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Joy-Petrina first woman to win Bellmore race
Photo credit: Photo by Kitty Dadi / Greater Long Island Running | Leonora Joy-Petrina, of Sayville, is the first woman to win the Bellmore Independence Day Four Mile Run. (July 4, 2010)
Last Sunday at the Bellmore Striders Independence Day Four-Mile Run - considered one of the most competitive races on Long Island - Leonora Joy-Petrina showed a pool of 559 other finishers that a woman not only can compete with a man, but she can beat him.
With a time of 21 minutes, 51 seconds, Joy-Petrina, 27, of Sayville, became the first woman to win the race and only the fourth woman...
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