US olympian and 10.000m specialist Kara Goucher to debut at marathon in New York

September 11, 2008

US-Girl Kara Goucher, who took 9th place in the 5.000m (15:49.39) and 10th place at the 10.000m (30:55.16/PB) in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will give her marathon debut in the 2008 ING New York City Marathon. Goucher’s biggest success so far was the bronze medal in the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. Now the 30-year old will turn to the marathon and on November 2nd 2008 she will race her first 42,195km in the city where she was born. Goucher is in good company as already several other marathon stars made their debut in New York, for example Grete Waitz (1978), Goucher’s coach Alberto Salazar (1980), Liz McColgan (1991), Deena Kastor (2001), Marla Runyan (2002), Meb Keflezighi (2002), and Dathan Ritzenhein (2006).