Falmouth Road Race

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherTemplate:Ensure AAA contrast ratio The Falmouth Road Race is an annual Script error: No such module "convert". road race on Cape Cod from Woods Hole, a village in the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts, to Falmouth Heights.

The race organizer is Falmouth Road Race, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization that puts on the race each year with proceeds to benefit local charities. It has its own logo as well. The race director is Dave McGillivray of DMSE Sports, Inc.

ASICS, an athletic footwear and apparel company, became the title sponsor of the race in 2021.

History

The logo for the race organizer, Falmouth Road Race, Inc.
The logo for the race organizer, Falmouth Road Race, Inc.

The race was the idea of Tommy Leonard, an avid runner and popular bartender in Boston and Falmouth. During the 1972 Summer Olympics, Leonard closed his bar in order to watch Frank Shorter win the first Olympic marathon for the United States since 1908. After Shorter won the marathon Leonard was quoted as saying "Wouldn't it be fantastic if we could get Frank Shorter to run in a race on Cape Cod?" One year later, in the summer of 1973, with the help of the town's recreation director Rich Sherman, and a local high school track coach John Carroll, the first Falmouth Road Race was run by approximately 100 people. The next year there were 445 runners, and the year after that Frank Shorter joined 850 other runners in the race, bringing Leonard's wish true. Today the ASICS Falmouth Road Race is considered one of the premier non-marathon races in the country, if not the world, attracting over 10,000 runners each year.[1] The field of runners typically includes many of the best American and international runners, including both past and future Olympic athletes.

Entry

More people apply for places than can be accommodated in the race, so a random selection process is held to select the field of runners. The application period is a short window of time during the first half of May. Applications must be submitted online on the race website. A number of places are especially reserved for Falmouth residents. Five runners, celebrated through the years as "The Falmouth Five" Mike Bennett, Tom Brannelly, Don Delinks, Ron Pokraka and Brian Salzberg, have officially completed 46 consecutive Falmouth Road Races.

Course

The beginning of the course is extremely hilly, with a starting line by the Captain Kidd Restaurant & Bar in Woods Hole, and a finish by the Falmouth Heights beach. From the start corral, one races up a gradually steepening incline and into a narrow wooded road, emerging onto a long curved coastal stretch that runs by Nobska Light, continuing along a wooded road with gentle rolling hills, emerging onto Surf Drive along a hot beach on Martha's Vineyard Sound, past beach cottages on stilts, before turning inland toward the center of Falmouth town, along Falmouth Harbor, and finally looping back to the shore route for one last Script error: No such module "convert". hill that crests just before the finish.

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Winners

The starting line of the 2016 Falmouth Road Race.
The starting line of the 2016 Falmouth Road Race.

Key:

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Edition Year Men's winner Time (m:s) Women's winner Time (m:s)
52nd 2024 Template:Flagathlete 31:15 Template:Flagathlete 36:10
51st 2023 Template:Flagathlete 31:08 Template:Flagathlete 35:13
50th 2022 Template:Flagathlete 32:25 Template:Flagathlete 36:14
49th 2021 Template:Flagathlete 32:16 Template:Flagathlete 36:52
47th 2019 Template:Flagathlete 32:11 Template:Flagathlete 36:29
46th 2018 Template:Flagathlete[3] 32:21 Template:Flagathlete[3] 35:48
45th 2017 Template:Flagathlete 32:14 Template:Flagathlete 35:53
44th 2016 Template:Flagathlete[4] 32:10 Template:Flagathlete[4] 36:25
43rd 2015 Template:Flagathlete[5] 32:17 Template:Flagathlete[5] 36:47
42nd 2014[6] Template:Flagathlete[7] 31:46 Template:Flagathlete[7] 35:56
41st 2013 Template:Flagathlete[7] 32:10 Template:Flagathlete[7] 36:43
40th 2012 Template:Flagathlete 31:59 Template:Flagathlete 36:54
39th 2011 Template:Flagathlete 31:37 Template:Flagathlete 36:58
38th 2010 Template:Flagathlete 32:20 Template:Flagathlete 35:46
37th 2009 Template:Flagathlete 31:41 Template:Flagathlete 36:23
36th 2008 Template:Flagathlete 32:01 Template:Flagathlete 37:02
35th 2007 Template:Flagathlete 31:53 Template:Flagathlete 36:31
34th 2006 Template:Flagathlete 31:53 Template:Flagathlete 35:43
33rd 2005 Template:Flagathlete 31:59 Template:Flagathlete 36:13
32nd 2004 Template:Flagathlete 31:08 Template:Flagathlete 36:13
31st 2003 Template:Flagathlete 31:59 Template:Flagathlete 37:08
30th 2002 Template:Flagathlete 32:10 Template:Flagathlete 35:13
29th 2001 Template:Flagathlete 32:26 Template:Flagathlete 36:26
28th 2000 Template:Flagathlete 31:43 Template:Flagathlete 35:02
27th 1999 Template:Flagathlete 32:06 Template:Flagathlete 36:32
26th 1998 Template:Flagathlete 31:48 Template:Flagathlete 36:10
25th 1997 Template:Flagathlete 31:58 Template:Flagathlete 36:19
24th 1996 Template:Flagathlete 31:36 Template:Flagathlete 35:37
23rd 1995 Template:Flagathlete 32:10 Template:Flagathlete 36:23
22nd 1994 Template:Flagathlete 31:59 Template:Flagathlete 37:01
21st 1993 Template:Flagathlete 32:30 Template:Flagathlete 36:42
20th 1992 Template:Flagathlete 31:52 Template:Flagathlete 36:13
19th 1991 Template:Flagathlete 32:14 Template:Flagathlete 37:32
18th 1990 Template:Flagathlete 32:55 Template:Flagathlete 36:39
17th 1989 Template:Flagathlete 32:14 Template:Flagathlete 36:21
16th 1988 Template:Flagathlete 32:22 Template:Flagathlete 36:36
15th 1987 Template:Flagathlete 32:19 Template:Flagathlete 36:59
14th 1986 Template:Flagathlete 32:17 Template:Flagathlete 36:54
13th 1985 Template:Flagathlete 32:02.3 Template:Flagathlete 36:17.7
12th 1984 Template:Flagathlete 32:17 Template:Flagathlete 37:00
11th 1983 Template:Flagathlete 32:20 Template:Flagathlete 36:21
10th 1982 Template:Flagathlete 31:53.3 Template:Flagathlete 36:33.7
9th 1981 Template:Flagathlete 31:55.6 Template:Flagathlete 38:15.5
8th 1980 Template:Flagathlete 32:20.4 Template:Flagathlete 37:12.3
7th 1979 Template:Flagathlete 32:19.7 Template:Flagathlete 38:16
6th 1978 Template:Flagathlete 32:21 Template:Flagathlete 39:07
5th 1977 Template:Flagathlete 32:23 Template:Flagathlete 38:40
4th 1976 Template:Flagathlete 33:14 Template:Flagathlete 43:08
3rd 1975 Template:Flagathlete 33:24 Template:Flagathlete 44:23
2nd 1974 Template:Flagathlete 34:16 Template:Flagathlete 44:31
1st 1973 Template:Flagathlete 39:16 Template:Flagathlete 47:23

Wheelchair division

The race also has a wheelchair division with course records held by Daniel Romanchuck, USA, at 21:58 and Tatyana McFadden, USA, at 26:15, both set in 2019.

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List of winners

External links

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