23:59, added a 35th year to their streak of having completed every marathon.


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Marine veteran triumphs in


10K race Elliott City’s Misganaw


wins women’s race BY JIMHAGE


AND CARL LITTLE


MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2010


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