Men's Half Marathon: Coyle closes hard to claim San Francisco

• Thomas Coyle wins in 1:09:34 (5:18/mi), running down the leader with the fastest closing split from 10.9M to the finish among all 1,409 men.
• Justice Skolnik (1:11:30) and Jack Setser (1:11:55) rounded out the podium — separated by just 25 seconds, with Setser charging through the middle miles to earn his spot.
• Sergio Paredes Quintero ran the 4th-fastest 2.95M–5M split in the men's field to climb from 6th to 4th by mid-race, finishing in 1:12:51.
• Rohun Agrawal (1:14:23) and Lleyton Chan (1:16:49) — 18 and 17 years old respectively — cracked the men's top 20 against a field of 1,409.

Thomas Coyle spent most of the race in second place, sitting patiently through the first checkpoint, the second, and the third. Then, in the final stretch from 10.9 miles to the finish, he turned on the afterburners — posting the fastest closing split in the entire men's field — and crossed in 1:09:34 at 5:18/mi to take the win. It was a textbook patient-then-decisive race.

Justice Skolnik held third place through nearly the entire course before moving up to second in that same final segment, finishing in 1:11:30 with the second-fastest closing split among the men. Behind him, Jack Setser was doing his best work in the middle of the race — his 5M–10.9M split ranked third in the men's field — which helped him climb from 5th to 3rd and seal a 1:11:55 finish. The podium was earned in those contrasting stretches: Coyle and Skolnik were closers, Setser a mid-race mover.

Sergio Paredes Quintero made the most aggressive early move of anyone in the top ten, surging from 6th to 4th between miles 2.95 and 5 with the 4th-fastest split on that segment, then holding position through the finish in 1:12:51. Eddie Carrillo (1:13:10) backed up the closers' story — his 10.9M–Finish split was second only to Coyle's — while Kevin Kemmerle (1:13:36), Rohun Agrawal (1:14:23), and Aditya Bhagavathi (1:14:31) filled out a deep and competitive top ten. In a field of 1,409 men running the fog-shrouded streets of San Francisco, the race rewarded those who saved something for the end.