She finished 10th with a personal-worst marathon time of 3:27:54.

Her peak year was at age 73, when she ran her best marathon time of 4:34.08.

Her 36 hour, 9 minute run in 2000 set a world record for the longest marathon time in the history of women's running.

She is also an accomplished amateur athlete, with a marathon personal best time of 2:54:39.

He began hitting the streets in the late 1960's and became good at it, posting marathon times well under three hours.

He had run 2:08:58 - then the 16th fastest marathon time in history.

Kristiansen already has run four of the nine women's marathon times below 2:25.

Her marathon time of 3:01:53 was beaten by only two men.

Her marathon time of 2:44:35 was also a new world record.

Her marathon times were among the top ten in 1984 and 1987-1994.