The 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Marathon was held on Saturday, February 29, 2020, in Atlanta, Georgia, to determine the American athletes who would compete in the marathon event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The race was hosted by the city of Atlanta, in partnership with Atlanta Track Club, USA Track & Field, and the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. Field sizes were historically large for the event, with 260 men and 512 women qualifying to compete. On the women's side, the top three finishers were Aliphine Tuliamuk, Molly Seidel, and Sally Kipyego. For the men, Galen Rupp defended his victory from the 2016 Trials, while Jake Riley and Abdi Abdirahman finished second and third, respectively. Despite the 2020 Olympics being postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all six qualified athletes from the Trials competed in the Olympic Marathon, which took place in Sapporo, Japan, in August 2021.

Qualification

Entry standards for acceptance in the race were as follows:

Men's Marathon: 2:19:00

Men's Half Marathon: 1:04:00

Women's Marathon 2:45:00

Women's Half Marathon: 1:13:00

Qualifying performances must have occurred between September 1, 2017 and January 19, 2020 on a USATF-certified course. In total 233 men qualified via a marathon time, while 27 gained entry with a half marathon time. For women, 500 achieved the marathon standard and only 12 hit the half marathon mark.https://www.usatf.org/events/2020/2020-u-s-olympic-team-trials-marathon/qualifying-standards Large field sizes, particularly for the women, prompted USATF to tighten entry standards for the 2024 United States Olympic trials (marathon).https://www.usatf.org/events/2024/2024-u-s-olympic-team-trials-%E2%80%94-marathon/2024-u-s-olympic-team-trials-marathon-qualificatio

Course

Runners started at Centennial Olympic Park and completed three 8-mile loops through downtown Atlanta, followed by a 2.2 mile loop to the south of downtown. The final 800 meters took runners by State Farm Arena and Mercedes-Benz Stadium before the finishing stretch at Centennial Olympic Park. The terrain was hilly, with 1,389 feet of elevation gain. Weather in Atlanta at race time was cool, sunny, and windy, with temperatures in the upper 40s and wind gusts up to 30 mph. The combination of hills and wind contributed to one quarter of the men's field dropping out of the race (175 of 235 finished). Women fared slightly better, with 390 finishers out of 475 starters.

Spectators

Due in part to the large field sizes, nearly 200,000 spectators supported the athletes on the streets of Atlanta. Additionally, the race was broadcast live on NBC and attracted 3.8 million viewers. This figure was over three times higher than viewership for the 2016 Trials in Los Angeles.

