Washington's Birthday Marathon

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Washington's Birthday Marathon
DateSecond Sunday of February
Location Greenbelt, Maryland
Event typeRoad
Distance Marathon
Established1962
Course recordsMen: 2:22:14 (1978)
Robert Doyle
Women: 2:53:29 (1988)
Rose Malloy
Official site www.gwmarathon.com

Washington's Birthday Marathon is an annual marathon in the United States that has been held nearly every February since 1962.

Contents

It is held each year on the Sunday of Washington's Birthday Weekend and is conducted by the DC Road Runners Club.

The race was originally held in Arlington, Virginia, but after a few years, it was moved to Beltsville, Maryland. Finally, it was relocated to Greenbelt, Maryland. The Greenbelt course started and finished at the recreation center of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and consisted of three loops around the Beltsville Agricultural Research Farm. When NASA permanently closed access between the rec center and Good Hope Road, the race start was moved to Duvall High School, and finally to the Greenbelt Youth Center. The race continues to consist of three loops on the farm. [1]

A three-person relay is also held at the same time.

After the 2023 race, the DC Road Runners Club determined the course was not suitable, and the 2024 race was not held. [2]

Past winners

Key:  Course record

EditionYearMen's winnerTime (h:m:s)Women's winnerTime (h:m:s)
1st1962Flag of the United States.svg  Richard Haines  (USA)2:32:44
2nd1963Flag of the United States.svg  Lou Castagnola  (USA)2:35:18
3rd1964Flag of the United States.svg  Richard Haines  (USA)2:32:40
4th1965Flag of the United States.svg  Robert Scharf  (USA)2:33:45
5th1966Flag of the United States.svg  Robert Scharf  (USA)2:25:01
6th1967Flag of the United States.svg  Lou Castagnola  (USA)2:22:45
7th1968Flag of the United States.svg  Lou Castagnola  (USA)2:33:11
8th1969Flag of the United States.svg  Thomas Ratliffe  (USA)2:27:48
9th1970Flag of the United States.svg  John Loeschhorn  (USA)2:27:27
10th1971Flag of the United States.svg  Jack Fultz  (USA)2:28:58Flag of the United States.svg  Anna Mae Diehl  (USA)3:43:01
11th1972Flag of the United States.svg  Marshall Adams  (USA)2:30:52
12th1973Flag of the United States.svg  Marshall Adams  (USA)2:24:17Flag of the United States.svg  Teri Johnson  (USA)3:57:40
13th1974Flag of the United States.svg  Sheldon Karlin  (USA)2:26:59Flag of the United States.svg  Katherine Switzer  (USA)3:14:40
14th1975Flag of the United States.svg  Eddie Hereford  (USA)2:24:30Flag of the United States.svg  Marilyn Bevans  (USA)3:04:32
15th1976Flag of the United States.svg  Bill O'Brian  (USA)2:26:40Flag of the United States.svg  Carolyn Hahn  (USA)3:25:40
16th1977Flag of the United States.svg  Max White  (USA)2:27:21Flag of the United States.svg  Ann Forshee  (USA)3:07:00
17th1978Flag of the United States.svg  Robert Doyle  (USA)2:22:14Flag of the United States.svg  Janet Norem  (USA)3:09:30
18th1979Flag of the United States.svg  Chris Mason  (USA)2:26:41Flag of the United States.svg  Val Hardin  (USA)3:09:39
19th1980Flag of the United States.svg  Bruce Robinson  (USA)2:26:32Flag of the United States.svg  Susan Crowe  (USA)3:06:52
20th1981Flag of the United States.svg  Jim Ulvestad  (USA)2:28:38Flag of the United States.svg  Laura DeWald  (USA)3:01:28
21st1982Flag of the United States.svg  Terry Baker  (USA)2:26:19Flag of the United States.svg  Vera Thornhill  (USA)3:07:58
22nd1983Flag of the United States.svg  Timothy Tays  (USA)2:26:22Flag of the United States.svg  Bunki Bankaitis-Davis  (USA)3:03:10
23rd1984Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Gordon Minty  (GBR)2:35:06Flag of the United States.svg  Suzanne Rohr  (USA)3:15:42
24th1985Flag of the United States.svg  Steve Saul  (USA)2:34:16Flag of the United States.svg  Margaret Horioka  (USA)3:07:19
25th1986Flag of the United States.svg  Charles Trayer  (USA)2:30:52Flag of the United States.svg  Margaret Horioka  (USA)3:14:12
26th1987Flag of the United States.svg  James Hage  (USA)2:28:59Flag of the United States.svg  Margaret Horioka  (USA)3:09:13
27th1988Flag of the United States.svg  James Hage  (USA)2:28:18Flag of the United States.svg  Rose Malloy  (USA)2:53:29
28th1989Flag of the United States.svg  John McGrail  (USA)2:30:25Flag of the United States.svg  Ruth Riemenschneider  (USA)3:07:25
29th1990Flag of the United States.svg  Jack Cleland  (USA)2:41:48Flag of the United States.svg  Renee Butler  (USA)3:11:04
30th1991Flag of the United States.svg  John Ausherman  (USA)2:39:34Flag of the United States.svg  Hiroko Smith  (USA)3:30:07
31st1992Flag of the United States.svg  Drew Rogers  (USA)2:40:13Flag of the United States.svg  Judith Bugyi  (USA)3:14:33
32nd1993Flag of the United States.svg  Ric Banning  (USA)2:46:46Flag of the United States.svg  Claudia Ciavarella  (USA)3:13:17
33rd1994Flag of the United States.svg  Alan Ruben  (USA)2:37:54Flag of the United States.svg  Bonnie Barnard  (USA)3:02:19
34th1995Flag of the United States.svg  Dominique LaLuz  (USA)2:46:41Flag of the United States.svg  Sandi Glass  (USA)3:11:29
35th1996Flag of the United States.svg  Tim Dunlap  (USA)2:43:25Flag of the United States.svg  LeAnn Myhre  (USA)3:25:54
36th1997Flag of the United States.svg  Paul Petersen  (USA)2:43:23Flag of the United States.svg  Sheila Gallop  (USA)3:27:50
37th1998Flag of the United States.svg  Guy Gordon  (USA)2:37:44Flag of the United States.svg  Joanna Tomazic  (USA)3:18:31
38th1999Flag of the United States.svg  Michael Rodgers  (USA)2:44:30Flag of the United States.svg  Lisa Bandiera  (USA)3:09:30
39th2000Flag of the United States.svg  John Weaver  (USA)2:57:57Flag of the United States.svg  Lisa Bandiera  (USA)3:29:12
40th2001Flag of the United States.svg  Todd Fach  (USA)2:44:14Flag of the United States.svg  Sarah McCarney  (USA)3:33:22
41st2002Flag of the United States.svg  Jonathan Dietrich  (USA)2:51:20Flag of the United States.svg  Lisa Bandiera  (USA)3:35:24
43rd2004Flag of the United States.svg  Joseph Filteau  (USA)3:10:10Flag of the United States.svg  Morgan Windram  (USA)3:18:34
44th2005Flag of the United States.svg  Joseph Lacovara-Switzer  (USA)2:49:25Flag of the United States.svg  Marie Sandrock  (USA)3:18:12
45th2006Flag of Germany.svg  Rainer Koch  (GER)2:57:57Flag of the United States.svg  Sarah Morrissey  (USA)3:28:33
46th2007Flag of the United States.svg  Luke Merkel  (USA)2:53:21Flag of the United States.svg  Patricia Zerfas  (USA)3:30:22
47th2008Flag of the United States.svg  Christopher Hamley  (USA)2:42:15Flag of the United States.svg  Lydia Decker  (USA)3:17:42
48th2009Flag of the United States.svg  Frank Leiter  (USA)2:51:31Flag of the United States.svg  Anya Oleynik  (USA)3:10:32
49th2010(cancelled because of snow)
50th2011Flag of the United States.svg  Karsten Brown  (USA)2:46:46Flag of the United States.svg  Lisa Bandiera  (USA)3:30:45
51st2012Flag of the United States.svg  Bill Uher  (USA)2:47:13Flag of the United States.svg  Kristi Hunt  (USA)3:32:22
52nd2013Flag of the United States.svg  Miles Aitken  (USA)3:08:43Flag of the United States.svg  Amanda An  (USA)3:35:02
53rd2014(cancelled because of snow)
54th2015Flag of the United States.svg  James Downey and Miguel Perez  (USA)

