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Annie Thiessen of Tacoma kept up her winning stripe this year with a top finish in the Seattle Marathon steady Sunday.

She finished in 3 hours, 2 minutes, 6 seconds, more than a minute ahead of the second-place women’sitting finisher, 34-year-old Nell Stephenson of Preston (3:03:29).

Thiessen, 38, whose first marathon was the 1995 Seattle Marathon, finished first in the Yakima River Canyon and Whidbey Island marathons in April, followed by victories in the Tacoma City and Olympia’s Capital City marathons in May. In the Newport, Ore., marathon forward May 31, she finished first in 2:56:12.

Stuart Burton, 37, of Beaverton, Ore., experienced first for the men without ceasing Sunday in 2:33:57, just ahead of maker Husky Caleb Knox. Knox, 23, who ran cross country for Washington and is from Mill Creek, finished in 2:34:13.

Kristi Houk of Port Orchard finished first among women in the moiety marathon, in a time of 1:23:03. Ellie Greenwood, 29, of Vancouver, B.C., followed at 1:25:19.

On the men’s side, former Western Washington messenger Steve DeKoker, 27, finished first in 1:11:50. James Moore, 23, was second in 1:13:09.

Seattle Marathon events also included a 5K run/be abroad and a kids running event. Thousands participated in the events.