F35-39: Teran Runs Down the Field in 2:58

• Jacqueline Teran won F35-39 in 2:58:11 (6:48/mi), holding 2nd among women through most of the race before settling into 3rd — the fastest finish in this group by more than nine minutes.
• Thia Angelo (3rd, 3:08:51) returned to the SF Marathon podium having finished 4th among women here in 2024 with a 2:59:23 — a tough day relative to that benchmark, but still a strong top-three result in a 270-runner field.
• Rayna Harris was the race's great mover: she ran in 67th among women at the early checkpoints and clawed her way to 26th by the finish, posting the 15th-fastest women's split on the 20M→22M stretch.
• Natalia Chepik (4th, 3:14:17) had the 2nd-fastest women's split on that same 20M→22M segment — a powerful late surge that couldn't quite close the gap to the podium.

Jacqueline Teran owned this race from the front. Running 6:48/mi through the breezy, 59°F San Francisco morning, she sat 2nd among women as early as the 2M mark and never let the leaders out of sight — including posting the 3rd-fastest women's split on the 2M→4M stretch. She eventually settled to 3rd among women overall, but within F35-39 she was untouchable, winning by more than nine minutes over Justyna Szymańska's 3:07:21.

Szymańska (2nd, 7:09/mi) and Thia Angelo (3rd, 3:08:51, 7:12/mi) ran the middle stages in lockstep among the top women, trading gender places in the single digits throughout. Angelo's presence on the podium carries extra weight: she was 4th among women at this same race in 2024 — so back on the SF streets, she converted that near-miss into a podium finish. The 90-second gap between her and Szymańska at the line reflects a real difference in pace across those final miles.

The back half of the race belonged to Chepik and Harris. Chepik's 2nd-fastest women's split from miles 20 to 22 was a genuine late hammer, finishing in 3:14:17 for 4th. Harris's story was different but equally compelling: she ran the first half buried in the mid-60s among women and spent 26 miles moving forward, arriving at 26th among women and 5th in F35-39 at 3:21:58. In a 270-finisher field that stretched well past 3:45, those two performances gave the race its sharpest drama beyond the podium.