It used to be rainy and drizzly at the path at Monday’s 127th operating of the Boston Marathon, and the day introduced a couple of surprises: global report holder Eliud Kipchoge didn’t carry out in addition to anticipated, completing 6th in 2:09:23 because the protecting champion, Evans Chebet of Kenya, took the win in 2:05:54. Hellen Obiri, additionally of Kenya, received the ladies’s race in simplest her 2d marathon (regardless that this used to be now not completely surprising, bearing in mind she is a a couple of gold medallist in quite a lot of disciplines within the observe and go nation).

In spite of there being few Canadians within the elite box this yr, Canadians post some spectacular instances in difficult stipulations; the quickest Canadian guy used to be Calum (Cal) Neff, a former Canadian 50K report holder and a couple of marathon stroller global report holder. Neff completed as fortieth male (forty fifth within the M18-39 age workforce) in 2:22:11. Steven Lawrence used to be the second one quickest, in 2:28:40, profitable the M45-49 age workforce, and Dennis Mbelenzi used to be 3rd in 2:28:58, eleventh within the M40-44 class. 

Liza Howard used to be the quickest Canadian girl, completing in 2:40:14 for thirty seventh amongst ladies 18-39; Carmen Hussar used to be subsequent, forty first feminine in 2:45:01 (and profitable W45-49), and Julie Lajeunesse used to be forty second feminine in 2:45:41 and 5th in W40-44. All 3 raced within the professional box.

Most sensible Canadian age-groupers

For the remainder Canadians, we’ve indexed those that completed within the most sensible 20 of their age class.

Males 40-44

(11. Dennis Mbelenzi 2:28:58)
13. David Savard-Gagnon 2:29:25

Ladies 40-44

4. Lynda Gingras 2:45:22
(5. Julie Lajeunesse 2:45:41)

Males 45-49

1. Steven Lawrence 2:28:40
2. Blaine Penny 2:30:37
3. Craig McMillan 2:31:15
9. Jeremy Deere 2:37:19
12. François Landry 2:38:13

Ladies 45-49

(1. Carmen Hussar 2:45:01)
3. Ana Fray 2:50:32
12. Melissa Raven 3:01:59
20. Angela Switt 3:06:15

Males 50-54

14. Kyle Aitken 2:43:15
20. Patrick Nadeau 2:47:13

Ladies 50-54

2. Agniezska Rogut 3:07:08

Males 55-59

14. Lawrence Warriner 2:55:03
17. Troy Cox 2:55:41
18. Jan Adegeest 2:55:43

Ladies 55-59

10. Liz Maguire 3:18:16

Males 60-64

5. Paul Huyer 2:56:24
9. Greg Shende 2:58:55
12. Walter Downey 3:00:27
13. Wayne Shuttleworth 3:01:09
14. Robert Campbell 3:01:22

Ladies 60-64

4. Linda Eng 3:21:09
15. Diane Doyon 3:31:35

Males 65-69

2. Bruce Grant 3:06:39
4. Derek Brenchley 3:08:01
14. Andrew Kilback 3:16:45

Ladies 65-69

1. Lucie Rochon 3:25:58
14. Odette Gélinas 3:48:10
20. Rose Van Aspert 3:56:34

Ladies 70-74

1. Sandy Rutledge 3:22:22
3. F. Deborah Macdonald-McGee 4:05:35
4. Barbara Freedman 4:06:50

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