The 2024 Chicago Marathon was full of fireworks and quick performances. Within the ladies’s race, Ruth Chepngetich set a mind-blowing new world file of two:09:56, whereas younger marathon star John Korir turned the sixth-fastest man in historical past, successful the lads’s race in 2:02:44. It wasn’t simply the elites who delivered spectacular performances—2,000 Canadian marathoners made the journey to the Windy Metropolis, many reaching private bests. Right here’s a have a look at the highest Canadians.
Phil Parrot-Migas of London, Ont., the one Canadian man within the elite discipline, was the highest Canadian finisher, setting a brand new private greatest of two:15:32. Regardless of having one among his bottles taken by one other elite athlete on the 37 km mark, Parrot-Migas managed a 21-second private greatest, recording the eighth-fastest time by a Canadian marathoner this yr.
On the ladies’s facet, Meaghan Strum of Halifax was the highest feminine Canadian finisher, putting twenty second total. The 36-year-old shaved greater than six minutes off her earlier greatest of two:43:25, and has improved her marathon time by a formidable 45 minutes over the past 5 years.
A number of Canadian marathoners additionally triumphed of their age classes. Elizabeth Waywell of Guelph, Ont., completed first within the ladies’s 65-69 division with a time of three:15:30, simply lacking her Canadian age-group file of three:14:18 by one minute. She gained her age group by eight minutes and would have even topped the ladies’s 60-64 division. Terence Markle of Calgary additionally topped his age group, successful the lads’s 65-69 class in 3:08:45.
Prime 10 Canadian males
Phil Parrot-Migas 2:15:32 (twenty seventh OA)
Steven Lawrence 2:28:09 (one hundred and fifth) – twelfth in M45-49 age group
Ryan Tice 2:32:12 (184th)
Jacob Barkley 2:37:04 (325th)
Eaton Seagrave 2:38:30 (367th)
Thom Peters 2:38:35 (371st)
Noah Proust 2:38:53 (386th)
Francis Laliberte 2:39:03 (four-hundredth)
Fernando Bralha 2:39:20 (421st)
Guillaume Goulet 2:39:26 (432nd)
Prime 10 Canadian ladies
Meaghan Strum 2:36:45 (twenty second Feminine)
Samantha Jory 2:39:17 (twenty ninth)
Bianca Premont 2:39:37 (thirty second)
Polly Moody 2:44:38 (51st)
Kaili Van Vulpen 2:46:08 (57th)
Elaina Raponi 2:46:23 (61st)
Teagan Robertson 2:47:20 (66th)
Meghan Tait 2:49:58 (eighty fifth)
Jessica Wylychenko 2:52:09 (104th)
Josyane Tessier 2:53:00 (116th)
Prime Canadian age groupers *
Males
Terence Markle 3:08:45 (1st in M65)
Roger Burlton 4:13:02 (2nd in M75)
Steven Lawrence 2:28:09 (2nd in M45)
Andrew Kilback 3:17:02 (fifth in M65)
Steven Blostein 3:04:13 (sixth in M60)
Dave Whitworth 5:01:44 (eighth in M75)
Evan Haick 3:15:00 (ninth in M19-)
Phil Parrot-Migas 2:15:32 (eleventh in M30)
Evan Dorward 3:12:26 (thirteenth in M60)
Richard Bouthillier 5:28:57 (thirteenth in M75)
Girls
Elizabeth Waywell 3:15:30 (1st in W65)
Bianca Premont 2:39:37 (2nd in W40)
Martine Dandoy 3:33:32 (4th in W65)
Yan Ma 3:34:19 (4th in W60)
Meaghan Strum 2:36:45 (fifth in W35)
Marianne Pekhat 2:57:12 (fifth in W45)
Odette Gelinas 3:38:40 (fifth in W65)
Samantha Jory 2:39:17 (sixth in W25)
Polly Moody 2:44:38 (sixth in W40)
Bettina Poulos 3:09:02 (seventh in W50)
Jo-Anne Lane 3:41:08 (seventh in W65)
Ann Kask 6:52:15 (seventh in W75)
Linda MacDonald 3:23:23 (ninth in W55)
Linette Kennedy 7:23:11 (tenth in W75)
Kaili Van Vulpen 2:46:08 (eleventh in W35)
Heather Magill 2:53:14 (eleventh in W40)
Jo-Ann Sartore 3:44:01 (twelfth in W60)
Catherine Powell 4:48:51 (thirteenth in W70)
Yi Xiao 3:28:13 (14th in W55)
Teagan Robertson 2:47:20 (fifteenth in W25)
(*We acknowledge those that positioned within the high 15 of their age group.)
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