The last Americans to win the open division race were Greg Meyer in 1983 and Lisa Larsen-Weidenbach in 1985.
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"Snakeheads are extremely lazy and sedentary, " says Hawaii biologist Ron Weidenbach.
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Lisa Larsen-Weidenbach won the women's race two years later, and since then it's been a quarter-century of East Africans claiming the olive wreath in Copley Square.
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