The 33rd annual Honolulu Marathon drew 26,643 runners Sunday and Jimmy Muindi won it for the fifth time.
Muindi's time was 2 hours and 12 minutes, only 49 seconds short of his course record last year. Fellow Kenyan Mbarak Hussein was second, 3 minutes and 6 seconds later. A first-time Russian entrant, 29-year-old Olesya Nurgalieva was the fastest woman at 2:30:24. Her twin sister finished fourth.
On Thursday, the last day for which Mainland arrival figures were available over the weekend, 22,629 arrivals by air were logged, almost 4,000 more than on Wednesday and up 12.4 percent from the same day last year.
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