On Sunday, Canada’s Cam Levins broke just a few information together with his spectacular 2:05:36 run on the 2023 Tokyo Marathon. He lowered his Canadian marathon file by over a minute and a half, broke a 21-year-old North American marathon file (beforehand held by former world-record holder Khalid Khannouchi) and now has the quickest marathon ever uploaded to Strava.
It’s a fairly unimaginable feat as, annually, thousands and thousands of runners add their marathons to the social media platform, and now a Canadian runner holds the Strava (elapsed time) file.
On Sunday morning in Tokyo, Levins ran to a large minute-and-a-half private greatest on his solution to a fifth-place end on the 2023 Tokyo Marathon. Levins has been on a roll, clocking nationwide information in three of his final 4 races.
The earlier file was held by Japan’s Yusuke Ogura, from the 2021 Lake Biwa Marathon in Shiga, Japan, with a time of two:06:52.
Levins is understood for operating upwards of 1fastest marathon time on Strava simply received faster, because of Yusuke Ogura, who completed in fifth place on the Lake Biwa Marathon, Japan, with a time of two:06:5270 miles every week (270 km), however we promise he gained’t spam your Strava feed. The 33-year-old solely appears to add his lengthy runs and exercises to his Strava web page, regardless of stating that he generally ran thrice a day during his marathon construct.
His record-setting exercise on Strava continues to be gliding underneath the radar, however it’s best to positively give him some well-deserved kudos.
