USC distance runner Zsofia Erdelyi won the Las Vegas Marathon last Sunday in her first attempt at the 26 mile distance with a time of 2:48:58.Erdelyi could barely walk post-race after pushing her body to excruciating limits, but she survived a pre-race bloody nose and a severe pain in her side, which kicked in with eight miles to go.
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Erdelyi missed the automatic qualifying time to run the marathon for Hungary in the 2012 Olympic Games, but she topped the women's division by 38 seconds.
Earlier in the fall, Erdelyi enter her first half marathon in Long Beach and won that race as well.
She will compete in track and field for USC this spring with the hopes of taking another qualification shot for the Olympic marathon in London.
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