Kenyan Andrew Musuva won both of the Minnesota Marathon's titles in 1999, and Ethiopia's Buzunesh Deba did it in 2011.
The bonus money is in addition to the $15,000 the winner of the men's and woman's race's receive out of the total $113,000 prize money purse. Another potential bonus is the $25,000 given to the man or woman who can break the course record for their gender. The men's record of 2:10:05 was set in 1985 by Iowa's Phil Coppess, while two women share the record having run the same time in different years--2:26:51 by Russians Zinaida Semenove in 2001 and Irina Permitina in 2004.
This year's race is on October 7.
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