For the second consecutive 12 months, Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge and Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa have been topped champions on the BMW Berlin Marathon. Kipchoge secured his record-setting fifth victory in 2:02:42, surpassing the good Haile Gebrselassie, who had gained 4 occasions between 2006 and 2009. Nevertheless, all eyes have been on Assefa, who obliterated the ladies’s marathon world report in solely her third marathon, turning into the primary lady to interrupt 2:14, 2:13 and a couple of:12, defending her title in 2:11:53. The spectacular performances in Berlin didn’t finish there, as many Canadian runners achieved private bests on the historic and flat course. Right here’s how the highest Canadians fared.
The highest Canadian finisher was two-time Olympian Malindi Elmore of Kelowna, B.C., who took first place within the W40-44 age class and gained the masters division outright. Elmore got here remarkably near reclaiming her nationwide report, set by Natasha Wodak on this course only a 12 months in the past, lacking it by solely 18 seconds. Elmore was additionally the highest North American feminine finisher in 2:23:30, attaining an 80-second private finest and assembly the Olympic marathon commonplace of two:26:50 for Paris 2024.
A good looking run!! pic.twitter.com/XlH3C1kkvy
— Graham Hood (@grahamhood) September 24, 2023
Greg Pigeon of Chichester, Que., stood out because the main Canadian male in Berlin, attaining a four-minute private finest with a time of two:27:14, inserting 145th general and forty ninth within the M30-34 age group. Pigeon’s efficiency marked a big enchancment from his earlier finest on the 2023 Tartan Ottawa Worldwide Marathon in Might, the place he completed because the third Canadian male behind Lee Wesselius and Blair Morgan in 2:31:33.
High 10 Canadian males
Greg Pigeon 2:27:14 (145th OA)
Sam Hunt 2:32:45 (292nd)
Kevin Lachance 2:34:35 (367th)
Esteban Clavijo 2:34:39 (371st)
Michael King 2:36:19 (444th)
Gabriel Ghiglione 2:36:39 (462nd)
Nick Rupert 2:37:50 (527th)
Evgeniy Panzhinskiy 2:37:58 (535th)
Gabriel Jarquin 2:39:35 (658th)
Thomas Savoure 2:41:37 (779th)
What an awesome expertise working the Berlin Marathon. The crowds have been wonderful! I even noticed some individuals from Ottawa! Trying ahead to being again within the workplace tomorrow.
Quelle belle expérience que de courir le marathon de Berlin. Les foules étaient incroyables ! J’ai même vu des… pic.twitter.com/d4yG5VA29Y
— Mark Sutcliffe (@_MarkSutcliffe) September 25, 2023
High 10 Canadian ladies
Malindi Elmore 2:23:30 (thirteenth OA, 1st grasp, 1st in W40)
Emily Andrews 2:48:19 (89th)
Catherine Paul 2:53:51 (141st)
Meghan Tait 2:55:48 (a hundred and seventieth)
Marie Coolsaet 2:56:10 (a hundred and seventy fifth)
Sarah Donaldson 2:56:13 (176th)
Erica Inexperienced 2:56:23 (179th)
Gabrielle Plamondon 3:02:07 (289th)
Agnieszka Rogut 3:03:29 (314th, ninth in W50)
High Canadian age groupers *
Malindi Elmore 2:23:30 (thirteenth OA, 1st in W40)
Jo-Anne Lane 3:35:53 (2nd in W65)
Roger Burlton 4:03:11 (third in M75)
Barbara Freedman 4:09:01 (fifth in W70)
Ellen Ayer 3:57:53 (eighth in W65)
Kathy Coffey 5:53:50 (eighth in W75)
Agnieszka Rogut 3:03:29 (ninth in W50)
Rhonda Springer 3:19:05 (ninth in W55)
Terri Hillestad 5:01:58 (eleventh in W70)
(*We acknowledge those that positioned within the high 15 of their age group.)
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