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Here Are The 2019 Boston Marathon Runners From Highland Park

Three Highland Park women completed the Boston Marathon Monday.

The 2019 Boston Marathon was underway Monday.
The 2019 Boston Marathon was underway Monday. (Tim Bradbury/Getty Images)

HIGHLAND PARK, IL — The 2019 Boston Marathon took place Monday, with three Highland Park women completing the course this year. The men's wheelchair race crossed the start line Monday followed by women and elite women shortly afterwards.

Here were the participating runners from Highland Park, click on their bib numbers for splits and more updated unofficial results.

Julie Pfeffer, 50 — No. 18552
Time: 4:02:03, 496th in age division

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Theresa Peterson, 44 — No. 11582
Time: 3:58:17, 1,153rd in age division

Colleen Montgomery, 44 — No. 20129
Time: 4:21:00, 1,440th in age division

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More than 30,000 runners were expected to participate in the 123rd edition of the race. Not all registered runners shown above took part in the race. One Highland Park man was also registered but did not take part in the race.

The route weaves from Hopkinton to Boston. The course begins on Main Street in the rural New England town and continues through Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley, Newton and Brookline before concluding in Boston, according to the marathon’s website.

In 2018, Des Linden became the first American to win the marathon in more than three decades. Her winning time was 2 hours 39 minutes and 54 seconds, the slowest in 40 years.

This year, the men's race was the closest since 1988, while the winner of the women's race led the pack by at least a half-mile throughout most of the race. Thunderstorms had threatened the Boston area, but the rain mostly stopped, for now. It was 61 degrees, with calm wins and overcast skies.

Linden was among the runners this year, along with Yuki Kawauchi, the men's defending champion. This year's event falls on the sixth anniversary of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three people were killed and maimed hundreds more. A moment of silence was planned at 2:49 p.m., the time of the first explosion.

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Patch staff Dan Hampton and Jenna Fisher contributed.

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