Top Results 2012 US Half Marathon Championships: Goucher and Abdi Win
By LetsRun.com
June 16, 2012
Top results of the 2012 US Half Marathon Championships in Duluth, Minnesota, which were part of Grandma's Marathon weekend, are below.
On the men's side, Abdi Abdirahman who already has qualified for his 4th US Olympic team in the marathon got the win over Brett Gotcher, fifth at the US Olympic Marathon Trials. US Master's ace Kevin Castille ran 1:06:02.
On the women's side, 2012 US Olympic Marathoner Kara Goucher won her final half-marathon tune-up before the Olympics in her home state of Minnesota. The runner-up was Stotan Racing's Maegan Krifchin. For more on Krifchin click here. 15 year old Alana Hadley ran 1:16:59, but that's not even as fast as her age group record of 1:16:36.
| 1 | Abdi Abdirahman | 35 | Tucson | AZ | 1:02:46 | $12000 |
| 2 | Brett Gotcher | 27 | Flagstaff | AZ | 1:02:49 | $8000 |
| 3 | Ian Burrell | 27 | Tucson | AZ | 1:02:51 | $5000 |
| 4 | Michael Eaton | 25 | Bowling Green | KY | 1:03:16 | $4000 |
| 5 | Timothy Ritchie | 24 | Brighton | MA | 1:03:57 | $3000 |
| 6 | Mike Morgan | 32 | Rochester Hills | MI | 1:04:08 | $2000 |
| 7 | Jason Hartmann | 31 | Boulder | CO | 1:04:18 | $1500 |
| 8 | Patrick Rizzo | 28 | Boulder | CO | 1:04:20 | $1000 |
| 9 | Nicholas Arciniaga | 28 | Flagstaff | AZ | 1:04:26 | $800 |
| 10 | Michael Reneau | 34 | St Paul | MN | 1:04:37 | $700 |
| 11 | Matt Gabrielson | 33 | St Louis Park | MN | 1:04:42 | $500 |
| 12 | Joe Moore | 28 | Minneapolis | MN | 1:04:43 | $250 |
| 13 | Jimmy Grabow | 27 | Running Springs | CA | 1:04:53 | |
| 14 | Zachary Hine | 24 | Lakewood | CO | 1:05:01 | |
| 15 | Scott Wietecha | 30 | Hendersonville | TN | 1:05:02 | |
| 16 | Craig Curley | 23 | Tucson | AZ | 1:05:10 | |
| 17 | Jeremy Criscione | 24 | Bartow | FL | 1:05:12 | |
| 18 | Stephan Shay | 26 | Huntington Beach | CA | 1:05:16 | |
| 19 | Josh Moen | 30 | Eden Prairie | MN | 1:05:25 | |
| 20 | Ricky Flynn | 24 | Lynchburg | VA | 1:05:28 | |
| 21 | Jason Ordway | 24 | Bellbrook | OH | 1:05:29 | |
| 22 | Matthew Llano | 23 | Minneapolis | MN | 1:05:38 | |
| 23 | Tyler Sigl | 26 | Green Bay | WI | 1:05:48 | |
| 24 | Eric Loeffler | 35 | Fargo | ND | 1:06:00 | |
| 25 | Joshua Eberly | 31 | Gunnison | CO | 1:06:01 | |
| 26 | Kevin Castille | 40 | Nicholasville | KY | 1:06:02 | |
| 27 | Jake Krong | 28 | Salt Lake City | UT | 1:06:02 |
Women's Results
On the women's side, 2012 US Olympic Marathoner Kara Goucher won her final half-marathon tune-up before the Olympics in her home state of Minnesota. The runner-up was Stotan Racing's Maegan Krifchin. For more on Krifchin click here. 15 year old Alana Hadley ran 1:16:59, but that's not even as fast as her age group record of 1:16:36.
| 1 | Kara Goucher | 33 | Portland | OR | 1:09:46 | $12000 |
| 2 | Maegan Krifchin | 24 | Dewitt | NY | 1:10:56 | $8000 |
| 3 | Michelle Frey | 30 | Minneapolis | MN | 1:11:45 | $5000 |
| 4 | Melissa Johnson-White | 31 | Orion Township | MI | 1:12:05 | $4000 |
| 5 | Alvina Begay | 31 | Flagstaff | AZ | 1:12:25 | $3000 |
| 6 | Emily Brown | 27 | Minnetonka | MN | 1:12:44 | $2000 |
| 7 | Wendy Thomas | 33 | Windsor | CO | 1:12:56 | $1500 |
| 8 | Jeannette Faber | 30 | Portland | OR | 1:13:27 | $1000 |
| 9 | Stephanie Pezzullo | 30 | Charlotte | NC | 1:13:43 | $800 |
| 10 | Lindsey Scherf | 25 | Fayetteville | NC | 1:14:03 | $700 |
| 11 | Sheri Piers | 41 | Falmouth | ME | 1:14:19 | $500 |
| 12 | Brianne Nelson | 31 | Fort Collins | CO | 1:14:29 | $250 |
| 13 | Nuta Olaru | 41 | Longmont | CO | 1:14:43 | |
| 14 | Erin Vergara | 31 | Indianapolis | IN | 1:14:45 | |
| 15 | Mattie Suver | 24 | Jelm | WY | 1:14:49 | |
| 16 | Allison Mendez | 23 | Austin | TX | 1:15:28 | |
| 17 | Rachel Booth | 31 | Mandeville | LA | 1:15:30 | |
| 18 | Yiou Wang | 27 | Mill Valley | CA | 1:15:40 | |
| 19 | Mary Akor | 35 | Hawthorne | CA | 1:15:49 | |
| 20 | Loretta Kilmer | 29 | Waldorf | MD | 1:15:52 | |
| 21 | Kim Robinson | 29 | Bloomington | MN | 1:16:05 | |
| 22 | Brooke Wells | 27 | San Francisco | CA | 1:16:19 | |
| 23 | Ladia Albertson-Junkans | 26 | Minneapolis | MN | 1:16:22 | |
| 24 | Raquel Stucky | 36 | Pretty Prairie | KS | 1:16:24 | |
| 25 | Katherine Newberry | 33 | Ann Arbor | MI | 1:16:29 | |
| 26 | Heidi Westover | 31 | Walpole | NH | 1:16:30 | |
| 27 | Laurie Knowles | 34 | Atlanta | GA | 1:16:41 | |
| 28 | Kristina Vegh | 28 | Flagstaff | AZ | 1:16:43 | |
| 29 | Alana Hadley | 15 | Charlotte | NC | 1:16:59 |
*The USA Running Circuit site will have more post-race coverage.
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