Tallahassee athletes in the 2022 Boston Marathon

The history of the annual Boston Marathon from 1897 to 2022 hasn't been without interruptions. The race keeps coming back, though. It came back after World War I. It came back after the 2013 bombing. It came back after a pandemic. The grand old marathon returned to Patriot's Day on 18 April 2022, and there were Tallahassee athletes on the starting line in Hopkinton, Massachusetts for the occasion None of them were challenging Evans Chebet for the win when the Kenyan ran 2:06:51, nor was any athlete from Florida's Capital City in the mix when Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir outkicked Ababel Yeshaneh of Ethiopia for the women's title, 2:21:01 to 2:21:05. Nevertheless, they were there.


Tallahassee's first finisher in the 2022 Boston Marathon was Michael Niezgoda, who placed 2164th overall and 2045th in the men's standings with a 2:56:47. Tallahassee's first woman was Claire Berryman, who ran 3:23:02 to place 8492nd overall and 1629th in the women's division. Jon Maner was the first master runner from Tallahassee in the race, placing 6394th in 3:16:23. The Capital City's first woman master in the marathon was Samantha Fillmore, 17040th overall and 6218th in the women's standings with a 4:01:44.


The history of Tallahassee athletes in the Boston Marathon goes back to 1960, when Florida State University distance runner Kent Mills took time out from track season to run the 26.2-mile race. Mills placed 26th in the race, his second marathon, running 2:48:39. In addition to being the first Tallahassee-based athlete at Boston, Mills was probably also the first runner from Florida to finish the storied event.


No doubt more Tallahassee athletes will be tracing the path of Kent Mills in Boston on Patriots Day 2023. In the meantime, here are the Tallahassee finishers of the 2022 Boston Marathon.

Tallahassee finishers in the 2022 Boston Marathon, 18 April 2022
Place	Time	Athlete	Sex	Age Group	Net Time	Pace/Mile
2164	2:56:47	Michael Niezgoda	M	18-39	2:55:07	6:41
6394	3:16:23	Jon Maner	M	45-49	3:14:57	7:27
7180	3:21:04	Jack McDermott	M	50-54	3:17:58	7:33
8492	3:23:02	Claire Berryman	F	18-39	3:22:51	7:45
8903	3:28:26	Fanxiu Zhu	M	50-54	3:24:22	7:48
11121	3:35:48	Alyssa Terry	F	18-39	3:32:31	8:07
11887	3:37:01	Jenny Early	F	18-39	3:35:21	8:13
12414	3:37:41	Jamila Allen	F	18-39	3:37:36	8:18
15602	3:56:10	Deanna McVay	F	18-39	3:50:38	8:48
16550	3:56:55	Jillian Heddaeus	F	18-39	3:55:15	8:59
17024	3:58:33	David Plack	M	50-54	3:57:48	9:05
17040	4:01:44	Samantha Fillmore	F	45-49	3:57:53	9:05
18625	4:10:55	Judy Alexander	F	60-64	4:08:38	9:29
20525	4:33:12	Birgit Maier-Katkin	F	55-59	4:25:16	10:07
22452	4:52:17	Richard Bergstrom	M	45-49	4:49:49	11:04
23016	5:06:49	Christopher Turner	M	40-44	5:00:12	11:27

Links

• Tallahassee finishers at the 2022 Boston Marathon (spreadsheet)
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTJzkYeNWhaLlwglXeCBsUmny0beSm2Qgf4rD3jw2fq8XNg2KjPrdoohw7L6tCmC5_GSjRETRW4rZJp/pubhtml
  
  
• “Tallahassee's top finishers at the Boston Marathon during the 21st century (2000-2018)”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2018/04/baa-marathon-2018.html
  
  
• 2016 story, “2016 Boston Marathon finishers from the Trouble Afoot! region”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/04/baa-marathon-2016.html
  
  
• 2015 story, “The athletes of Apalachee at the 2015 Boston Marathon”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/04/baa-marathon-2015.html
  
  
• 2013 story, “Tallahassee runs for Boston”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2013/04/boston-strong-2013.html
  
  
• 2010 story, “The pilgrimage from Hopkinton”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2010/04/pilgrimage-from-hopkinton.html
  
  
• “Kent Mills was Florida State's Marathon Man at Boston in 1960”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2020/04/kent-mills-marathon.html
  
  
• Find marathons and shorter races closer to Tallahassee on the Trouble Afoot! racing calendar
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

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