Top Marin Bay to Breakers Finishers

Tens of thousands of runners crossed the finish line this morning for a centennial 7-mile footrace through San Francisco. Roughly 55,000 2011 Zazzle Bay to Breakers runners hit the city streets at 7 a.m. by San Francisco Bay and finished at Ocean Beach on the western end of Golden Gate Park, race officials said.

(According to results, 23,855 of those runners were officially entered.)

Commemorating "100 Years Running," runners came from all over the world to participate. First place finisher Ridouane Harroufi, 29, from Morocco, ran the 7.46-mile race in 34:26, race officials said.

The first Bay Area runner to finish was Bolota Asmerom, 32, of San Francisco, who ran the course in 36:40 and placed eighth overall, officials said.

The top male Marin finisher was Dan Shore, from Mill Valley, who ran the course in 45:36, and was the 134th man and 14th in the 40- to 49-year-old division.

Alexander Sebastian, of Fairfax, was the top male finisher from the Ross Valley, finishing in 47:22 and 29th in the men's 40- to 49-year-old division.

Kenyan runner Lineth Chepkuri, 23, won the women's race for the third year in a row, according to race officials and final results. Olympic marathoner Magdalena Lewy-Boulet, 37, of Oakland, who is married to former Drake standout Richie Boulet, was the first Bay Area woman to finish, placing sixth among the women in 41:26.

The top female Marin runner and the top Marin runner overall was also from Mill Valley. Yiou Wang covered the course in 42:33 and was the ninth woman across the line. Valerie Young, of Novato, was 15th in 45:51.

The top female finisher from the Ross Valley was Silver Lumsdaine, of San Anselmo, who took 7th in the women's 50- to 59-year-old division and was the 145th woman to finish in 56:26.

Other runners came from around the country to participate in the 100th annual race-celebration. Tucson residents Janis Leibold, 53, and her sister Diane Leibold, 54, were clad in pink flamingo hats.

"Running (Bay to Breakers) has been on my bucket list since I was 26 and now I'm 53," first-time participant Janis said.

Arriving from Fairfield, first-time Bay to Breaker participants Aren and Derek Pace, both 25, decided to run the course in the buff, creatively covering a few body parts.

"I felt freer than I've ever felt," Aren said about running wearing more face paint than clothing. Both said they were asked to be in many pictures along the run.

A group of "shower curtain mummy" women, wearing pink ponchos in anticipation of rain showers that were narrowly avoided, had run the Bay to Breakers together for four years.

With a new race sponsor and changes to race regulations, group member Lisa Vail, 50, of San Francisco, said this year was much tamer -- though she still caught views of a few naked runners.

Despite hundreds of police lining the race course and promises of any unregistered or unruly participants being removed from the course, a certain amount of mayhem still filled the classic San Francisco event.

A man fell off a roof while celebrating today's race, a police sergeant said.

The 30-year-old man fell 30 feet from the roof of a house in the 1500 block of Fell Street. The house party where he had fallen was shut down after he was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, San Francisco police Sgt. Michael Andraychak said.

As of 3 p.m., there were 17 public intoxication arrests, three assault arrests, two arrests for burglary and three auto-burglary arrests, according to police.

Dressed as Splinter, a Japanese mutant rat from the television series, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," Daniel High, 25, from Menlo Park, said this year's Bay to Breakers race was more mellow.

"They cracked down this year," he said.

San Francisco resident Joel Fossourier said the biggest difference from his previous five races was no floats. With floats officially banned this year, he said traffic was smoother and the party vibe was quelled, as participants had nowhere to hold large quantities of alcohol. 

Bay City News contributed to this report.