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Luke guides Izzi to marathon glory

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By Aiden Box

OVER 35,000 runners took part in the 2022 Melbourne Marathon Festival on October 2, including 2020 Tokyo Olympian Izzi Batt-Doyle, who clocked the fastest debut marathon time ever by an Australian woman (2:28:10), coming second overall in the women’s race. 

Batt-Doyle competed in Tokyo in the five-kilometre event and travelled from Adelaide to pull off the amazing feat in her...


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