On Saturday evening on the 2024 Canadian 10K Championships at Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend, Malindi Elmore gained her first nationwide 10K title in 15 years, breaking the tape with a dominant time of 32 minutes and 50 seconds. (Her final 10K nationwide title got here in 2009.)
With uncertainty across the health of 2023 10K champion Natasha Wodak, who ran the Hamburg Marathon 4 weeks in the past. It introduced a possibility for Elmore to push the tempo from the beginning. The 44-year-old from Kelowna, B.C. was out on her personal by 3K, opening up a close to 20-second hole on the midway level.
In a post-race interview, Elmore stated the purpose of as we speak was to harm. “It damage very a lot,” she laughed. “I hoped folks would include me, nevertheless it didn’t occur.”
“The entire level of as we speak was damage with what’s forward.”
– Malindi Elmore on profitable the 🇨🇦 10K champs and her first title in 15 years pic.twitter.com/WpQSiQOWCp
— Canadian Operating (@CanadianRunning) Might 25, 2024
Elmore’s profitable time was solely six seconds again of her 10K private better of 32:44 from 2019. She got here into the Ottawa 10K with the main focus of utilizing the race as a stepping stone in her Paris Olympic marathon construct, 11 weeks from now.
“I feel we’re in a great place,” says Elmore on her Paris Olympic marathon construct. “The secret’s to get essentially the most out of your self whereas staying wholesome… It’s a fantastic line.”
Cleo Boyd completed second in 33:12 (a brand new private finest), with Vancouver’s Wodak third in 33:21. Notably, two of the highest three finishers are grasp’s runners. (Elmore is 44 and Wodak is 42.)
High 10 Ladies
- Malindi Elmore 32:50
- Cleo Boyd 33:12 PB
- Natasha Wodak 33:21
- Lanni Marchant 33:31
- Salome Nyirarukundo 33:59
- Caroline Pomerleau 34:01
- Sophia Jacobs-Townsley 34:08
- Makenna Fitzgerald 34:10
- Eliyah Brawdy 34:15
- Elissa Morin 34:17
Ben Flanagan breaks his nationwide file at Canadian 10K Championships
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