San Francisco Half Marathon 2022: Setser dominates the M20-24 field

• Jack Setser wins in 1:11:55 (5:29/mi), a full 3 minutes ahead of 2nd place — the clearest margin at the top of the M20-24 field.
• William Makinen (2nd, 1:14:55) and Gage Hornung (3rd, 1:15:13) were separated by just 18 seconds, with Hornung posting the 6th-fastest split in the field on the 2.95M–5M stretch to close the gap.
• Victor Yu (4th, 1:21:01) and Tiger Lu (5th, 1:21:25) ran nearly the same race — 24 seconds apart at the finish — with Lu holding the 26th-fastest split on 2.95M–5M to Yu's 27th.
• The top 20 spanned from 1:11:55 to 1:36:09, with 140 men finishing across the M20-24 field.

Jack Setser, 22, from Alamo, CO, made this look like a different race from everyone else's. His 5:29/mi pace held up across the full 13.1 miles through San Francisco's fog and hills, and his 5M–10.9M split was the 3rd-fastest in the men's field on that stretch — a segment where many runners begin to feel the course. He moved from 5th to 3rd among men between miles 5 and 10.9, then up to 3rd overall among men by the finish, all while building a 3-minute cushion over his nearest M20-24 rival.

Behind him, Makinen and Hornung ran a tight battle for the podium. Makinen (5:43/mi) held steady in the men's field throughout, ranking 12th among men on the 5M–10.9M segment. Hornung, meanwhile, made his move earlier: his 6th-fastest men's split on the 2.95M–5M stretch helped him climb from 16th to 12th in the men's standings during that stretch, and he ultimately held on for 3rd in M20-24 at 1:15:13.

Fourth and fifth played out as a close two-man contest of their own. Victor Yu (6:11/mi) and Tiger Lu (6:13/mi) ran virtually in lockstep — Lu actually posted a fractionally faster 2.95M–5M split (26th vs. Yu's 27th in the men's field) — but Yu's earlier pace advantage proved just enough, with 24 seconds separating them at the line. Chris Lee, the youngest finisher in the top ten at 20 years old and a local San Francisco runner, crossed 6th in 1:24:43 to round out a top six that covered the full geographic spread of this field, from Colorado to Connecticut to the Bay Area's own streets.