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Toronto Waterfront Marathon

Road Races and Marathons

The Toronto Waterfront Marathon is a road-running race held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, every year on the second or third Sunday of October. Besides the full marathon, the event includes a half-marathon, and from 2024 the organizers added a 5K race on the Saturday, with the marathon and half-marathon on Sunday. It is considered Canada's most prestigious road race and also serves as the nation's time-trial event during Olympic cycles. The race is one of the elite label marathons in the World Athletics Label Road Races. It has produced several notable marks: the 2013 winner Deressa Chimsa set a men's course record that was the fastest marathon ever run on Canadian soil, the 2011 winner Koren Jelela Yal set the women's course record, Ed Whitlock set multiple age-group world records there, and in 2018 Cam Levins broke Jerome Drayton's 43-year-old Canadian men's marathon record. The in-person 2020 race was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic and replaced by virtual races.

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Frequency
Frequency (category)
Annual 1
Classification
Scope
National 1
Founding Year
2000 1
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Competitors Include

Ed Whitlock, Athletes
Source Ed Whitlock (Wikipedia)

Features

Athletics, Sports
Source Toronto Waterfront Marathon (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Toronto Waterfront Marathon (Wikipedia)
  • Lead, first paragraph
    held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, every year in the second or third Sunday of October
  • Lead, first paragraph [scope]
    is considered Canada's most prestigious road race
  • Infobox: est
    2000
  • Features: Athletics, Lead, second paragraph
    The race is one of the elite label marathons in the World Athletics Label Road Races.
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Ed Whitlock (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Ed Whitlock, Lead
Quote, Competitors Include: Ed Whitlock, Lead
3:56:34 at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon
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