BARCELONA, Spain - Zivile Balciunaite of Lithuania won the women's marathon at the European Championships on Saturday, and 50-year-old Merlene Ottey became the oldest athlete to compete at the event when she ran in the 400 relay. Balciunaite went around the streets of Barcelona in 2 hours, 31 minutes, 14 seconds to earn her first major triumph. Nailya Yulamanova of Russia won silver in 2:32:15, and Anna Incerti of Italy took bronze in 2:32:48. Ottey, a naturalized Slovenian of Jamaican origin,...
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