On Sunday morning on the B.A.A. Half in Boston, Vancouver’s Kieran Lumb delivered a powerful debut within the half-marathon, clocking a swift 62:03 to safe third place. Lumb completed simply two seconds behind Kenya’s Isaac Kipkemboi, who took second in 62:01, with Yemane Hailelassie of Eritrea claiming victory in 61:46.
Unimaginable half marathon debut for 🇨🇦 1,500m runner Kieran Lumb!
Lumb was third on the @BAA half this morning in Boston in 62:03 (fifth quickest in 🇨🇦 historical past). pic.twitter.com/AVnRVjiEVl
— Marley Dickinson (@marleydickinson) November 10, 2024
Lumb wasn’t the one Canadian man who excelled on Sunday morning—his Olympic teammates Thomas Fafard, Ben Flanagan and Hamilton’s Max Turek (who lately paced Natasha Wodak to her 2024 Canadian marathon title) additionally captured prime 10 positions, with Fafard taking seventh in 62:17, forward of Flanagan in eighth (62:23) and Turek, who captured the tenth spot in 62:45. Toth was twenty fifth in 67:11.
Following a busy summer time on the observe, the place 26-year-old Lumb captured his second consecutive nationwide title within the 1,500m and represented Workforce Canada on the Paris Olympics, Lumb was desperate to tackle a brand new problem—a race 14 instances the size of his normal 1,500m occasion. “My coach and I wished to attempt one thing totally different this fall and emphasize power,” Lumb advised Canadian Working pre-race. “It’s been refreshing to combine issues up.”
Pre-race, Lumb mentioned he was excited to compete in opposition to Flanagan and Fafard, two athletes he not often faces. Fafard, of Repentigny, Que., made his skilled debut with Brooks Working on the 2024 Bell Canadian Olympic Monitor and Subject Trials, the place he completed second within the males’s 5,000m. Flanagan, a former Canadian half-marathon document holder, briefly held the accolade in 2022 after working 61 minutes on the Valencia Half Marathon. Flanagan’s document was surpassed by Cam Levins on the Vancouver First Half in February 2023, with Levins’s time of 60:18 nonetheless standing as the highest Canadian mark.
The scenic Boston Half course winds by way of town’s Emerald Necklace Park System, passing landmarks such because the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Pond and Franklin Park Zoo. The end line is in Franklin Park, simply south of town.
This 12 months’s race didn’t characteristic any Canadian feminine elites. For a whole listing of the lads’s and girls’s outcomes, head right here.