2024 United States Olympic trials (marathon)

The 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Marathon was held on Saturday, February 3, 2024, in Orlando, Florida, to determine the American athletes who will compete in the marathon event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. The race was hosted by the city of Orlando, in partnership with Orange County, Track Shack Events, the Greater Orlando Sports Commission, USA Track & Field, and the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee.^[1]

Entry standards for acceptance in the race were as follows:

Men's Marathon: 2:18:00

Men's Half Marathon: 1:03:00

Women's Marathon 2:37:00

Women's Half Marathon: 1:12:00

Qualifying performances must have occurred between January 1, 2022 and December 5, 2023 on a USATF-certified course. In total, 220 men qualified via a marathon time, while only 7 gained entry with a half marathon time. For women, 158 achieved the marathon standard and only 15 hit the half marathon mark. The total number of female qualifiers dropped from 512 in the 2020 United States Olympic Trials (marathon) to 173 in 2024, due mainly to the marathon entry standard dropping 8 minutes. On the men's side, the 227 qualifiers was a decrease of only 33 relative to 2020.^[2]

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Men's Marathon Place Athlete Time Conner Mantz 2:09:05 Clayton Young 2:09:06 Leonard Korir 2:09:57 4 Elkanah Kibet 2:10:02 5 CJ Albertson 2:10:07 6 Zach Panning 2:10:50 7 Nathan Martin 2:11:00 8 Josh Izewski 2:11:09 9 Reed Fischer 2:11:34 10 Colin Bennie 2:12:17 11 Abbabiya Simbassa 2:12:21 12 Connor Winter [d] 2:13:03 13 Connor Weaver 2:13:56 14 Futsum Zienasellassie 2:13:58 15 Daniel Mesfun 2:14:04 16 Galen Rupp 2:14:07 17 Josh Kalapos 2:14:26 18 Lyle O'Brien 2:14:29 19 Frank Lara 2:14:55 20 Colin Mickow 2:14:59 21 Jacob Heslington 2:15:12 22 Habtamu Cheney 2:15:43 23 Sydney Gidabuday 2:15:51 24 Nick Hauger [d] 2:15:56 25 Nadir Yusuf 2:16:15 26 Jerod Broadbooks 2:16:20 27 Garret Lee 2:16:35 28 Joel Reichow 2:16:37 29 Turner Wiley 2:16:42 30 Julian Heninger 2:16:45 31 Wilkerson Given [d] 2:16:51 32 Tai Smith 2:16:54 33 Alan Peterson 2:16:55 34 Ben Payne 2:17:05 35 Louis Serafini 2:17:09 36 Benjamin Robert Kendell [d] 2:17:23 37 Jon Phillips 2:17:49 38 Jonathan Aziz 2:17:50 39 Zachary Holden 2:17:50 40 Clint McKelvey 2:17:54 41 Chase Weaverling 2:17:54 42 Spencer Bossi-Johnson 2:18:15 43 Alex Burks 2:18:28 44 Malcolm Richards 2:18:32 45 Ben Schneiderman 2:18:43 46 Jack Mastandrea [d] 2:18:46 47 Wesley Robinson 2:18:50 48 Caleb Kerr 2:18:50 49 Nico Montanez 2:19:09 50 Roman Kirkov 2:19:15 51 John Dewitt 2:19:16 52 Jacob Shiohira 2:19:26 53 Awet Beraki 2:19:32 54 Benjamin Decker 2:19:35 55 Matt Gillette 2:19:42 56 Shadrack Kipchirchir 2:20:01 57 Michael Duggan 2:20:03 58 Kevin McDonnell 2:20:10 59 Martin Hehir 2:20:22 60 Aidan Reed 2:20:29 61 Kevin Koski 2:20:34 62 Afewerki Zeru 2:20:36 63 Will Norris 2:20:39 64 Danny Docherty 2:20:41 65 Matt McDonald 2:20:45 66 Michael Blaszczyk 2:20:49 67 Nick Wolk 2:20:53 68 Colin Martin 2:20:55 69 Matt Llano 2:20:58 70 Marcos Bailon 2:21:07 71 Prescott Leach 2:21:07 72 Dominic Hockenbury 2:21:15 73 Dylan Marx 2:21:34 74 David Fuentes 2:21:37 75 Jesse Joseph 2:21:42 76 Jackson Neff 2:21:47 77 Tyler Pence 2:21:49 78 Alberto Mena 2:21:50 79 Mitchell Klingler 2:21:55 80 Mason Jones 2:21:58 81 Alex Norstrom 2:21:59 82 William Loevner 2:22:10 83 Oscar Medina 2:22:13 84 Joost Plaetinck 2:22:19 85 Grayson Hough 2:22:23 86 Jordan Daniel 2:22:25 87 Ryder Searle 2:22:29 88 James Withers 2:22:32 89 Joseph Whelan 2:22:37 90 Riley Cook 2:22:53 91 Sam Geha 2:22:55 92 Jake Ritter 2:22:58 93 Scott Nelson 2:23:05 94 Kevin Salvano 2:23:13 95 Charlie Sweeney 2:23:15 96 Jonathan Mott 2:23:19 97 Ryan Cutter 2:23:24 98 Johnny Rutford 2:23:37 99 Ryan Jara 2:23:37 100 Duriel Hardy 2:23:43 101 Andrew McCann 2:23:45 102 Brian Harvey 2:23:47 103 John McGowan 2:23:54 104 Tyler McCandless [d] 2:23:57 105 Zachary Ornelas 2:24:08 106 Medhane Woldu 2:24:11 107 Austin Bogina 2:24:17 108 Jesse Davis 2:24:17 109 Marcus Graham 2:24:24 110 Ryan Root 2:24:33 111 Eddie Mulder 2:24:43 112 Erik Linden 2:24:59 113 Owen Ritz 2:25:24 114 Adam Wollant 2:25:26 115 Evan Landes 2:25:28 116 Donald Cowart 2:25:33 117 Paxton Smith 2:25:38 118 Phillip Reid 2:25:41 119 Spencer Friske 2:25:44 120 Mark Messmer 2:25:51 121 Dylan Belles 2:25:59 122 Tyler Jermann 2:26:01 123 Mitchell Ammons 2:26:03 124 Joseph Trojan 2:26:08 125 Henry Sterling 2:27:14 126 Thomas Slattery 2:27:18 127 Connor Rocket 2:27:24 128 Brendan Martin 2:27:27 129 Daniel Vassallo 2:27:31 130 Travis Morrison 2:28:06 131 Zac Hine 2:28:07 132 Daniel Schubert 2:28:10 133 Jarrod Ottman 2:28:31 134 Chad Beyer 2:28:59 135 Jason Weitzel 2:29:26 136 Carmeron Dickson 2:29:30 137 Matt Lenehan 2:30:23 138 Johnny Hogue 2:30:47 139 Kurt Roeser 2:30:55 140 Noah Steffen 2:31:00 141 Henry Williams 2:31:37 142 Swarnjit Boyal 2:32:31 143 Pardon Ndhlovu 2:33:26 144 Adam Sjolund 2:33:57 145 Kevin Lewis 2:36:34 146 Zachary Ripley 2:37:48 147 Tyler Sickler 2:38:46 148 Jakob Kintzele 2:41:57 149 Kevin Colon 2:45:10 150 Matt Rand 2:50:35 Paul Chelimo DNF Scott Fauble Andrew Colley Teshome Mekonen J.P. Flavin Jacob Thomson Shadrack Biwott John Raneri Tyler Pennel Abinet Adraro Abdi Abdirahman Mick Iacofano Sam Chelanga Brian Shrader Reid Buchanan Parker Stinson Jake Riley Noah Droddy Weston Strum Charlie Lawrence Jonas Hampton Emilio De La Torre James Quattlebaum Aaron Gruen Ian Butler Isaac Benz Will Cross T-Roy Brown Collin Buck

