The Toronto Waterfront Marathon is an annual
marathon
The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of , usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There are also wheelchair div ...
held in
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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,
Canada
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in October. The race day also includes a half marathon and 5 km race.
The race has quickly become an elite level marathon and is one of just five
World Athletics Gold Label Road Race marathons in North America. At the 2013 edition of the race, race winner
Deressa Chimsa
Deressa Chimsa Edae (born 21 November 1976) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who competes in marathon races. He represented Ethiopia in the event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. His personal best of 2:05:42 hours was set at the ...
broke the men's course record with the fastest marathon ever recorded on Canadian soil. In the 2011 edition of the race, race winner
Koren Jelela Yal broke the women's course record with the fastest marathon ever recorded on Canada soil. Canadian runner
Ed Whitlock
Ed Whitlock (March 6, 1931 – March 13, 2017) was an English-born Canadian long-distance runner, and the first person over 70 years old to run a marathon in less than three hours, with a time of 2:59:10 in 2003.
Whitlock, who ran as a teenage ...
set multiple age group world records at the Waterfront Marathon, including a record in the 75 to 79 age group with a time of 3:08:35 in 2006,
and a record in the 85 to 89 age group with a time of 3:56:33 in 2016.
In the 2018 race,
Cam Levins
Cameron Levins (born March 28, 1989) is a Canadian long-distance runner. He won the bronze medal in the 10,000 meters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Levins had the best-Canadian finish ever of fourth in the marathon at the 2022 World Champi ...
broke
Jerome Drayton
Jerome Drayton (born January 10, 1945 in Kolbermoor, Bavaria, Germany) is a former long-distance runner who competed internationally for Canada. He was born as Peter Buniak in Germany, and came to Canada in the mid-1950s when his mother moved the ...
's 43-year-old
Canadian men's national record for the marathon, finishing fourth in 2:09:25, a 44-second improvement on the previous mark set by Drayton in 1975.
The 2020 in-person race was cancelled due to concerns surrounding the global
COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic (as was the case for the May 2020
Goodlife Fitness Toronto Marathon event), although virtual races were to be held instead from October 1 to 31 2020 instead.
Winners
![Lyubov Morgunova](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Lyubov_Morgunova.jpg)
Key:
Multiple wins
By country
Charities
The Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon has successfully raised millions of dollars for charity since its inception. The largest charity attending the marathon for the past three years has been the
Engineers Without Borders
The term Engineers Without Borders (EWB; french: Ingénieurs sans frontières, ISF) is used by a number of non-governmental organizations in various countries to describe their activity based on engineering and oriented to international development ...
organization, which uses donations from the marathon for its Run to End Poverty initiative.
See also
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List of marathon races in North America
The following is a list of marathon races in North America.
Legend
The criteria for whether a marathon receives an IAAF Label designation are based on six general issues: race organisation, course timing and measurement, media services, quality ...
References
;List of winners
Toronto Waterfront Marathon Association of Road Racing Statisticians
The Association of Road Racing Statisticians is an independent, non-profit organization that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics regarding road running races. The primary purpose of the ARRS is to maintain a valid list of world road record ...
(2011-10-18). Retrieved on 2011-10-23.
External links
Official Website
{{IAAF Gold Label
Marathons in Canada
Sports competitions in Toronto
Recurring sporting events established in 2000
2000 establishments in Ontario
Fall events in Canada