diff --git a/src/benchmarks/real-world/Akade.IndexedSet.Benchmarks/Program.cs b/src/benchmarks/real-world/Akade.IndexedSet.Benchmarks/Program.cs
index d0a1244468f..9c8cb8f3b7a 100644
--- a/src/benchmarks/real-world/Akade.IndexedSet.Benchmarks/Program.cs
+++ b/src/benchmarks/real-world/Akade.IndexedSet.Benchmarks/Program.cs
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 using BenchmarkDotNet.Running;
 using System.Collections.Immutable;
 
-BenchmarkSwitcher.FromAssembly(typeof(Program).Assembly).Run(args, RecommendedConfig.Create(
+// Use RunAsync (not Run) so BDN does not install its single-threaded
+// BenchmarkDotNetSynchronizationContext on the entrypoint thread.
+var summaries = await BenchmarkSwitcher.FromAssembly(typeof(Program).Assembly).RunAsync(args, RecommendedConfig.Create(
                     artifactsPath: new DirectoryInfo(Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(typeof(Program).Assembly.Location)!, "BenchmarkDotNet.Artifacts")),
-                    mandatoryCategories: ImmutableHashSet.Create(Categories.AkadeIndexedSet)));
\ No newline at end of file
+                    mandatoryCategories: ImmutableHashSet.Create(Categories.AkadeIndexedSet)))
+    .ConfigureAwait(false);
+return summaries.ToExitCode();
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/benchmarks/real-world/ILLink/Program.cs b/src/benchmarks/real-world/ILLink/Program.cs
index d57eb05a15a..3147069face 100644
--- a/src/benchmarks/real-world/ILLink/Program.cs
+++ b/src/benchmarks/real-world/ILLink/Program.cs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 using System.Collections.Immutable;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Reflection;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using BenchmarkDotNet.Engines;
 using BenchmarkDotNet.Extensions;
 using BenchmarkDotNet.Jobs;
@@ -13,7 +14,9 @@ namespace ILLinkBenchmarks;
 
 public class ILLinkBench
 {
-    public static int Main(string[] args)
+    // Use RunAsync (not Run) so BDN does not install its single-threaded
+    // BenchmarkDotNetSynchronizationContext on the entrypoint thread.
+    public static async Task<int> Main(string[] args)
     {
         string thisAssembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;
         string sampleProjectFile = Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(thisAssembly), "SampleProject", "HelloWorld.csproj");
@@ -29,13 +32,14 @@ public static int Main(string[] args)
             .WithStrategy(RunStrategy.Monitoring)
             .WithMaxRelativeError(0.01);
 
-        return BenchmarkSwitcher
+        var summaries = await BenchmarkSwitcher
             .FromAssembly(typeof(BasicBenchmark).Assembly)
-            .Run(args, RecommendedConfig.Create(
+            .RunAsync(args, RecommendedConfig.Create(
                            artifactsPath: new DirectoryInfo(Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(typeof(BasicBenchmark).Assembly.Location),
                                                                          "BenchmarkDotNet.Artifacts")),
                            mandatoryCategories: ImmutableHashSet.Create("ILLink"),
                            job: job))
-            .ToExitCode();
+            .ConfigureAwait(false);
+        return summaries.ToExitCode();
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/benchmarks/real-world/ImageSharp/Program.cs b/src/benchmarks/real-world/ImageSharp/Program.cs
index f97854cce8c..85229ca9587 100644
--- a/src/benchmarks/real-world/ImageSharp/Program.cs
+++ b/src/benchmarks/real-world/ImageSharp/Program.cs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 using BenchmarkDotNet.Running;
 using System.Collections.Immutable;
 using System.IO;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
 
