2025 Marquette Marathon Comes to a Close – Northern Michigan University Athletics

MARQUETTE, Mich. – The 2025 Marquette Marathon, powered by NMU, has come to its conclusion. Today saw over 1,200 runners take advantage of the perfect Upper Peninsula weather, including 460 racers for the marathon, 596 in the half marathon, 15 teams of three in the marathon relay, and 105 in the Wildcat 5K.  One of the fastest marathons in the country, the Marquette Marathon qualified 116 racers for the Boston Marathon, broken into 57 men and 59 women. The complete results from every race can be found here . Winning the 2025 Marquette Marathon and earning one of those BQ’s was Jesse Greenhagen (M30-39, Mount Pleasant, Mich.), with a time of 2:34:59.2, just around five and a half minutes quicker than the next racer. Greenhagen was in second place through the 17.7 mile marker before leapfrogging Samuel Parlette (M30-39, White Lake, Mich.) at the 21 mile mark, and Greenhagen would eventually cross the line as the overall top finisher. Grace Hayward (F20-29, Weston, MA) paced the female field, finishing as the first overall female with her time of 2:55:38.8. Similar to the men, Grace was behind Olivia Hayward (F20-29, Weston, MA) until the 17.7 mile marker, before Grace and Olivia swapped
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