Results

+Men's Marathon Place Athlete Time Galen Rupp 2:09:20 Jake Riley 2:10:02 Abdi Abdirahman 2:10:03 4 Leonard Korir 2:10:06 5 Augustus Maiyo 2:10:47 6 Martin Hehir 2:11:29 7 CJ Albertson 2:11:49 8 Jonas Hampton 2:12:10 9 Colin Bennie 2:12:14 10 Matt McDonald 2:12:19 11 Tyler Pennel 2:12:34 12 Scott Fauble 2:12:39 13 Haron Lagat 2:13:04 14 Brendan Gregg 2:13:27 15 Colin Mickow 2:13:45 16 Elkanah Kibet 2:13:52 17 Josh Izewski 2:14:15 18 Bernard Lagat 2:14:23 19 Scott Smith 2:14:49 20 Nico Montanez 2:15:02 21 Sam Chelanga 2:15:04 22 Jim Walmsley 2:15:05 23 Ahmed Osman 2:15:26 24 Enoch Nadler 2:15:30 25 Grant Fischer 2:15:32 26 Connor McMillan 2:15:55 27 Jared Ward 2:15:55 28 Daniel Kremske 2:16:18 29 Ian Butler 2:16:26 30 Timothy Young 2:16:31 31 Ben Payne 2:16:42 32 Mike Sayenko 2:16:47 33 Chris Melgares 2:16:59 34 Andrew Epperson 2:17:00 35 Dylan Marx 2:17:09 36 Malcolm Richards 2:17:13 37 Gregory Billington 2:17:21 38 Matt Llano 2:17:22 39 Kevin Lewis 2:17:36 40 Jon Phillips 2:17:51 41 Craig Leon 2:17:54 42 Will Norris 2:17:57 43 Patrick Campbell 2:18:01 44 Sergio Reyes 2:18:14 45 Craig Hunt 2:18:18 46 Dylan Belles 2:18:18 47 Kyle King 2:18:20 48 Brogan Austin 2:18:36 49 Eric Finan 2:18:54 50 Evan Landes 2:19:08 51 Oscar Medina 2:19:28 52 JJ Santana 2:19:30 53 Tim Ritchie 2:19:34 54 Jonathan Aziz 2:19:35 55 Julian Heninger 2:19:39 56 Joel Reichow 2:20:05 57 Steven Martinez 2:20:10 58 Stephen Vangampleare 2:20:16 59 Caleb Kerr 2:20:21 60 Louis Serafini 2:20:27 61 Charlie Lawrence 2:20:40 62 Jackson Neff 2:20:50 63 Rajpaul Pannu 2:20:55 64 Chase Weaverling 2:20:58 65 Jason Lynch 2:21:03 66 James Atkins 2:21:13 67 Garret Lee 2:21:14 68 Will Cross 2:21:16 69 Nathan Martin 2:21:26 70 Swarnjit Boyal 2:21:29 71 Nathan Kwan 2:21:38 72 Evan Gaynor 2:21:46 73 Bijan Mazaheri 2:21:54 74 Austin Bogina 2:21:57 75 Jacob Law 2:22:11 76 Charlie Hurt 2:22:17 77 Daniel Carney 2:22:22 78 Alan Peterson 2:22:30 79 Stewart Harwell 2:22:30 80 Josh Baden 2:22:36 81 Nick Golebiowski 2:22:47 82 Tyler Andrews 2:22:51 83 Jon Mott 2:22:54 84 Nick Caprario 2:22:59 85 Tim Chichester 2:23:19 86 Kieran O' Connor 2:23:57 87 Tyler McCandless 2:24:04 88 Daniel Docherty 2:24:07 89 Kurt Roeser 2:24:08 90 John Dewitt 2:24:09 91 Stan Linton 2:24:10 92 Anthony Costales 2:24:21 93 Travis Morrison 2:24:24 94 Ryan Root 2:24:24 95 Henry Sterling 2:24:40 96 Daniel Meteer 2:24:45 97 Reed Fischer 2:24:48 98 Zach Beavin 2:24:52 99 Turner Wiley 2:24:54 100 Dan Vassallo 2:24:59 101 Kyle Wyatt 2:25:04 102 Anthony Tomsich 2:25:14 103 Ben Fletcher 2:25:17 104 James Quattlebaum 2:25:18 105 Alex Taylor 2:25:19 106 Kevin Colon 2:25:21 107 Joe Stilin 2:25:24 108 Matt Rand 2:25:42 109 Chris Boyle 2:25:49 110 Mark Messmer 2:25:53 111 Alex Monroe 2:25:57 112 Brandon Mull 2:25:57 113 Jordan Kyle 2:25:59 114 Nate Orndorf 2:26:09 115 Ryan Smith 2:26:14 116 Brian Harvey 2:26:37 117 Matt Blume 2:26:38 118 Jeff Seelaus 2:26:40 119 Duriel Hardy 2:26:41 120 Matt Lenehan 2:26:47 121 Andrew Williams 2:26:56 122 Gregory Leak 2:27:35 123 Joe Niemiec 2:27:50 124 Alec Baldwin 2:28:03 125 Dan Harper 2:28:10 126 Brett Lustgarten 2:28:21 127 Tyson Miehe 2:28:24 128 Rory Tunningley 2:28:29 129 Steven Underwood 2:28:34 130 Matt Herzig 2:28:48 131 Jason Simpson 2:28:51 132 Max Storms 2:28:57 133 Jacob Andrews 2:29:13 134 Matt Welch 2:29:18 135 Brendan Martin 2:29:34 136 Clayton Young 2:29:46 137 Dave Marks 2:30:03 138 Nick Edinger 2:30:08 139 David Fuentes 2:30:11 140 Patrick Reaves 2:30:25 141 Charles Remillard 2:30:27 142 Quinlan Moll 2:30:29 143 Chris Burnett 2:30:54 144 Robert Murphy 2:30:58 145 Adam Dalton 2:31:18 146 Chris May 2:31:34 147 Everett Hackett 2:30:36 148 Aaron Dinzeo 2:31:55 149 Johnny Rutford 2:31:57 150 Patrick Geoghegan 2:32:00

