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Area residents compete in U.S. Olympic marathon trials

Beavercreek sisters 41st, 42nd; Bellbrook brothers 47th, 60th.

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Staff and Wire Reports 10:46 PM Saturday, January 14, 2012

HOUSTON — Twins Kara and Tara Storage of Beavercreek were the highest local finishers in the U.S. Olympic men’s and women’s marathon trials Saturday.

Kara came in 41st at 2 hours, 39 minutes, 55 seconds, and Tara was 42nd in 2:40.00 in the women’s division, which had 152 participants. The Storage sisters, 30, are graduates of Beavercreek High School and the University of Dayton.

Bellbrook’s Ann Alyanak had to drop out 10 miles into the 26.2 mile race due to a foot injury. The former University of Dayton women’s cross country coach was seventh in the 2008 Olympic marathon trials.

Shalane Flanagan won the women’s competition in an event-record time of 2:25.38. Running in only her second career marathon, the 30-year-old Flanagan shaved more than three minutes off her previous personal best, set in her runner-up finish in New York in 2010.

Josh Ordway, 31, was the top area men’s finisher coming in 47th out of 85 runners in 2:19.22. A student at the Wright State medical school, Ordway ran in college for Princeton University. His brother, Jason, 24, came in 60th at 2:21.02. He went to college at Southern Illinois.

The Ordways live in Bellbrook and graduated from Holgate High School in northwestern Ohio.

Meb Keflezighi won Saturday’s race in a personal-best time of 2:09.08 to qualify for his third games. At 36, Keflezighi is the oldest winner of the trial and the first man to win the event and the New York marathon (2009) in his career.

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