Antoni Niemczak of Poland took the lead...

Antoni Niemczak of Poland took the lead with less than two miles to run and won the San Francisco Marathon in record time.

Niemczak, the Los Angeles Marathon runner-up, overtook Andres Espinoza of Mexico at the 25-mile mark and outran him to the wire, finishing in 2 hours 13 minutes 48 seconds. The former men’s course record was 2:15:01.

The race’s defending champion, Ernest Tjela, was prohibited from running this year because he participated in a race in Johannesburg, South Africa, last month.

Janis Klecker of Minnetonka, Minn., won the women’s competition in 2:39:51. David Corelson of Huntington Beach won the wheelchair division in 2:20:09.