page_title: Shalane Flanagan
section_title: 2009
hierarchical_section_title: Shalane Flanagan / Track and field career / Professional career / 2009
caption_attribution_description: Local favorite Shalane Flanagan loses the women's 5,000 by five-thousandths of a second to Ethiopian en:Sentayehu Ejigu but sets a new American Record with her 14:47.618 at the 2009 Boston Indoor Games.
context_page_description: Shalane Grace Flanagan is a former American long-distance runner, Olympic medalist and New York City Marathon champion. She was the first American woman to win the New York City Marathon since 1977. She holds the NACAC area record in the 5000 meters and the 10k road race.
  She won the silver medal at the 2008 Olympics in the 10,000 m and the bronze medal at the 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. She won the Women's 2017 New York City Marathon, the first American woman to do so since Miki Gorman in 1977.
context_section_description: In 2009, Flanagan split with coach John Cook and moved to Portland, Oregon, to begin working with new coach Jerry Schumacher. She finished second to Amy Yoder Begley in the 10,000 m at the 2009 USA Track & Field Championships. At the World Championships in Berlin, Flanagan finished in 14th place in the 10,000 m with a time of 31:32.19.
caption: Flanagan (right) competing in the 2009 Boston Games
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