It was once an inauspicious arrival in Toronto for newly-crowned TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon champion Elvis Kipchoge Cheboi, who misplaced an afternoon of shuttle after a overlooked flight, then needed to care for a 4:30 a.m. fireplace alarm within the elite resort, however none of that looked as if it would faze the 27-year-old Kenyan, profitable in a decisive way at Sunday’s marathon in a non-public easiest time of two:09:20.
Adugna Takele Bikila of Ethiopia, who was once the top-seeded runner, completed 2nd, in 2:10:26, with Alfred Kipchirchir Mukche of Kenya completing 3rd in 2:10:56.
Elvis Kipchoge 🇰🇪 is your 2023 @TOwaterfront42k CHAMPION 🥇
2:09:20!!#ChooseTORun percent.twitter.com/NntIFJQsnt
— Canadian Operating (@CanadianRunning) October 15, 2023
From early within the race, the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon was once a duel between Cheboi and Kipchirchir, cruising alongside the path of their contrasting darkish (Cheboi) and lightweight (Kipchirchir) singlets, till the hairpin turnaround within the east-end Seaside neighbourhood, when Cheboi surged forward and not seemed again.
This was once handiest Cheboi’s 2nd marathon, having debuted on the Vienna Marathon previous this yr, the place he completed 7th in 2:10:21.
“For me, profitable Toronto is a large fulfillment,” mentioned Cheboi on his end result. “I’m more than happy I advanced on my time (from Vienna) these days.”
Cheboi’s splits
5K 14:45
10K 29:32
15K 44:24
20K 59:19
21.1K 01:02:33
30K 01:29:28
35K 01:44:50
40K 02:01:17
End 02:09:20
Best 10 males
- Elvis Kipchoge Cheboi KEN 2:09:20
- Adugna Takele Bikila ETH 2:10:26
- Alfred Kipchirchir Mukche KEN 2:10:56
- Yohans Mekasha ETH 2:13:47
- Jesus Eduardo Aggi Bencomo MEX 2:13:55
- Thomas Broatch CAN 2:16:25
- Orlando Casillas Velazquez MEX 2:18:11
- Benjamin Raymond CAN 2:20:15
- Sergio Ráez Villanueva CAN 2:20:48
- Alejandro Sanchez Viveros MEX 2:21:13
Broatch wins Canadian males’s identify in debut
Thomas Broatch of Vancouver took the Canadian males’s identify in marathon debut in 2:16:25. Broatch ran by myself for lots of the race, having surged forward of Sergio Ráez Villanueva at midway, with whom he had traded the lead for the primary part of the race. Broatch is coming off a win on the Vancouver Eastside 10K, the place he beat three-time Toronto champion and former Canadian Marathon Champion Trevor Hofbauer, who didn’t race on Sunday. Benjamin Raymond completed as the second one Canadian guy, in 2:20:15, with Ráez Villanueva rounding out the Canadian podium, completing in 2:20:48, making improvements to on his fourth-place end in 2022.
Josh Cassidy lowers path document in wheelchair race
For the second one yr in a row, Canadian Josh Cassidy gained the boys’s wheelchair race, taking down his personal path document via greater than a minute and crossing the road in 1:38:14 (unofficial). Cassidy is a former global document holder; this was once his 3rd marathon in 4 weeks.