Don Janicki (born April 23, 1960) is an American long-distance runner.
[3] He later competed for the Arizona Wildcats and earn All-American honors in 1980 and 1981 in cross country.
[5] The 1989 year took him to Minneapolis and St. Paul for the Twin Cities Marathon, which he won in a time of 2:12:18, earning him $25,000.
[7] Janicki's PR of 2:11:16 put him in seventh, four minutes behind British runner Steve Jones, who was hoping to set a second consecutive world record that morning.
While Jones did take the win in 2:07:13, a minute faster than his previous world record the year before, it wasn't fast enough to beat Carlos Lopes's 2:07:12 set in April 1985.