With the last major marathon of 2015 completed Sunday, it’s time to look ahead to the next big 26.2-mile race — the Olympic trials on Feb. 13 in Los Angeles.
The top three men’s and women’s finishers will be the first members of the 2016 U.S. Olympic track and field team. Here’s a look at the fastest American marathoners going into the race:
Men with sub-2:12 marathons since Jan. 1, 2014
Meb Keflezighi — 2:08:37 (Boston 2014)
Luke Puskedra — 2:10:24 (Chicago 2015)
Jeffrey Eggleston — 2:10:52 (Gold Coast 2014)
Ryan Vail — 2:10:57 (London 2014)
Dathan Ritzenhein — 2:11:20 (Boston 2015)
Bobby Curtis — 2:11:20 (Chicago 2014)
Elkanah Kibet — 2:11:31 (Chicago 2015)
Fernando Cabada — 2:11:36 (Berlin 2014)
Nick Arciniaga — 2:11:47 (Boston 2014)
In 2012, the prohibitive trials favorites were Ryan Hall and Keflezighi, who both went sub-2:10 in both 2010 and 2011 and were the only Americans to do so those years.