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World and Olympic marathon champion Rosa Mota...

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World and Olympic marathon champion Rosa Mota of Portugal broke away from Norway’s Grete Waitz to win the 10-kilometer Great London Run.

Waitz, a nine-time winner of the New York Marathon, ran shoulder-to-shoulder with Mota for the first 4 kilometers. But the race favorite broke away to win by 250 yards in 32 minutes 49 seconds.

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