Noah Kipkemboi

The 2026 TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon – a World Athletics Elite Label race and the Athletics Canada Canadian Marathon Championships — is on Sunday, October 18 in Toronto. 🏃‍♂️ MEN: Defending champion Leonard Langat 🇰🇪 (2:08:04 winner last year) returns with a new 2:05:26 PB from Cape Town. He’ll face 2025 runner-up Noah Kipkemboi 🇰🇪, 2023 champion and reigning Ottawa winner Elvis Cheboi 🇰🇪, unbeaten Fanny Kiprotich 🇰🇪 (2-for-2 in the marathon, 2:06:53 in Vienna), and Ethiopia’s Dinkalem Ayele and Gizealew Ayana. The course record is 2:05:00 (Philemon Rono, 2019). 🏃‍♀️ WOMEN: Ayinadis Teshome 🇪🇹 (2:20:51) and Maritu Ketema 🇪🇹 (2:21:52) are taking aim at Waganesh Mekasha’s 2:20:44 course record. Beatrice Cheserek 🇰🇪 and 2025 runner-up Betty Chepkorir 🇰🇪 are also in the field. Ethiopian women have won 7 of the last 10 editions. 🇨🇦 CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS: Thomas Broatch (2:10:35) and Tristan Woodfine (2:10:39), the 10th- and 11th-fastest Canadians ever, lead the men. They’ll be chased by Tokyo Olympic steeplechase finalist John Gay, Lee Wesselius, and debutants Andrew Davies, Connor Black and Jeremy Coughler. Defending champion Rachel Hannah takes on 2019 champion and Olympian Dayna Pidhoresky, with Florence Caron and Cleo Boyd making their marathon debuts. Kristian Jamieson, great-great-grandson of Tom Longboat, is chasing his ancestor’s 1907 Boston winning time of 2:24:24. 💰 $25,000 to the winners, plus time and course-record bonuses. $8,000 to each Canadian champion. Race starts at 8 a.m. ET FOLLOW CITIUS MAG ▶ Subscribe to the podcast: https://apple.co/3Byp72I ▶ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/CitiusMag ▶ On Instagram: http://instagram.com/citiusmag ▶ On Facebook: http://facebook.com/citiusmag ▶ Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/citiusmag ▶ On our website: http://citiusmag.com