This year's pasta dinner, held at the Boilermaker Expo at Mohawk Valley Community College the day before the race, raised over t$3,000 for the United Way of the Valley and Greater Utica Area.
Ethiopian Teshome Asfaha (photo above) captured the 2016 Boilermaker 15k Road Race with a time of 43:58, finishing nine seconds ahead of Moroccan Mourad Marofit.