F19 & Under: Schlatter Dominates as 62 Young Runners Tackle the Bay

• Corinna Schlatter, 16, wins in 40:41 (6:33/mi) — a 6-minute gap over 2nd place, and the 6th-fastest closing split among all women.
• Top-four finishers are all 15 or 16 years old, with 15-year-old Elise Broizat (3rd, 47:56) traveling from Saint-Hilaire-de-Brens to earn her podium spot.
• Tightest battle of the race: Aden Barbuta (6th, 51:28), Kathleen McCarthy (7th, 51:48), and Alexa Flores (5th, 51:11) were separated by just 37 seconds across three spots.
• 62 finishers completed the F19 & Under race on a cool, foggy San Francisco morning — 57°F and 93% humidity along the course.

Corinna Schlatter, 16, from Saint Helena, made the F19 & Under race her own from the start. She crossed in 40:41 at a 6:33/mi clip — six full minutes clear of 2nd-place Abigail Keller — and backed it up with the 6th-fastest closing split (4.62M to finish) among all the women in the race. That's not just a win; it's a statement performance from a teenager running at a pace that held up against the entire women's field.

Behind Schlatter, Keller (16, Clayton, CA) held 22nd among women through the first checkpoint before slipping to 25th by the finish, crossing in 46:41 at 7:31/mi. Elise Broizat — 15 years old and making the trip from France — ran a composed 7:43/mi to claim 3rd in 47:56, fading slightly from 30th to 35th among women in the closing miles. Rose Duncan (4th, 50:01) rounded out an all-15-and-16-year-old podium, holding her women's place steady from 47th to 46th.

The race got genuinely interesting from 5th through 7th. Alexa Flores (19, King City) took 5th in 51:11, but her 98th-fastest closing split among women — the slowest in the top six — suggests she gave some ground late. Barbuta (51:28) and McCarthy (51:48) were right behind her, separated by just 20 seconds for 6th and 7th. Further back, 14-year-old Sofie Lindberg from Sweden ran a confident 8:39/mi to finish 9th in 53:42 — the youngest finisher in the listed results and well clear of the field behind her.