More than 30,000 athletes crossed the finish line Sunday as the 49th annual San Francisco Marathon concluded along the Embarcadero.<\/p>\n
The two-day event featured a 52.4-mile ultramarathon and a traditional 26.2-mile marathon, alongside half marathon, 10K and 5K races. <\/p>\n
Participants ran past iconic city landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, the Presidio, Golden Gate Park, Haight-Ashbury and Oracle Park.<\/p>\n
The double-loop ultramarathon began at 10:15 p.m. Saturday. Runners completed an overnight 26.2-mile loop before joining the main body of full marathoners at 5:15 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n
“The energy across San Francisco this weekend was nothing short of remarkable,” race director Lauri Abrahamsen said. “Watching ultra-runners start in the dark on Saturday night and merge with thousands of full and half marathoners as the sun rose over the Bay Bridge is a testament to the grit, unity, and passion of this community. We congratulate every runner who took on the hills and crossed our finish line.”<\/p>\n
The race continued its tradition of inclusive athleticism across male, female and nonbinary+ divisions.<\/p>\n
Unofficial top finishers in the 26.2-mile full marathon included Garret Patrick of Daly City, California, who led the male division with a time of 2:26:25. Leandra Zimmerman of San Francisco won the female division in 2:45:14, and Tony Solis of Chino, California, topped the nonbinary+ division at 3:20:28.<\/p>\n
In the 52.4-mile ultramarathon, Spencer Fluetsch of Merced, California, secured first place in the male division with a time of 10:12:36. Kelly Cockell of Peoria, Arizona, took first in the female division, finishing in 11:22:27.<\/p>\n
The San Francisco Marathon was established in 1977. Full race results, division standings and age-group placings are available on the official race website, www.thesfmarathon.com.<\/p>\n
Registration is currently open for the 50th anniversary race, which is scheduled for July 24-25, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 30,000 athletes crossed the finish line Sunday as the 49th annual San Francisco Marathon concluded along…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-413062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}