CASCADE LOCKS — Portland’s Justin Rinauro won the 2025 Bridge of the Gods Half Marathon on Aug. 3 in Cascade Locks.
Rinauro averaged six-minute, 13-second miles and won the race by a two-minute margin in one hour, 21 minutes, 28 seconds. Rinauro also won the 2019 race (1:19.22). Nicholas Fisher was second last week in 1:23.39. Alyssa Johnson was the top female finisher, placing eighth overall in 1:32.49. Johnson, from Elmira outside of Eugene, recently completed her sophomore season of track and field at Southern Oregon University in Ashland.
There were 1,039 finishers in the half marathon — 702 women and 337 men.
The weekend event also included a 10-kilometer race on Aug. 3, and a twilight, 5-kilometer race on Aug. 2. Waylon Stoneburg-Schafer, a high school sophomore to be at Cle Elum High School in Washington, won the 10K race in 37 minutes, 18 seconds. He took over the lead late from Cal O’Donnell, who finished second in 37:22. In third place in the 10K race was Hood River’s Brayden Strong, who competed at the 2025 Oregon Scholastic Activities Association state meet this past spring for Horizon Christian School. Strong outkicked O’Donnell to win the 5K run the night before — 16:36 to 16:41. There were 333 finishers in the 5K race.
The fastest female finisher in the 10K was Abby Knight, who was 13th overall in 45:18 out of 577 finishers. Ashley Figel of Corbett was the fastest female runner in the 5K race, finishing third overall in 17:34.
Figel is an accomplished ultra runner, having won the women’s division of the past two Oxbow Trail Runs (10K) in Gresham, including finishing second overall in this year’s Oxbow race on April 27. That came two weeks after she was the fourth female finisher in the Gorge Waterfalls 50K. Last fall, Figel set the women’s course record in the Angel’s Rest 50K.
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