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New West runners show well in Sun Run

Former New Westminster Secondary student Kim McMullen was the top female finisher at the annual Vancouver Sun Run last Sunday. McMullen placed 46th among the elite women with a 39.57 clocking.

Former New Westminster Secondary student Kim McMullen was the top female finisher at the annual Vancouver Sun Run last Sunday.

McMullen placed 46th among the elite women with a 39.57 clocking.

Tamara Harris of New Westminster rounded out the top 100, finishing 82nd in the women's division.

Port Moody's Natasha Fraser was the fastest women in 34: 13.

Dylan Gant was the fastest finisher from Burnaby in the run.

The Burnaby Central and Simon Fraser University grad finished 18th overall in a time of 32: 24 in the 10kilometre run.

Oliver Utting of Burnaby finished right behind Gant in 19th place.

A third city runner, Colin Wallace, finished just 14 seconds behind in 24th place among the elite male finishers. Lee Koffler of Burnaby was 44th overall in a time of 33.42.

Riaan Naude, Burnaby South grad Travis Fraser, Brendan Brazier and Yubai Liu also finished among the top 100 men.

University of Regina student Kelly Wiebe won the 10km race in a time of 29: 13.

Local runners also had a presence in many age groupings.

Aimee Boyer of New Westminster won the over75 women's group in a subone-hour time of 58: 48.

Tatjana Bandic was eighth among over-65 women, while Garry Arrell ws seventh in the men's division.

Phil Green was eighth in the men's over-50 division as was Paul Daminato in the over-60 group. Mike Elsinga was ninth in the over-45 category.

In the over-85 age group, Mitsuyoshi Matsushita and Norm May placed fifth and eighth, respectively.

Richard Wang of Burnaby was 10th in the schoolboy division, while Stefan Milosevic placed seventh in the 16 to 18 category.

George Sojka finished seventh in the over-60 grouping, while Jake Matterdom was fourth among over-65 men.

Wolfgang Hauser and Luciano Toffolon also finished in the top 10 among male runners over 75.

In the women's division, Natasha Louie was ninth in the schoolgirl race.

Sue Dickson placed third and Stephanie Lord was 10th in the women's 55 to 59 category.

Giselle Albright came fourth among over-70 women, while Violet Holmes was third in the over-75 division.