 namespace SixLabors.ImageSharp.Benchmarks
 {
@@ -16,10 +17,17 @@ public class Program
         /// <param name="args">
         /// The arguments to pass to the program.
         /// </param>
-        public static void Main(string[] args) => BenchmarkSwitcher
-            .FromAssembly(typeof(Program).Assembly)
-            .Run(args, RecommendedConfig.Create(
-                    artifactsPath: new DirectoryInfo(Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(typeof(Program).Assembly.Location), "BenchmarkDotNet.Artifacts")),
-                    mandatoryCategories: ImmutableHashSet.Create(Categories.ImageSharp)));
+        // Use RunAsync (not Run) so BDN does not install its single-threaded
+        // BenchmarkDotNetSynchronizationContext on the entrypoint thread.
+        public static async Task<int> Main(string[] args)
+        {
+            var summaries = await BenchmarkSwitcher
+                .FromAssembly(typeof(Program).Assembly)
+                .RunAsync(args, RecommendedConfig.Create(
+                        artifactsPath: new DirectoryInfo(Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(typeof(Program).Assembly.Location), "BenchmarkDotNet.Artifacts")),
+                        mandatoryCategories: ImmutableHashSet.Create(Categories.ImageSharp)))
+                .ConfigureAwait(false);
+            return summaries.ToExitCode();
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/benchmarks/real-world/Microsoft.ML.Benchmarks/Program.cs b/src/benchmarks/real-world/Microsoft.ML.Benchmarks/Program.cs
index 619c66589ae..fdf8d6918db 100644
--- a/src/benchmarks/real-world/Microsoft.ML.Benchmarks/Program.cs
+++ b/src/benchmarks/real-world/Microsoft.ML.Benchmarks/Program.cs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 using System.Globalization;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Threading;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using BenchmarkDotNet.Running;
 using BenchmarkDotNet.Extensions;
 
@@ -17,13 +18,18 @@ class Program
         /// execute dotnet run -c Release and choose the benchmarks you want to run
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="args"></param>
-        static int Main(string[] args)
-            => BenchmarkSwitcher
+        // Use RunAsync (not Run) so BDN does not install its single-threaded
+        // BenchmarkDotNetSynchronizationContext on the entrypoint thread.
+        static async Task<int> Main(string[] args)
+        {
+            var summaries = await BenchmarkSwitcher
                 .FromAssembly(typeof(Program).Assembly)
-                .Run(args, RecommendedConfig.Create(
-                    artifactsPath: new DirectoryInfo(Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(typeof(Program).Assembly.Location), "BenchmarkDotNet.Artifacts")), 
+                .RunAsync(args, RecommendedConfig.Create(
+                    artifactsPath: new DirectoryInfo(Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(typeof(Program).Assembly.Location), "BenchmarkDotNet.Artifacts")),
                     mandatoryCategories: ImmutableHashSet.Create(Categories.MachineLearning)))
-                .ToExitCode();
+                .ConfigureAwait(false);
+            return summaries.ToExitCode();
+        }
 
