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Prime Canadian finishers on the 2024 London Marathon

The 2024 London Marathon noticed a number of world information damaged within the males’s and ladies’s races on Sunday, with the reigning Olympic marathon champion, Peres Jepchirchir, breaking the tape in a brand new women-only world file (a race with no male pacers). Within the males’s discipline, Ethiopian operating legend Kenenisa Bekele positioned second in a brand new masters file of two:04:15, solely 14 seconds behind the winner, Alexander Munyao of Kenya, who received his first marathon main in 2:04:01. Though there have been no Canadian elites within the London Marathon discipline, a number of runners within the mass race clocked spectacular private bests and achieved notable age class placings.

Peres Jepchirchir London
Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir received the 2024 London Marathon. Photograph: Kevin Morris

The quickest Canadian finisher was Timothy Fowler of Toronto, who ran a private greatest of two:38:24. The highest Canadian lady was Toronto’s Madeline McDonald, who crossed the end line in 2:47:11, in thirty second place. McDonald, 29, has beforehand represented Staff Canada on the junior degree and ran at McMaster and Toronto throughout her collegiate profession.

Prime 10 Canadian girls

  1. Madeline McDonald 2:47:11 (thirty second lady, twentieth in W18-39)
  2. Lindsay Cristante 2:59:59
  3. Meghan Tait 3:00:42
  4. Jurgita Budraityte 3:02:53
  5. Bianca Tillman 3:05:48
  6. Nini Wu 3:08:46
  7. Olivia Lukasewich 3:09:15
  8. Erica Inexperienced 3:10:26
  9. Erin Merkley 3:10:43
  10. Genevieve Cauffope 3:11:23

Prime 10 Canadian males

  1. Timothy Fowler 2:38:24 (620th total, 87th in M40-44) 
  2. Alexander Katsaras 2:39:11
  3. Shawn Macfarlane 2:39:46
  4. Daniel Pham 2:39:52
  5. Nick Walker 2:42:49
  6. Samuel Issak 2:43:35
  7. Brendan Moore 2:43:49
  8. Hong Duan 2:46:12
  9. Riccardo Opeka 2:49:11
  10. Matthieu Fawcett 2:53:17

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Prime Canadian age groupers*

Males

Bruce Grant 3:01:38 – 4th in M65-69
Andrew Kilback 3:18:51 – 18th in M65-69

Ladies

Rosie Van Aspert 3:54:56 – eighth in W65-69
Linda MacDonald 3:13:15 – twelfth in W55-59
Judie Thom 3:35:17 – twelfth in W60-64
Barbara Freedman 4:26:54 – twelfth in W70-74
Madeline McDonald 2:47:11 – twentieth in W18-39
Linette Kennedy 8:00:20 – twentieth in W75-79

*We acknowledge those that positioned within the high 20 of their age class.

You’ll be able to head right here to take a look at the complete 2024 London Marathon outcomes.


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