Russian woman wins LA Marathon

LOS ANGELES, March 3 (UPI) -- A Russian woman running her first competitive marathon won the Los Angeles Marathon's $100,000 prize by outracing more than 25,000 competitors of both sexes.

Tatiana Aryasova finished the 26.2-mile course in 2 hours, 29 minutes and 9 seconds Sunday, earning her the grand prize money, as well as a victory in the women's race, the Los Angeles Daily News reported Monday.

Laban Moiben of Kenya ran to victory in the men's race with a finishing time of 2 hours, 13 minutes and 50 seconds. The women in the marathon are given a 19-minute, 38-second head start in the race.

Aryasova was the third female runner to earn the $100,000 grand prize in the race's five-year history.

"You can't keep those women down," William Burke, the marathon's president and co-founder, told NBC after the race. "You can't get them back in the kitchen."