ATLANTA — The U.S. Olympic Women’s Marathon Trials produced a stunning team for Tokyo, one with three striking personal stories.
Aliphine Tuliamuk, who won in 2:27:23 and by the smallest women’s margin in trials history (eight seconds), was seeded 10th. Tuliamuk, a native of Kenya with 31 siblings, drove an Uber and took up crocheting while recovering from a femoral stress fracture last year.
“I actually still don’t believe that it happened,” Tuliamuk, who became a U.S. citizen in 2016 and won by the smallest women’s trials margin ever, told Lewis Johnson on NBC.