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Valentyna Veretska fled Ukraine and won a marathon a month later

On Feb. 25, one day after Russia's war on Ukraine began, Valentyna Veretska crossed the border from Ukraine to Poland with her 11-year-old daughter, leaving behind her husband who returned to their city of Mykolaiv to help defend their country from attack.

Last Friday, exactly one month later, Veretska, 31, won one of Israel's biggest running events, the Jerusalem Marathon, after receiving a last-minute invitation