Men's Race: Haileselassi Seizes Command and Never Lets Go

• Yemane Haileselassi won in 46:24 (4:38/mi), pulling clear of a Flagstaff-heavy lead pack to claim the men's title by four seconds over Biya Simbassa.
• The top five were separated by just 19 seconds, with Nadeel Wildschutt (3rd, 46:35), Tsegay Weldlibanos (4th, 46:40), and Joe Klecker (5th, 46:43) all clocking 4:40/mi averages.
• Simbassa closed hardest of anyone in the men's field, posting the fastest men's split from 8.64M to the finish — but the gap to Haileselassi was already set.
• Nathan Martin was the first man outside the elite front pack, finishing 6th in 47:29 — 46 seconds back of Klecker and 25 seconds ahead of 7th-place Amanuel Mesel (47:37).

The men's race at the 2025 Medtronic Twin Cities 10 Mile was a Flagstaff showcase from the gun. Haileselassi, Simbassa, Weldlibanos, and Mesel all call the Arizona altitude hub home, and they ran like it — occupying four of the top seven spots. But it was Haileselassi who dictated terms earliest, moving from 3rd at the first checkpoint to the lead by 5K and never relinquishing it. His decisive move came through the 5K–5.5M segment, where he posted the fastest men's split on that stretch, building the cushion that would hold through the finish.

Simbassa was the race's most compelling chaser. He sat patiently in 2nd from the 5K mark onward, and his 8.64M-to-finish split was the fastest in the men's field on that closing stretch — a genuine surge that trimmed the margin but couldn't erase it. The four-second gap at the line (46:24 to 46:28) tells the story of a race won in the middle miles, not lost at the end.

South Africa's Nadeel Wildschutt was the one outsider who crashed the Flagstaff party at the front, running 3rd in 46:35 and posting the 3rd-fastest men's split through the 5K–5.5M segment. Weldlibanos (4th, 46:40) was sharpest through the 5.5M–7.76M segment with the 2nd-fastest men's split there, while Klecker (5th, 46:43) was right on his heels with the 3rd-fastest on that same stretch — a genuine mid-race duel for position that neither man could fully resolve until the finish line settled it. In a men's field of 3,576, those five carved out a race within the race that the rest of the morning belonged entirely to them.