         internal static string GetInvariantCultureDataPath(string name)
         {
diff --git a/src/benchmarks/real-world/Microsoft.ML.Benchmarks/StochasticDualCoordinateAscentClassifierBench.cs b/src/benchmarks/real-world/Microsoft.ML.Benchmarks/StochasticDualCoordinateAscentClassifierBench.cs
index 14ae66abee2..0708860eedc 100644
--- a/src/benchmarks/real-world/Microsoft.ML.Benchmarks/StochasticDualCoordinateAscentClassifierBench.cs
+++ b/src/benchmarks/real-world/Microsoft.ML.Benchmarks/StochasticDualCoordinateAscentClassifierBench.cs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Globalization;
+using System.Threading;
 using BenchmarkDotNet.Attributes;
 using BenchmarkDotNet.Engines;
 using Microsoft.ML.Data;
@@ -75,39 +76,51 @@ private TransformerChain<MulticlassPredictionTransformer<MaximumEntropyModelPara
         [Benchmark]
         public void TrainSentiment()
         {
-            // Pipeline
-            var arguments = new TextLoader.Options()
+            // BDN 0.16 installs BenchmarkDotNetSynchronizationContext in the child process.
+            // ML.NET's ApplyWordEmbedding downloads a pretrained model using sync-over-async
+            // I/O that deadlocks on the single-threaded SyncCtx. Clear it for this benchmark.
+            var savedCtx = SynchronizationContext.Current;
+            SynchronizationContext.SetSynchronizationContext(null);
+            try
             {
-                Columns = new TextLoader.Column[]
+                // Pipeline
+                var arguments = new TextLoader.Options()
                 {
-                    new TextLoader.Column("Label", DataKind.Single, new[] { new TextLoader.Range() { Min = 0, Max = 0 } }),
-                    new TextLoader.Column("SentimentText", DataKind.String, new[] { new TextLoader.Range() { Min = 1, Max = 1 } })
-                },
-                HasHeader = true,
-                AllowQuoting = false,
-                AllowSparse = false
-            };
-
-            var loader = mlContext.Data.LoadFromTextFile(_sentimentDataPath, arguments);
-            var text = mlContext.Transforms.Text.FeaturizeText("WordEmbeddings", new TextFeaturizingEstimator.Options
+                    Columns = new TextLoader.Column[]
+                    {
+                        new TextLoader.Column("Label", DataKind.Single, new[] { new TextLoader.Range() { Min = 0, Max = 0 } }),
+                        new TextLoader.Column("SentimentText", DataKind.String, new[] { new TextLoader.Range() { Min = 1, Max = 1 } })
+                    },
+                    HasHeader = true,
+                    AllowQuoting = false,
+                    AllowSparse = false
+                };
+
+                var loader = mlContext.Data.LoadFromTextFile(_sentimentDataPath, arguments);
+                var text = mlContext.Transforms.Text.FeaturizeText("WordEmbeddings", new TextFeaturizingEstimator.Options
+                {
+                    OutputTokensColumnName = "WordEmbeddings_TransformedText",
+                    KeepPunctuations = false,
+                    StopWordsRemoverOptions = new StopWordsRemovingEstimator.Options(),
+                    Norm = TextFeaturizingEstimator.NormFunction.None,
+                    CharFeatureExtractor = null,
+                    WordFeatureExtractor = null,
+                }, "SentimentText").Fit(loader).Transform(loader);
+
+                var trans = mlContext.Transforms.Text.ApplyWordEmbedding("Features", "WordEmbeddings_TransformedText",
+                    WordEmbeddingEstimator.PretrainedModelKind.SentimentSpecificWordEmbedding)
+                    .Append(mlContext.Transforms.Conversion.MapValueToKey("Label"))
+                    .Fit(text).Transform(text);
+
+                // Train
+                var trainer = mlContext.MulticlassClassification.Trainers.SdcaMaximumEntropy();
+                var predicted = trainer.Fit(trans);
+                _consumer.Consume(predicted);
+            }
+            finally
             {
-                OutputTokensColumnName = "WordEmbeddings_TransformedText",
-                KeepPunctuations = false,
-                StopWordsRemoverOptions = new StopWordsRemovingEstimator.Options(),
-                Norm = TextFeaturizingEstimator.NormFunction.None,
-                CharFeatureExtractor = null,
-                WordFeatureExtractor = null,
-            }, "SentimentText").Fit(loader).Transform(loader);
-
-            var trans = mlContext.Transforms.Text.ApplyWordEmbedding("Features", "WordEmbeddings_TransformedText",
-                WordEmbeddingEstimator.PretrainedModelKind.SentimentSpecificWordEmbedding)
-                .Append(mlContext.Transforms.Conversion.MapValueToKey("Label"))
-                .Fit(text).Transform(text);
-
-            // Train
-            var trainer = mlContext.MulticlassClassification.Trainers.SdcaMaximumEntropy();
-            var predicted = trainer.Fit(trans);
-            _consumer.Consume(predicted);
+                SynchronizationContext.SetSynchronizationContext(savedCtx);
+            }
         }
 
         [GlobalSetup(Targets = new string[] { nameof(PredictIris), nameof(PredictIrisBatchOf1), nameof(PredictIrisBatchOf2), nameof(PredictIrisBatchOf5) })]
diff --git a/src/benchmarks/real-world/PowerShell.Benchmarks/Program.cs b/src/benchmarks/real-world/PowerShell.Benchmarks/Program.cs
index 53f9a3ce95b..329b2d70b06 100644
--- a/src/benchmarks/real-world/PowerShell.Benchmarks/Program.cs
+++ b/src/benchmarks/real-world/PowerShell.Benchmarks/Program.cs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Collections.Immutable;
 using System.IO;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using BenchmarkDotNet.Running;
 using BenchmarkDotNet.Extensions;
 