Women's Marathon Place Athlete Time Fiona O'Keeffe 2:22:10 Emily Sisson 2:22:42 Dakotah Lindwurm 2:25:31 4 Jessica McClain 2:25:46 5 Sara Hall 2:26:06 6 Caroline Rotich 2:26:10 7 Makenna Myler 2:26:14 8 Lindsay Flanagan 2:26:25 9 Emily Durgin [d] 2:27:56 10 Annie Frisbie 2:27:56 11 Desiree Linden 2:28:04 12 Savannah Berry 2:29:17 13 Molly Grabill 2:30:16 14 Sarah Sellers 2:30:17 15 Kellyn Taylor 2:30:28 16 Anne-Marie Blaney 2:30:43 17 Tristin van Ord 2:30:46 18 Jessa Hanson 2:31:02 19 Gabriella Rooker 2:31:25 20 Maya Weigel 2:32:16 21 Amy Davis [d] 2:33:09 22 Margaretha Montoya 2:33:12 23 Marybeth Chelanga 2:33:33 24 Roberta Groner 2:33:33 25 Jacqueline Gaughan 2:34:12 26 Katja Goldring 2:34:24 27 Andrea Pomaranski 2:34:35 28 Natosha Rogers 2:34:51 29 Brittney Feivor 2:34:53 30 Amber Zimmerman 2:34:58 31 English Tomlinson 2:35:13 32 Parley Hannan 2:35:13 33 Regan Rome 2:35:31 34 Veronica Eder 2:35:46 35 Jane Bareikis 2:35:53 36 Bria Wetsch 2:36:00 37 Katie Kellner 2:36:07 38 Grace Moore 2:36:23 39 Tori Parkinson 2:36:43 40 Kim Horner 2:36:47 41 Peyton Thomas 2:36:56 42 Allie Schaich 2:37:14 43 Abby McNulty 2:37:19 44 Sakiko Minagawa 2:37:25 45 Amanda Phillips 2:37:33 46 Sydney Devore 2:37:59 47 Peighton Meske 2:38:05 48 Rachel Hyland 2:38:12 49 Bridget Lyons 2:38:16 50 Kathryn Fluehr 2:38:20 51 Dorothy McMahan 2:38:34 52 Elizabeth Bigelow 2:38:34 53 Mackenzie Caldwell 2:38:37 54 Jessica Watychowicz 2:38:51 55 Kelsey Bruce 2:39:06 56 Carrie Verdon 2:39:25 57 Olivia Pratt [d] 2:39:29 58 Taylor Dare 2:39:40 59 Christina Welsh 2:39:44 60 Meriah Earle [d] 2:39:46 61 Annmarie Tuxbury 2:39:53 62 Holly Clarke 2:39:55 63 Stephanie Sherman [d] 2:39:58 64 Elvin Kibet 2:40:03 65 Mimi Smith 2:40:09 66 Stephanie Rouse 2:40:21 67 Kathy Vandehy 2:40:29 68 Amelia Keyser-Gibson 2:40:35 69 Tammy Hsieh 2:40:36 70 Rosa Moriello 2:40:45 71 Sara Lopez 2:40:55 72 Ava Nuttall 2:41:02 73 Heather Kampf 2:41:04 74 Flannery Davis 2:41:09 75 Jeralyn Poe 2:41:15 76 Adrian Walsh 2:41:22 77 Molly Culver 2:41:52 78 Kaylee Bogina 2:42:02 79 Sarah Reiter 2:42:36 80 Megan O'Neil [d] 2:42:51 81 Ann Pierce 2:43:04 82 Breanna Sieracki 2:43:17 83 Elizabeth Chikotas 2:43:26 84 Erin Gregoire 2:43:28 85 Kayla Lampe 2:43:32 86 Kidan Kidane 2:43:37 87 Caroline Williams 2:43:51 88 Jennifer Pope 2:43:55 89 Caroline Cole 2:44:15 90 Hailey Bowes 2:44:56 91 Lucy Dobbs 2:45:29 92 Claire Benjamin 2:45:34 93 Elaine Estes 2:45:42 94 Laura Paulsen 2:46:51 95 Sara Passani 2:46:52 96 Madison Offstein [d] 2:46:58 97 Julia Vasquez 2:46:59 98 Hannah Becker 2:46:59 99 Kaitlyn Peale 2:47:14 100 Madeline Duhon 2:47:37 101 Stephanie Bruce 2:47:42 102 Lillian Anderson 2:48:42 103 Alexandra Greitzer 2:48:50 104 Emma Huston 2:48:55 105 Annie Heffernan 2:49:51 106 Katie Florio 2:49:52 107 Kaitlin Donner 2:50:01 108 Britney Romero 2:52:51 109 Natalie Callister 2:53:10 110 Ashlee Powers 2:54:00 111 Joanna Reyes 2:55:37 112 Kir Selert 2:58:23 113 Ariane Hendrix-Roach 2:58:30 114 Johanna Butler 3:01:31 115 Tara Welling 3:12:37 116 Sofie Schunk 3:22:26 Keira D'Amato DNF Betsy Saina Jenny Simpson Aliphine Tuliamuk Laura Thweatt Erika Kemp Nell Rojas Sara Vaughn Sarah Pagano Buchanan Jessie Cardin Lauren Hagans Molly Huddle Katrina Spratford Molly Bookmyer Jaci Smith Regan Rome Mary Denholm Kelsey Pontius Isabel Hebner Monica Hebner Maegan Krifchin

