Tokyo 2020 Olympian and the fourth-fastest Canadian marathoner, Trevor Hofbauer, has hung up his carbon-plated sneakers. On Wednesday, the 32-year-old introduced on social media that he has achieved the whole lot he wished to in his profession and might be transferring on from athletics.
On Instagram, Hofbauer wrote: “As we speak, I’m saying my retirement from Athletics. My profession has been a dream come true, closely supported by household, associates, group, race organizations, sponsors, and the need to be one of the best model of myself on this discipline. I’m endlessly grateful for the recollections and friendships which have developed alongside the way in which, and for the alternatives to signify my house, group and nation on the world stage.”
“Thanks to everybody who has cheered me on alongside the way in which.”
Hofbauer is a three-time Canadian marathon champion and represented Canada on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the males’s marathon, the place he positioned forty seventh general, in 2:19:57. His private finest time within the marathon got here on the 2019 Toronto Waterfront Marathon, the place he completed as the highest Canadian, in 2:09:51.
The 32-year-old had the aim of constructing the Canadian marathon workforce for Paris 2024, however his Olympic aspirations ended after he suffered an Achilles harm final spring.
Regardless of his elite days being over, Hofbauer says he’ll proceed working inside the working trade with RunCalgary and the Calgary Marathon and as a retail specialist with unbiased working retailer, Strides Working.
Hofbauer had an unlikely path to skilled working, developing by the Canadian collegiate system after pursuing a profession in basketball till he was 19.
In a 2015 interview with Canadian Working, Hofbauer mentioned he wished to be a optimistic function mannequin inside the working group. “Being part of the group offers me a distinct perspective on the game; it permits me to stay level-headed, and I’m in a position to meet so many individuals with superb tales. This sport is a present; that’s how I understand it. On the finish of the day, I wish to be often known as the child with a ton of coronary heart earlier than I’m labelled as the child with quick legs.”