+Women's Marathon Place Athlete Time Aliphine Tuliamuk 2:27:23 Molly Seidel 2:27:31 Sally Kipyego 2:28:52 4 Des Linden 2:29:03 5 Laura Thweatt 2:29:08 6 Stephanie Bruce 2:29:11 7 Emma Bates 2:29:35 8 Kellyn Taylor 2:29:55 9 Nell Rojas 2:30:26 10 Julia Kohnen 2:30:43 11 Sarah Sellers 2:31:48 12 Lindsay Flanagan 2:32:05 13 Brittany Charboneau 2:33:14 14 Kate Landau 2:34:07 15 Keira D'Amato 2:34:24 16 Rebecca Wade 2:35:12 17 Jennifer Bergman 2:36:11 18 Bethany Sachtleben 2:36:34 19 Jaci Smith 2:36:34 20 Carrie Dimoff 2:36:41 21 Kelsey Bruce 2:36:51 22 Kaitlyn Peale 2:37:12 23 Christina Vergara Aleshire 2:37:20 24 Lauren Weaver 2:37:48 25 Molly Grabill 2:37:57 26 Jordan Hasay 2:37:57 27 Bria Wetsch 2:37:58 28 Georgia Porter 2:38:07 29 Taylor Ward 2:38:11 30 McKale Montgomery 2:38:20 31 Gina Rouse 2:38:41 32 Kristen Findley 2:38:59 33 Samantha Bluske 2:38:59 34 Autumn Ray 2:39:05 35 Annmarie Tuxbury 2:39:05 36 Dakotah Lindwurm 2:39:08 37 Missy Rock 2:39:12 38 Lindsey Anderson 2:39:17 39 Stephanie Pezzullo 2:39:19 40 Whitney Macon 2:39:40 41 Heather Lieberg 2:39:47 42 Emma Huston 2:39:57 43 Danna Herrick 2:39:59 44 Ashley Paulson 2:40:07 45 Amanda Marino 2:40:09 46 Tara Welling 2:40:10 47 Mara Olson 2:40:16 48 Sharon Thompson 2:40:24 49 Cristina McKnight 2:40:29 50 Meghan Bishop 2:40:43 51 Mary Schneider 2:41:08 52 Tristin Van Ord 2:41:14 53 Rena Elmer 2:41:22 54 Courtney Olsen 2:41:36 55 Marit Sonnesyn 2:41:37 56 Emma Spencer 2:41:40 57 Katie Kellner 2:41:42 58 Mackenzie Caldwell 2:41:54 59 Rachel Drake 2:41:58 60 Laurie Knowles 2:41:58 61 Hannah Cocchiaro 2:42:02 62 Kimi Reed 2:42:04 63 Veronica Graziano 2:42:06 64 Jessie Vickers 2:42:09 65 Natalie Severy 2:42:09 66 Bailey Drewes 2:42:11 67 Sarah Reiter 2:42:12 68 Caitlin Phillips 2:42:16 69 Allie Schaich 2:42:22 70 Mia Behm 2:42:26 71 Sophie Seward 2:42:26 72 Carrie Mack 2:42:27 73 Elizabeth Northern 2:42:32 74 Alyssa Schneider 2:42:41 75 Jennifer Masamitzu 2:42:44 76 Tierney Wolfgram 2:42:47 77 Theresa Hailey 2:42:49 78 Peyton Thomas 2:42:54 79 Kristen Heckert 2:42:55 80 Annie Dear 2:42:55 81 Lindsay Nelson 2:42:56 82 Bonnie Keating 2:43:01 83 Holly Clarke 2:43:08 84 Jessa Victor 2:43:12 85 Elizabeth Gregory 2:43:15 86 Liza Reichert 2:43:18 87 Hannah Christensen 2:43:19 88 Alexandra Bernardi 2:43:22 89 Heidi Caldwell 2:43:23 90 Andrea Masterson 2:43:24 91 Sara Mostatabi 2:43:28 92 Christina Murphy 2:43:31 93 Michelle Parks 2:43:31 94 Amanda Nurse 2:43:35 95 Gracie Griffith 2:43:36 96 Dot McMahan 2:43:39 97 Harriott Kelly 2:43:40 98 Obsie Birru 2:43:44 99 Amy Schnittger 2:43:47 100 Fionna Fallon 2:43:50 101 Margaret Vido 2:43:50 102 Joanna Reyes 2:43:51 103 Olivia Ballew 2:43:53 104 Gabi Anzelone 2:43:59 105 Tavyn Lovitt 2:44:02 106 Meghan Curran 2:44:02 107 Kim Maloney 2:44:04 108 Maura Linde 2:44:13 109 Sarah Cummings 2:44:14 110 Kate Sanborn 2:44:18 111 Lindsay Carrick 2:44:22 112 Phebe Ko 2:44:23 113 Anne Flower 2:44:24 114 Paula Pridgen 2:44:25 115 Ashlee Powers 2:44:29 116 Cindy Anderson 2:44:33 117 Camille Matonis 2:44:34 118 Caroline Austin 2:44:45 119 Natalie Gingerich Mackenzie 2:44:54 120 Ann Kirkpatrick 2:44:59 121 Ellie Pell 2:44:59 122 Alexis Zeis 2:45:04 123 Christine Ramsey 2:45:04 124 Maria Scavuzzo 2:45:10 125 Michelle Langan 2:45:12 126 Jenelle Deatherage 2:45:15 127 Andrea Imhof 2:45:18 128 Caitlin Chrisman 2:45:18 129 Alyssa Bloomquist 2:45:20 130 Teal Burrell 2:45:27 131 Madeline Duhon 2:45:27 132 Kelly Griffin 2:45:33 133 Meagan Boucher 2:45:35 134 Elizabeth Bigelow 2:45:39 135 Stephanie Knast 2:45:42 136 Meriah Earle 2:45:46 137 Brittney Feivor 2:45:46 138 Jessica Chichester 2:45:49 139 Ashley Brasovan 2:46:00 140 Moira O'Connor Lenth 2:46:08 141 Ladia Albertson-Junkins 2:46:08 142 Sakiko Minagawa 2:46:15 143 Andrea Pomaranski 2:46:15 144 Erin Heenan 2:46:28 145 Eva Vail 2:46:28 146 Megan Gentes 2:46:29 147 Ann Alyanak 2:46:32 148 Caitlin Standifer 2:46:36 149 Siobhan O' Connor 2:46:38 150 Susanna Sullivan 2:46:39

The above charts display only the top 150 finishers. For full results and profiles on all participants, see the external links at the bottom of this article.

References

External links Official Results Athlete Profiles