A yr after profitable her first marathon on Canadian soil in Ottawa, Ethiopia’s Waganesh Mekasha has performed it once more—this time in Toronto. Mekasha set a brand new course and Canadian soil report on the 2024 TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon, crossing the end line in 2:20:44.
The cool temperatures on the race begin created ultimate circumstances for quick occasions in each the boys’s and girls’s elite fields. Mekasha, together with a powerful ladies’s discipline, focused the course report tempo from the outset. It wasn’t till the second half of the race, nevertheless, that Mekasha made her decisive transfer, breaking away from her Ethiopian compatriots Roza Dereje and Afera Godfay.
Mekasha, the 2023 Ottawa Marathon champion, had aimed to interrupt the ladies’s course report in Toronto final yr, however completed second to Ethiopia’s Buze Diriba Kejela in difficult windy circumstances. This yr, she earned redemption with a private greatest of two:20:44, slicing two minutes off her earlier time.
Ethiopians swept the ladies’s podium, with Mekasha main the best way. Dereje took second in 2:21:26, and Godfay secured third in 2:21:50. All thrice got here in beneath the earlier course report of two:22:16, set by Kenya’s Magdalyne Masai in 2019.
Waganesh Mekasha🇪🇹 units a brand new course report on the@TOwaterfront42k, clocking 2:20:44.
It was the quickest podium in historical past, as all 3 ladies broke the earlier course report of two:22:16🤩 pic.twitter.com/BQ1Jblp4TZ
— Canadian Operating (@CanadianRunning) October 20, 2024
Natasha Wodak wins her first Canadian marathon title
Canadian marathon report holder Natasha Wodak of Vancouver received the Canadian Marathon Championships at Sunday’s TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon, ending in 2:27:54. This victory marked her first nationwide title at this distance and a triumphant return to the occasion the place she made her marathon debut in 2013. It was additionally her quickest marathon since setting the Canadian report on the 2022 Berlin Marathon.
Leslie Sexton of Markham, Ont., and Rachel Hannah rounded out the Canadian ladies’s podium in 2:33:15 and a couple of:34:43, respectively.
🇨🇦’s @tasha_wodak received her first nationwide marathon title on the @TOwaterfront42k in 2:27:54.
Even after scuffling with nausea and getting down fluids throughout the race, she nonetheless pulled via to clock her greatest time in 2 years! 🏃♀️💨#chooseToRun pic.twitter.com/vjLe9wMHdb
— Canadian Operating (@CanadianRunning) October 20, 2024
High 10 ladies’s outcomes
1. Waganesh Medasha ETH 2:20:44
2. Roza Dereje ETH 2:21:26
3. Afera Godfay ETH 2:21:50
4. Mesert Gebre ETH 2:24:50
5. Natasha Wodak CAN 2:27:54
6. Rediet Daniel ETH 2:33:05
7. Leslie Sexton CAN 2:33:15
8. Lydia Simiyu KEN 2:33:49
9. Rachel Hannah CAN 2:34:33
10. Anne-Marie Comeau CAN 2:35:16
For full outcomes from the 2024 TCS Toronto Waterfront Half-Marathon and Marathon, examine right here.