(Cincinnati, Oh.)-- The 19th annul Flying Pig Marathon powered by P&G pulled in over 100,000 people to downtown this weekend. This years marathon had over 18,000 people participating in Sundays events, that include the full and half marathon and the 4 person relay
2017 Final Registration Numbers per Race:
Full Marathon: 4,049
Paycor Half Marathon: 12,071
City Dash 4-Person Relay/Aetna Corporate 4-Person Relay: 2,344
The total numbers of those taking part in events all weekend is 37,244 for total participation.
Toyota 10K: 4,955
Tri-State Running Company 5K: 6,413
Kids Marathon (one miler) presented by Ernst & Young: 3,648
Pigabilities: 294
Piglet Fun Run: 569
IAMS Flying Fur Dog Walk/Run: 688
Little Kings Mile: 2,513
Participants represented all 50 states and over 20 countries.
The in the Paycor Half Marathon winner were 28-year-old Tommy Kauffmann, a 2016 U.S. Olympic Marathon qualifier. He finished today's race in 1:08:32. The Second place finisher was 25-year-old Jake Kasperski of Perrysburg, OH, in 1:11:41 and The Third place finisher was 34-year-old Matt Behrensmeyer of Villa Hills, KY, who also came in third last year, in 1:13:05.
For the women, 27-year-old Lara Crofford, an assistant track and cross country coach at the University of Cincinnati, won the women's division of the Paycor Half Marathon in a time of 1:20:23.
Runner-up for the second year in a row was 28-year-old Katie Lenahan of Cincinnati, a three-time winner of the Queen Bee Half Marathon, in 1:23:01, and third was 30-year-old Kristen Leslie of Cincinnati in 1:25:02.
In the men’s division of the Flying Pig Marathon powered by P&G a recent graduate from the University of Cincinnati ran away with the title, 22-year-old Jack Randall, who graduated last weekend from the University of Cincinnati, won in a time of 2:33:46. It was the fifth marathon for the former member of UC’s Running Club but his first Flying Pig Marathon.
Second among the men was 21-year-old Emmett Saulnier of Terrace Park in 2:35:15 and third was 37-year-old Brian Korody of Cincinnati with a time of 2:42:10.
After coming in second or third in the Flying Pig Marathon for the last six years, Anderson High School cross country coach Kerry Lee, finally won the women’s division of the Flying Pig Marathon. Lee, who won in a time of 2:53:55, came in second last year as well as in 2015, 2013 and 2011.
The 42-year-old Lee was third in the women’s field in 2012 and 2014.Coming in second in the women’s division with a time of 3:00:04 was 42-year-old Wendy Marshall of Cincinnati, who just ran the Boston Marathon, and third with a time of 3:02:59 was Katie Aerni, 35, a Cincinnati native now in West Virginia whose brother, John, won the Flying Pig Marathon in 2003.