Justin Kent of Surrey, B.C., took the title of Canadian marathon champion on Sunday morning on the 2024 TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon, setting a private finest of two:12:17 to win his first nationwide championship within the distance.
Justin Kent is formally your Males’s 2024 Canadian Marathon Champion on the Toronto Waterfront Marathon 🇨🇦🥇 pic.twitter.com/sMMCwX5Dla
— Athletics Canada (@AthleticsCanada) October 20, 2024
Kent advised Canadian Working at Friday’s press convention that he was in the most effective form of his profession upon arriving in Toronto, having particularly educated for the race since March. His efficiency Sunday in Toronto improved upon his earlier private finest of two:13:07, set on the 2023 Prague Marathon.
“I’m stoked with the consequence,” says Kent. “Moreover the wind being in opposition to me on the way in which again, I felt easy and in management.”
The 32-year-old had a breakthrough efficiency with household and pals cheering him on on the end line, together with the most recent member of the Kent household, Willa. “To have my spouse [Lindsey Butterworth], mom, and my five-month-old daughter right here means all the things,” says Kent. “I’m speechless.”
Lee Wesselius of River Glade, N.B. crossed the road for second in a private finest 2:13:47. Toronto’s Andrew Alexander rounded out the Canadian podium in his marathon debut for third in 2:14:13.
🇨🇦’s Justin Kent (a brand new dad) received his first Canadian title on the Canadian Marathon Championships in Toronto with a private finest of two:12:17🏆@TOwaterfront42k #choosetorun pic.twitter.com/Co44V6LJQm
— Canadian Working (@CanadianRunning) October 20, 2024
The TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon is one in every of two World Athletics Label marathons in Canada, providing Canada’s prime marathoners the prospect to run quick on house soil. Kent completed seventh general within the males’s area solely 5 minutes behind Ethiopia’s Mulugeta Uma, who received the race in 2:07:16.
This was Uma’s second main marathon victory of the yr; he additionally received the Paris Marathon in April. Dominic Ngeno of Kenya completed second in 2:07:23, and Noah Kipkemboi, additionally of Kenya, took third in 2:07:31.
For full outcomes from the 2024 TCS Toronto Waterfront Half-Marathon and Marathon, examine right here.