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The top two in the men’s race and the first two in the women’s competition all turned the eighth annual Bellingham Bay Marathon into a family affair to remember.

Repeat champion Steve DeKoker, a 33-year-old Western Washington University graduate who lives in Seattle, and runner-up Mark Burke, 27, from Bellingham, said they received cheers they’ll never forget from their wives and young daughters.