CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -The Cleveland half and full marathons shut down town on Sunday.
An estimated 11,000 runners registered for the weekend’s occasions.
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Ashton Swinford, from Hudson, was the primary feminine finisher within the full-marathon distance. This was her 4th 12 months in a row as a prime finisher in Cleveland.
Zach Kreft, from Sunbury, got here in first for the lads’s division.
Ry Martin-Yates from Cleveland received the half marathon’s non-binary division.
This 12 months’s Cleveland half marathon was Wesley Boland’s 4th time operating a 13.1-mile race.
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He informed 19 Information that when his toes obtained a bit of heavy, it was the group and his household that helped propel him ahead.
“The followers on the aspect of the street had been wonderful,” mentioned Boland. “You simply love studying all of the indicators and laughing as you go by. It was a fantastic race.”
The roads had been stuffed with households, buddies, and strangers yelling on the prime of their lungs.
Carla Merrick was on the sidelines cheering on her daughter, who was operating her first full marathon.
“She’s actually simply anticipating to complete,” mentioned Merrick, laughing. “She hasn’t set any time expectations.”
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Sam Snodgrass, from Pittsburgh, got here in first within the males’s half marathon and set a brand new course file with a time of 1:07:29.
Emma Johnson from Dayton received the ladies’s half-marathon.
Whereas some runners had a transparent and concrete aim, others had been tougher to see with the bare eye.
John Johnson was operating for a goal.
19 Information first introduced you his story last year. A couple of years in the past, he was recognized with stage 2 colorectal most cancers.
Decided to struggle, he now calls himself a survivor.
Johnson and his physician, who handled him, simply ran within the Boston Marathon.
Decided to beat their instances and unfold consciousness, they took on the Cleveland Marathon on Sunday.
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