CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Blowing away a record-breaking field of 746 runners, 30-year-old Evan Graves from Caribou won the 30th Annual Sugarloaf Marathon on Sunday in 2 hours, 33 minutes and 6 seconds. Meredith Freimer, 33, from Portland took home the women’s title with a time of 3:07:59.
Graves finished nearly 10 minutes ahead of his closest competitor, 43-year-old Robert Ashby of Brunswick, who clocked a time of 2:43:00.5.
Freimer finished nearly five minutes ahead of the second-place women’s finisher, 30 year-old Sarah Anderson of Newtonville, Mass., who finished in 3:12:53.1.
This year’s event featured the largest field of runners in the 30-year history of the marathon, with a total of 1,331 runners between the marathon and the Sugarloaf 15, which is held simultaneously. The race field included runners from 31 different states and four countries — the United State, Canada, France and Greenland.
In the 15k, 34-year-old Judson Cake, from Bar Harbor, crossed the line in first place for men in a blistering time of 47 minutes and 47 seconds, while 39 year-old Cote Marie-Caro from Montreal, Quebec, emerged as the women’s champion with a time of 59:20.2.
Both races provided memorable moments, including 62-year-old Robert Bishton of Fort Meyers Beach, Fla., completing his 223rd marathon in his trademark cowboy hat. Bishton has run all 223 of his marathons in the past seven and a half years.
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