Malgorzata Sobanska
Home: Poznan, Poland
Age: 34
Personal best: 2:26:08 (Chicago, 2001)

Along with her Boston finish in 2001, where she led the pack for 14 miles before conceding to Catherine Ndereba, Sobanska counts her 4th-place finish in the 1995 World Championships marathon and her victory at the 1995 London Marathon as the high points of a prolific marathon career that began in 1991. In the 2000 Olympics, she placed 11th, and has finished in the top four of the Berlin Marathon three times, the top eight at the Tokyo Women's Marathon four times, and the top nine at the London Marathon three times. She has two daughters, Victoria and Kornelia.