On the men's side pre-race favorites to make the team included two-time defending champion Rupp, Mantz, Young, Korir, Panning, Fauble, and Chelanga. Paul Chelimo, a two-time olympic medalist in the 5000m would be making his marathon debut and hoping to get on the team. Many considered Conner Mantz to be the favorite to win the trials, given his consistency in the distance over the last few years and being the top American in a deep Chicago marathon race in 2023.

It was a warm and sunny day in Orlando, with a temperature of 63 degrees at the start and 70 at the finish. Of the 200 men who started the race, 150 finished and 50 dropped out. At the front, Panning took the lead after 5 miles and pushed the pace. By 20 miles, he had whittled the leaders down to himself, Mantz, and Young. After running many miles in the 4:40s and 4:50s range, Panning would fade badly over the final 5K. Training partners Mantz and Young went 1-2 to secure their olympic spots. Leonard Korir would run down Elkanah Kibet over the last mile to take third.^[4] Since the US only had two spots unlocked by Mantz and Young achieving the olympic standard in Chicago 2023, Korir would have to wait to see if his ranking held up for him to go to the olympics. In June, Korir was confirmed to have earned the olympic spot. ^[5]

Results

• "U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Marathon | Results | World Athletics". World Athletics. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
• "U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Marathon Live Results". U.S. Olympic Trials Live Results. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
• "2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials Results". NBC Sports. 2024-02-03. Retrieved 2024-02-03.

• Official webpage at USATF

• Official Results

• Athlete Bios