2025 - Gainesville's Thanksgiving Day Cops & Gobblers 5K
2025 distances
Running
5K (Includes Finisher Medal/No Shirt)
Participants in this event will NOT receive a race shirt, but they WILL receive a finisher medal. Those who qualify WILL BE eligible to receive overall or age group awards.
Fun Run With Finisher Medal Only (No Shirt)
Participants in this event will NOT receive a race shirt, but they WILL receive a finisher medal.
5K Run/Walk
Kids Fun Run
Kids Run doing one loop around the Downtown Square
Virtual 5K
No Shirt & No Medal 5K
Can't make it to the race? Participate wherever your travels take you and support a great cause! Choose whether to pick up your shirt/medal before the race or have it shipped to you.
Friends of the 5K Sponsor
Volunteers
Race-day weather
Conditions on November 27, 2025 — historical Open-Meteo data.
The sun rises at 7:20 AM and sets at 5:26 PM local time (EST) in Gainesville on November 27, 2025 — 10h 06m of daylight.
Course
No course map published yet.
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2025 results — Gainesville's Thanksgiving Day Cops & Gobblers 5K
599 finishers across 2 distances · leading places in the 5K Run/Walk
| Place | Name | Time | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zach Syler | 18:06 | 5:50 /mi |
| 2 | Anonymous Anonymous | 19:00 | 6:08 /mi |
| 3 | Juan Fernando Martinez | 19:09 | 6:10 /mi |
| 4 | Neil Stanford | 19:16 | 6:13 /mi |
| 5 | Aaron Garcia | 19:20 | 6:14 /mi |
Every finisher is on the results page, filterable by distance, gender and age group.
Other races near Gainesville
Different organizers, within 40 miles, in the next three months
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Superhero for Special Olympics 5K
Charity Ball Chase 5K
Gainesville Turkey Trot 5K/10K/Half Marathon and Youth Fun Run presented by Limestone Shirt Factory
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- Gainesville 5K Races 19 races
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Where this page comes from. Race details were last updated on . We re-check listings regularly and again in the week before race day.
- Entries, prices, waves and inclusions — the event's official registration page
- Temperature and humidity — Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
- Elevation and terrain relief — Copernicus DEM GLO-90, ESA (CC BY 4.0)
- Comparisons and counts — Race Discovery calendar, 24 Gainesville events
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