@@ -12,7 +13,9 @@ namespace MicroBenchmarks
 {
     public sealed class Program
     {
-        public static int Main(string[] args)
+        // Use RunAsync (not Run) so BDN does not install its single-threaded
+        // BenchmarkDotNetSynchronizationContext on the entrypoint thread.
+        public static async Task<int> Main(string[] args)
         {
             var argsList = new List<string>(args);
             int? partitionCount;
@@ -38,9 +41,9 @@ public static int Main(string[] args)
                 return 1;
             }
 
-            return BenchmarkSwitcher
+            var summaries = await BenchmarkSwitcher
                 .FromAssembly(typeof(Program).Assembly)
-                .Run(
+                .RunAsync(
                     argsList.ToArray(),
                     RecommendedConfig.Create(
                         artifactsPath: new DirectoryInfo(Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(typeof(Program).Assembly.Location), "BenchmarkDotNet.Artifacts")),
@@ -50,7 +53,8 @@ public static int Main(string[] args)
                         exclusionFilterValue: exclusionFilterValue,
                         categoryExclusionFilterValue: categoryExclusionFilterValue,
                         getDiffableDisasm: getDiffableDisasm))
-                .ToExitCode();
+                .ConfigureAwait(false);
+            return summaries.ToExitCode();
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/benchmarks/real-world/Roslyn/Program.cs b/src/benchmarks/real-world/Roslyn/Program.cs
index dcd2096b6d7..f2116956b44 100644
--- a/src/benchmarks/real-world/Roslyn/Program.cs
+++ b/src/benchmarks/real-world/Roslyn/Program.cs
@@ -20,11 +20,14 @@
 // to communicate information is pass by environment variable
 Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable(Helpers.TestProjectEnvVarName, sourceDir);
 
-return BenchmarkSwitcher
+// Use RunAsync (not Run) so BDN does not install its single-threaded
+// BenchmarkDotNetSynchronizationContext on the entrypoint thread.
+var summaries = await BenchmarkSwitcher
     .FromAssembly(typeof(Helpers).Assembly)
-    .Run(args, RecommendedConfig.Create(
+    .RunAsync(args, RecommendedConfig.Create(
                    artifactsPath: new DirectoryInfo(Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(typeof(Helpers).Assembly.Location),
                                                                  "BenchmarkDotNet.Artifacts")),
                    mandatoryCategories: ImmutableHashSet.Create("Roslyn"),
                    job: Job.Default.WithMaxRelativeError(0.01)))
-    .ToExitCode();
+    .ConfigureAwait(false);
+return summaries.ToExitCode();
diff --git a/src/benchmarks/real-world/bepuphysics2/Program.cs b/src/benchmarks/real-world/bepuphysics2/Program.cs
index f09fff1f790..ff67c617193 100644
--- a/src/benchmarks/real-world/bepuphysics2/Program.cs
+++ b/src/benchmarks/real-world/bepuphysics2/Program.cs
@@ -3,14 +3,20 @@
 using BenchmarkDotNet.Running;
 using DemoBenchmarks;
 using System.Collections.Immutable;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
 
 public class BepuPhysics2Benchmarks
 {
-    public static void Main(string[] args) =>
-        BenchmarkSwitcher
+    // Use RunAsync (not Run) so BDN does not install its single-threaded
+    // BenchmarkDotNetSynchronizationContext on the entrypoint thread.
+    public static async Task<int> Main(string[] args)
+    {
+        var summaries = await BenchmarkSwitcher
             .FromAssembly(typeof(BepuPhysics2Benchmarks).Assembly)
-            .Run(args, RecommendedConfig.Create(
+            .RunAsync(args, RecommendedConfig.Create(
                     artifactsPath: new DirectoryInfo(Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(typeof(BepuPhysics2Benchmarks).Assembly.Location), "BenchmarkDotNet.Artifacts")),
                     mandatoryCategories: ImmutableHashSet.Create(Categories.BepuPhysics)))
-            .ToExitCode();
+            .ConfigureAwait(false);
+        return summaries.ToExitCode();
+    }
 }