On Sunday, the primary marathon main of the autumn season noticed a record-breaking variety of finishers. Greater than 54,000 runners accomplished the 2024 Berlin Marathon, the place Ethiopian athletes Tigist Ketema and Milkesa Mengesha claimed their first Berlin Marathon titles. Ketema, 26, secured her second main marathon victory of the yr with a time of two:16:42, whereas Mengesha, 24, gained the boys’s race in 2:03:17—one of many quickest occasions on this planet this yr.
The spectacular performances didn’t cease there, as many Canadian runners set private bests on Berlin’s famously quick and flat course. Right here’s a have a look at how the highest Canadians carried out.
With no Canadian elites lining up, the highest finishers got here from the mass participation discipline. Toronto’s Brian Putre and Carolyn Buchanan led the best way for Canada. Putre completed 346th total, with a time of two:31:44, whereas Buchanan cracked the highest 40 within the girls’s discipline, putting thirty ninth in 2:39:38—shaving 89 seconds off her earlier private finest.
Buchanan, 29, a former Queen’s College discipline hockey participant now dwelling and coaching in San Francisco, broke the two:40 barrier for the primary time in her profession.
Prime 10 Canadian males
Brian Putre 2:31:44 (366th OA)
Bryan Rusche 2:32:13 (393th) – twelfth in M45-49 age group
Dominic Royer 2:33:47 (475th)
Neal Parker 2:34:18 (514th)
Daniel Lennington 2:34:32 (528th)
Chris Hooper 2:35:06 (559th)
Keith Johnstone 2:36:14 (527th)
Chris van de Water 2:36:28 (641st)
Luiz Melendez 2:36:56 (687th)
Connor Hammond 2:39:15 (956th)
Prime 10 Canadian girls
Carolyn Buchanan 2:39:38 (thirty ninth Feminine) – fifteenth in W30-34 age group
Julie Lajeunesse 2:46:29 (69th) – seventh in W40-44 age group
Kim Bennett 2:47:53 (86th)
Alannah MacLean 2:48:32 (93rd)
Nadine Robinson 2:50:15 (117th)
Jenny Bulk 2:51:23 (133rd) – sixth in W45-49 age group
Gabriella Lo 2:53:07 (154th)
Alanna McRae 2:53:09 (156th)
Camille Maltais-Bilodeau 2:55:19 (208th)
Rebecca Pieterson 2:55:23 (212th)
Prime Canadian age groupers *
Ercole Guidi 4:07:38 (4th in W75)
Jill Stevenson 3:35:53 (fifth in W70)
Jenny Bulk 2:51:23 (sixth in W45)
Julie Lajeunesse 2:46:39 (seventh in W40)
Kevin Smith 2:42:56 (eighth in M55)
Linda Eng 3:22:32 (eighth in W60)
Bryan Rusche 3:32:13 (twelfth in M45)
Carolyn Buchanan 2:39:38 (fifteenth in W55)
Rosie van Aspert 3:55:44 (fifteenth in W65)
(*We acknowledge those that positioned within the high 15 of their age group.)
You can head right here to take a look at the total 2024 Berlin Marathon outcomes.