Women's Marathon: Zimmermann Defends, Frketich Storms Home

• Leandra Zimmermann wins in 2:45:14 (6:18/mi), defending her 2023 title and going back-to-back across editions we have on record.
• Amanda Frketich, 19, finishes 2nd in 2:52:29 with the fastest women's closing split (24M→Finish) — a late charge that flipped her from 3rd to 2nd.
• Jacqueline Teran holds 2nd through mile 16 before fading to 3rd in 2:58:11; Camille Moore runs the steadiest race of the top five, 4th wire-to-wire in 2:58:45.
• Mackinly Kifer (3:07:26, 9th) backed up a 2nd-place finish in Saturday's 5K to complete a strong weekend double across two races.

Leandra Zimmermann never relinquished the lead. She sat first among women from the opening checkpoint to the finish tape, and her 6:18/mi average tells you why — nobody in this 2,086-woman field could match that sustained output. Her fastest women's split came early, on the 2M–4M stretch, where she put daylight between herself and the field before San Francisco's hills could complicate things. Three years after her 2023 win, Zimmermann is back on top.

The race's most compelling subplot played out behind her. Jacqueline Teran ran in 2nd from miles 2 through 16, posting the 3rd-fastest women's split on that early 2M–4M segment and looking like a legitimate threat to the runner-up spot. But 19-year-old Amanda Frketich, running from Burnaby, BC, had other plans. Frketich moved from 3rd to 2nd between miles 16 and 24, then sealed it with the fastest women's closing split of the entire field over the final stretch — finishing in 2:52:29. Teran crossed in 2:58:11, 34 seconds back. It wasn't a collapse; it was a catch-up, and Frketich ran it faster when it mattered most.

Camille Moore was the model of consistency, sitting 4th at every single checkpoint and finishing 4th in 2:58:45 — 34 seconds behind Teran and just 6:49/mi through the whole course. Chihiro Miya of 印旛郡酒々井町 moved up from 7th at the early check to 5th by mile 4 and held it all the way to the finish in 2:59:29, claiming the final sub-3:00 spot. Thia Angelo (3:08:51, 10th) returns to this race having gone 4th here in 2024 with a 2:59:23 — a slower day this time, but still inside the top ten of a deep field. Jenny Xu, 14th in 3:13:38, improved meaningfully on her 9th-place, 3:03:44 from 2025, though the field around her was faster this year.