(cut to 9.7 miles because of snow)

1:04:33Flag of the United States.svg  Brenda Hodge  (USA)1:10:38
55th2016Flag of the United States.svg  Stephen Varney  (USA)3:02:49Flag of the United States.svg  Caroline Ferrell  (USA)3:54:16
56th2017Flag of the United States.svg  Mark Carter  (USA)2:58:04Flag of the United States.svg  Toni Diegoli  (USA)3:28:20
57th2018Flag of the United States.svg  Jeffrey Redfern  (USA)2:41:16Flag of the United States.svg  Kayla Campasino  (USA)3:04:32
58th2019Flag of the United States.svg  Masashi Shirotake  (USA)2:33:57Flag of the United States.svg  Christine Westcott  (USA)3:19:16
59th2020Flag of the United States.svg  Jeremy Ardanuy  (USA)2:26:53Flag of the United States.svg  Elena Makarevich  (USA)3:15:58
60th2021(virtual because of COVID-19 pandemic)
61st2022(canceled because of COVID-19 pandemic)
62nd2023 Christopher Collins 2:50:49Flag of the United States.svg  Elena Makarevich  (USA)3:12:09

References

  1. ↑ "George Washington Birthday Marathon". www.dcroadrunners.org. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08.
  2. ↑ "Home". George Washington's Birthday Marathon & Relay. Archived from the original on 4 June 2024. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  3. ↑ "Washington's Birthday Marathon". www.arrs.run. Retrieved 4 June 2024.

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