Canadian 10,000m report holder Andrea Seccafien, who has been sidelined by accidents for a lot of the previous two years, made a sensational return to type Sunday by operating 34:15 to win the Underneath Armour Eastside 10K in Vancouver.
The 33-year-old Guelph, Ont., native crossed the end line 4 seconds forward of Vancouver’s Glynis Sim, 25, who final November captured the U Sports activities XC title in Halifax.
Putting third on the ladies’s podium was Samantha Jory, additionally of Vancouver, who completed in 34:42. Jory shocked spectators finally yr’s Vancouver Half Marathon, when the then-27-year-old, who was not on the elite record and was competing in solely her third-ever half-marathon, gained the race in 1:18:19.
Seccafien ran the ten,000m on the 2021 Sound Working’s Monitor Meet in California two years in the past in 31:13.94 to smash the Canadian girls’s report. Her weekend win marks an enormous milestone on her highway to restoration. The 2-time Olympian’s struggles with damage have included dealing with a meniscus root tear final yr, and extra just lately, coping with a calcaneus stress fracture. Her victory Sunday follows her look finally month’s TD Seashore to Beacon 10K in Cape Elizabeth, Maine—what she referred to as on social media “her first race again after an extended, onerous comeback”—the place she ran to 34:20 and completed 14th within the girls’s race.
Within the males’s race Sunday, Vancouver’s Thomas Broatch, who positioned third this yr in each the Vancouver Solar Run and Vancouver’s First Half, topped the rostrum in 30:02. He was adopted by Calgary’s Alex Drover (30:12) and Trevor Hofbauer of Kelowna, B.C. (30:18).
Greater than 3,000 runners took half within the Underneath Armour Eastside 10K, a race that takes members alongside a scenic course via the historic and industrial parts of Vancouver’s Gastown and Strathcona neighbourhoods, and which this yr celebrated its tenth yr.
Over the previous decade, the race has contributed $235,000 to native charity companions, which this yr included Child Sport Vancouver, Downtown Eastside Girls’s Centre, City Native Youth Affiliation, and PHS Group Companies Society.
Marathon Beneva de Montréal
Felex Cheruiyot Rop of Kenya ran 2:23:20 to edge out Canadian rivals and win Sunday’s Marathon Beneva de Montréal. Simon LeBlanc ran 2:23:52 to complete second, with fellow Canadian Ahmed Mainy ending third in 2:24:15.
The same scene performed out within the girls’s marathon Sunday, with Kenya’s Monicah Cheruto successful in 2:53:47, adopted by Canadians Joelle White (2:58:37) in second and Andréanne Sansoucy (3:02:51) in third.
Within the half-marathon, France’s Anthony Frontera crossed the end line in 1:06:21 forward of Canada’s Jeremy Briand (1:06:32) and American runner John Hinkle (1:07:09)
Canada dominated the ladies’s half-marathon podium, in the meantime. Anne-Marie Comeau ran 1:13:23 to prime the rostrum, adopted by Lynda Gingras (1:22:48) and Watson Maia (1:26:54).
