JACKSONVILLE – More than 1,700 runners traversed the 13.1 mile course of the Thanksgiving Day Classic Half Marathon race staged Thanksgiving Day in Jacksonville. 1st Place Sports of Jacksonville directed the event that ran off a course near San Jose Blvd. and through Mandarin.

Top area finishers with first place age group wins were Matthew Stratton, 12, Joe Rivera, 50, and Randy Arend, 56.

Overall winner was Fredison Costa, 39, of Kissimmee, a frequent Jacksonville racer, who won in one hour, eight minutes, 37 seconds after a nip and tuck battled with Tyler O’Brien, 21, of Jacksonville, who finished second in 1:09:41. Jacksonville triathlete Justin Jacobs, an Orange Park High graduate, took third in 1:10:43.

In the women’s race, Julie Stackhouse, 37, of Jacksonville, a recent women’s winner in the Florida Striders’ Hog Jog 5K cross country race in Van Zant Park, won in more decisive fashion in 1:16:55 with Kelsey Beckmann, 25, of Atlantic Beach, second in 1:19:20 and Stephanie Pezzullo, 34,of Ocala, third in 1:20:04.

Area runners with top age group finishers, for the men, were Matthew Stratton, 12, of Orange Park, and James Wilson, 13, of Fleming Island, who went 1-2 in the Men 11-13 age group. Stratton, a recent state cross country racer for St. Johns Country Day School, won in 1:40:10 with Wilson at 1:58.21.

In the Men 50-54, Rivera won by more than three minutes with his 1:25:51 while, in Men 55-59, Arend outdid Middleburg’s Hank Gibson by three minutes with his winning 1:34:02 time.

In the women’s 11-13 age group, three area runners; Grace Adams, 12; Mackenzie Glenn, 13, and Allie Knotts, 11, all of Fleming Island, all finished 2-3-4 with Adams clocking in at 1:50:21. Addison Adams, 10, finished third in women under 11 in 3:37:58.

In Men 14-19, Fleming Island High’s Aidan Amstutz, 17, took fourth with Orange Park High’s John Bear in 15th at 1:41:28 and St. Johns’ Benjamin Kailes in 17th at 1:44:07.

For the Girls 14-19, Fleming Island’s Hannah Frain, 18, was top area finisher in third in 1:35:45 with cross country aces Libby Coen, 18, of SJCDS, eighth in 1:45:53 with Fleming Island High teammates Rosie Cubbedge, Jennifer Fliess, Kristina Morris and Kendall Mandt in at 25-26-27-28 with Cubbedge at 2:08:16.

Other male age groupers included Michael Molina, 24, of Green Cove Springs, sixth in 1:25:99; in Men 30-34, Ryan Dobbertein, 30, of Orange Park, third in 1:24:44, and Bryan Mullins, 31, of Orange Park, fourth in 1:26:36; in Men 40-44, Tom Hall, 42, of Orange Park, second in 1:15:25; George White, 69, of Orange Park, second in 1:54:00 and Pat Haley, 70, third in 2:16:04.

For women, in 30-34, Sharon Hawley, 30, of Fleming Island, took fourth in 1:35:45; in 40-44, Kami Damrow, 41, of Fleming Island, seventh in 1:48:41; in 55-59, Denise Dailey, 59, of Orange Park, furth in 1:46:50, and, in 65-69, Dee Robertson-Lee, 66, of Fleming Island, third in 2:54:49.