It was a day for private bests for the Canadian males on the Chevron Houston Marathon on Sunday. Cobden, Ont.’s Tristan Woodfine and Thomas Broatch of Vancouver completed in sixth and seventh place, operating 2:10:39 and a couple of:11:51 respectively.
Broatch bettered his former greatest time of two:16:25, from his debut within the distance on the TCS Waterfront Marathon in October, whileWoodfine bested his time of two:10:51 on the 2020 London Marathon. “Tristan needed to run loads of time by himself, and there weren’t many pacers,” stated Woodfine’s coach and former Canadian 50K report holder Reid Coolsaet post-race.” Each runners had been over the 2024 Paris Olympic normal of two:07:45.
Massive PBs on the @HoustonMarathon for 🇨🇦 males Tristan Woodfine and Thomas Broatch!
Woodfine knocked 12 seconds off his former greatest. A close to four-minute PB for Broatch 👏
📷: @alnbrookes #houstonmarathon pic.twitter.com/IE5or5W38c
— Canadian Working (@CanadianRunning) January 14, 2024
Canadian marathon report holder Natasha Wodak, and former nationwide staff athletes Leslie Sexton and Lanni Marchant all missed their hoped-for aim of hitting the Paris 2024 Olympic normal of two:26:50. Sexton and Wodak nonetheless cracked the highest 10, with Sexton ending eighth in 2:28:14, and Wodak ninth in 2:28:42. Marchant completed in 2:28:32 and fifteenth place.
Males’s race
The highest 4 runners hit the Olympic normal of two:08:10 at Sunday’s Chevron Houston Marathon, with Moroccan runner Zouhair Talbi first over the road in a course report (and private greatest) time of two:06:39.
U.S.-based Talbi, who was fifth in each the 2023 Boston Marathon and Houston Half Marathon, ran a private greatest, with second-place Tsedat Ayana of Ethiopia ending in 2:07.00, and Hendrik Pfeiffer of Germany rounding out the rostrum in 2:07.14. Pat Tiernan of Australia was the fourth runner in beneath Olympic normal in 2:07:45.
Congrats to @zouhair_talbi from #Morocco coming in at first place at 2:06:39 on the Chevron Houston Marathon. #HOUMARATHON #HOUHALF #HOU5K #RUNHOU @KHOU pic.twitter.com/mdo5Dk2Qpn
— John King (@JohnKKHOU) January 14, 2024
Girls’s race
Ethiopia’s Rahma Tusa received the ladies’s race in 2:19:33. Tusa is a three-time winner of the Rome Marathon, and was fifth within the 2018 NYC Marathon.
Second-place Vicoty Chepngeno of Kenya was 22 seconds behind Tusa in 2:19:55, and Ethiopian runner Melesech Tsegaye Beyene rounded out the ladies’s podium in 2:24:50.
Chepngeno was making her marathon debut was the 2022 winner and course report holder of the Houston Half Marathon, the place she ran 1:05:03—what’s the quickest girls’s half marathon time run in North America.
Rahma Tusa wins the Houston Marathon in 2:19:33. Vicoty Chepngeno finishes second, 22 seconds again. pic.twitter.com/OJnoS5y7fg
— Quick Girls (@fast_women) January 14, 2024
Nonbinary race
Brooklyn, N.Y. runner Erin Anthony received the nonbinary division on Sunday in 3:22:37. They had been adopted by Chicago’s Cynthia Kmak in 3:28:31 and Houston’s Hannah Schaible in 4:19:18.
For full outcomes of the 2024 Chevron Houston Marathon, head right here.
