Boston’s race weekend obtained off to a scorching begin on Saturday morning–and that’s not even contemplating the humid, 24 C climate. Elite Canadian runners packed the leaderboards for the lads’s and ladies’s B.A.A. Invitational Mile and Boston 5K occasions, with Calgary’s Aaron Ahl main the cost.
The 26-year-old got here heartbreakingly near victory within the mile, however for the second straight yr, was edged out by American athlete Casey Comber.
The 2 occasions coursed by way of Boston’s Again Bay neighbourhood, with greater than 100 professional runners competing from across the globe.
Males’s mile
The mile made for a really tight end, with Comber, Ahl and Australian bronze medallist Mick Stanovsek all clocking 4:07. Comber’s victory marks the primary back-to-back win within the occasion since 2014. Additional down the sphere, Kitchener, Ont.’s Foster Malleck impressed in his skilled and highway mile debut, inserting seventh in 4:10–only a day after signing with Below Armour Baltimore.
Ladies’s mile
Lucknow, Ont.’s Julie-Anne Staehli delivered an impressive fourth-place end, clocking 4:45. The 31-year-old seems to be thriving since starting her new position as athlete service co-ordinator for Queen’s College; she’s recent off a win at Toronto’s Beneva Spring Run-Off 8K in early April. Ottawa’s Erin Teschuk additionally had a powerful run, taking tenth in 4:51.
The race’s prime three finishers have been Kenya’s Dorcas Ewoi (4:43) and U.S. runners Laurie Barton (4:44) and Kate Mitchell (4:45).
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Males’s 5K
The elite males’s 5K discipline was full of Canadians. Puma athlete Max Turek of Whitby, Ont., led the Canadian contingent, ending fifth in 13:52. Repentigny, Que., native and 2024 Olympian Thomas Fafard took seventh with a time of 13:56, whereas Toronto’s Andrew Alexander claimed ninth in 14:02.
Different prime 20 Canadian outcomes:
tenth: Jean-Simon Desgagnés (Quebec Metropolis) – 14:02
thirteenth: Charles Philibert-Thiboutot (Quebec Metropolis) – 14:04
fifteenth: Nicholas Bannon (Shelburne, Ont.) – 14:10
18th: Mitchell Ubene (Tecumseh, Ont.) –14:24
Ladies’s 5K
Gracelyn Larkin of Rosseau, Ont., was the highest Canadian finisher within the ladies’s 5K, persevering with her string of spectacular performances this yr; she ran 16:05 for seventeenth place. Larkin was adopted by Toronto’s Alexandra Lucki, who claimed nineteenth with a time of 16:12, and Sunderland, Ont.’s Lilly Tuck, who ran 17:01 for twenty second.
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The 2025 Boston Marathon will probably be broadcast on TSN, starting at 9:00 a.m. ET on Monday, April 21. The ladies’s open race will start at 9:47 a.m.
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