The nineteenth annual DONNA Marathon Weekend concluded Sunday with greater than 9,700 runners registered in occasions throughout the First Coast. Athletes from all 50 states and 11 international locations laced up for a number of aggressive race occasions, which happened January 31 by means of February 1.
Celebrating survivorship, remembrance and the hope that comes with selecting love over worry, individuals raised practically $250,000 in assist of The DONNA Basis’s essential packages, surpassing the group’s objective. Fundraising will proceed by means of February 28. Proceeds from DONNA Marathon Weekend present hope, assist and monetary reduction to these dwelling with breast most cancers, each native to Jacksonville and throughout the nation.
The 26.2 with DONNA The Nationwide Marathon to End Breast Most cancers™ is the one marathon within the nation devoted to serving these dwelling with breast most cancers. This 12 months’s marathon Sunday, which took runners by means of a double-loop course throughout the Jacksonville Seashores, noticed each repeat and new champions, and set a brand new course document for the ladies’s half marathon in its nineteenth working, together with:
- Males’s Extremely 110 Marathon Winner is Marc Burget of Jacksonville, FL, 16:23:27*
- Girls’s Adaptive Extremely 110 Marathon Winner is Heather Cohen of Saint Cloud, FL, 27:43:18**
- Males’s Marathon Winner is Matthew Nelson of Ponte Vedra Seashore, FL, 2:41:31
- Girls’s Marathon Winner is Sarah Nelson of Chicago, IL, 3:01:15
- Males’s Half Marathon Winner is Sem Sultanov of Jacksonville, FL, 1:08:23*
- Girls’s Half Marathon Winner is Liina Winborn of Odessa, FL, 1:16:36**
- Survivor Marathon Winner is Gia Didonato Sroczenski of Webster, MA, 3:57:20
- Girls’s Survivor Half Marathon Winner is Dee Smith of Atlantic Seashore, FL, 1:52:12
- Males’s GoRuck Marathon Winner is Christopher Schneider of Ponte Vedra Seashore, FL, 4:33:16
- Males’s GoRuck Half Marathon Winner is Jim Carroll of Ponte Vedra, FL, 2:05:44
- Girls’s GoRuck Half Marathon Winner is Natalie LeClair of Ponte Vedra Seashore, FL, 1:43:06
This 12 months’s DONNA Marathon Weekend was a record-breaking occasion, and never simply due to the historic temperatures. New data have been set, together with Liina Winborn’s spectacular one hour and sixteen minute end within the ladies’s half marathon, shattering a course document that had stood since 2011. Additional highlighting the distinctive performances of this 12 months’s athletes, Heather Cohen’s completion of the Extremely 110 Marathon earned her a triple victory because the Girls’s 110 Champion, the Adaptive 110 Champion, and the Marathon Adaptive Champion. These outstanding achievements reveal the indomitable spirit of individuals on this weekend’s signature occasions, reflecting the shared dedication to complete line victories each on the course and within the combat to complete breast most cancers.
“Marathon Sunday examined all of us. It was unusually chilly, uncomfortable, and laborious in methods Florida runners not often expertise,” mentioned Amanda Napolitano, Government Director of The DONNA Basis. “Greater than 9,700 athletes registered to take part in DONNA Marathon Weekend, and regardless of the acute chilly, the dedication and coronary heart proven throughout our race programs was extraordinary. That’s what makes this neighborhood so particular. When individuals take part for a function past themselves, they discover energy they didn’t know that they had. This weekend was a gorgeous reminder that hope grows when individuals come collectively, and that love over worry is greater than a phrase right here –– it’s one thing you possibly can see, really feel, and witness at each mile.”
DONNA Marathon Weekend’s races, together with the FIS DONNA 5K, DONNA Sprint, extremely marathon, half marathon, marathon and the second working of the Pete’s Bar DONNA Crawl, happened within the stunning Jacksonville seashores this 12 months, a few of which prolonged by means of Jacksonville, Neptune and Atlantic Seashores. The 2026 FIS DONNA 5K began and completed on the Seawalk Pavilion on Saturday, Jan. 31. Winners are as follows:
- Males’s 5K Winner is Beau Beaudreau of Ponte Vedra Seashore, FL, 15:44
- Girls’s 5K Winner is Adrianna Ducharme of Yulee, FL, 18:00
- General 5K Girls’s Survivor Winner is Andrea Sharp of Jacksonville Seashore, FL, 23:10
- General 5K Males’s Survivor Winner is Michael Singer of Cuddebackville, NY, 1:06:16
The winners for the 2026 Masters Divisions and Booby Entice Problem are:
- Masters Males’s Marathon Winner is Chris Wooden of Lake Winnebago, MO, 2:58:24
- Masters Girls’s Marathon Winner is Jolene Younger of Jacksonville Seashore, FL, 3:10:39
- Masters Males’s Half Marathon Winner is Jeff Wight of Atlantic Seashore, FL, 1:23:31
- Masters Girls’s Half Marathon Winner is Meghann Featherstun of Kent, OH, 1:26:02
- Booby Entice Problem Males’s Marathon Winner is Corbin Scofield of Auburn, AL, 3:19:33
- Booby Entice Problem Girls’s Marathon Winner is Kaseleigh McCarley of Frisco, TX, 3:30:50.2
- Booby Entice Problem Males’s Half Marathon Winner is Jason Swan of Williamstown, NJ, 1:53:18.3
- Booby Entice Problem Girls’s Half Marathon Winner is Sienna King of Jacksonville, FL, 1:55:22.8
“DONNA Marathon Weekend has at all times mirrored the easiest of Jacksonville,” mentioned Donna Deegan, Mayor of Jacksonville and founding father of The DONNA Basis. “This 12 months, in notably difficult climate, our neighborhood confirmed what it means to look after each other. You noticed neighbors cheering for strangers, volunteers serving with full hearts, and survivors surrounded by love and encouragement. That’s the magic of this weekend. It reminds us that when a neighborhood rallies round hope, it creates energy far past the race course.”
95 individuals logged 15,641 miles over the course of 4 months as a part of The DONNA Basis’s fourth annual 110-Mile-A-Day Problem and digital occasions. The problem inspired households and people to collectively stroll one mile per day whereas specializing in dwelling a wholesome, fearless and sustainable life. Miles have been logged from October 1, 2025 to February 1, 2026.
DONNA Marathon Weekend will rejoice its twentieth anniversary in 2027, with races deliberate for February 5 by means of 7. Keep related with The DONNA Basis for extra info at
* Signifies repeat champion, ** signifies a brand new course document.
About The DONNA Basis:
The DONNA Basis was established in June of 2003 by three-time breast most cancers survivor, award-winning journalist and Mayor of the Metropolis of Jacksonville Donna Deegan to fulfill the essential monetary wants of the underserved dwelling with breast most cancers. Our mission is to supply hope, assist, and monetary reduction to these dwelling with breast most cancers, making a world the place breast most cancers sufferers are free of any boundaries to their profitable remedy. Over the past 20 years, The DONNA Basis has served greater than 20,000 households, securing greater than $6.5 million in monetary providers and debt reduction. The group has additionally disbursed greater than $3.3 million in assist of translational genomics and immune research. The group additionally operates occasions and packages for survivorship, schooling and consciousness. For extra info, go to TheDONNAFoundation.org.
