Rotary Club of Westerville Independence Day 5K
About this race
Celebrate America's 250th Birthday and get your July 4th holiday moving with the Rotary Club of Westerville’s Independence Day 5K at 8 AM Saturday, July 4!
As it has since 2021, the 5K will take place at the Westerville Sports Complex, 325 N. Cleveland Ave. The race at the Sports Complex begins our day-long celebration of the Fourth, with our other dawn-to-dusk events including the big State Street Parade (10:30 AM), Free Concert and Food Truck Festival (5-10 PM) and Patriotic Fireworks Display (10 PM). Proceeds of the race will benefit local veterans and first responders organizations. An Honor Guard presentation will start the event at 7:30 AM. Our traditional Kids Fun Run sprints will take place at 7:45 AM -- a change to BEFORE the 5K from past years. The Race course travels on paved multipurpose trails through the Sports Complex property, under Cleveland Avenue, along the Westerville Community Center property, down to Heritage Park, and back to the finish/start line at the Sports Complex, adjacent to the new Veterans Memorial Plaza. Participants in the 5K receive an event T-shirt, race medal and other goodies. Kids Fun Run participants receive a medal. The event is pre-registration only.
Packet pickup will be from noon-6 p.m. the two days prior to the race, July 2 and July 3, at the Polaris Fleet Feet store, 1270 E. Powell Rd. There will be NO Race-Day Registration.
The race at the Sports Complex begins our day-long celebration of the Fourth, with our other dawn-to-dusk events, including:
Honor Guard Presentation (7:30 a.m.)
Kids Fun Run Sprints (7:45 a.m.)
The big State Street Parade (10:30 a.m.)
Free Concert and Food Truck Festival (5-10 p.m.)
Patriotic Fireworks Display (10 p.m.)
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Running
5k Walk/Run
Veterans/Active Duty Military and First Responders 5K
Typical race-day weather
Based on 8 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Westerville, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 6:07 AM and sets at 9:04 PM local time (EDT) in Westerville on July 4, 2026 — 14h 56m of daylight.
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2026 results — Rotary Club of Westerville Independence Day 5K
5k Walk/Run · 397 finishers
| Place | Name | Time | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Willis Guard-Batchelder | 16:11 | 5:13 /mi |
| 2 | Chase Crawford | 17:21 | 5:35 /mi |
| 3 | Isaac Reash | 17:24 | 5:37 /mi |
| 4 | Kelan Wolff | 17:47 | 5:44 /mi |
| 5 | Jude Hoffman | 17:49 | 5:45 /mi |
Every finisher is on the results page, filterable by distance, gender and age group.
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- Temperature and humidity — Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
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