What a yr it’s been for Canadian athletics. From January via December 2025, athletes from throughout the nation delivered breakthrough performances on each the nationwide and international phases, making Canada proud. Narrowing these moments down was no straightforward activity, however these standout achievements finest seize the excellence of this yr in Canadian working.
10. Wyatt Lee smashes highschool 100m document
For Kingston, Ont.’s Wyatt Lee, 2025 was a yr of record-breaking. On the OFSAA Monitor & Subject Championships in June, the 17-year-old clocked 10.38 seconds within the senior boys’ 100m closing to smash a 31-year-old Canadian interscholastic document and the U18 Canadian document. The earlier mark of 10.41 seconds was set by 1996 Olympic gold medallist Carlton Chambers.
It was the third time that season that Lee had damaged the U18 100m Canadian document; he additionally set a brand new U18 60m document in March, working 6.71 seconds.
9. Rachel Hannah wins her first Canadian marathon title
At October’s TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon, which doubled because the Canadian Marathon Championships, Rachel Hannah of Port Elgin, Ont., ran 2:33:47 to grow to be the primary Canadian finisher, claiming her sixth nationwide title, and her first within the marathon.
The run additionally marked her quickest marathon since 2016.
8. Philippe Morneau-Cartier completes U Sports activities XC hat trick
At November’s 2025 U Sports activities Cross-Nation Championships in Quebec, Université Laval’s Philippe Morneau-Cartier made historical past by efficiently finishing the U Sports activities hat trick, profitable the person championship title for 3 straight years.
Morneau-Cartier lined the 8K course in 23:14 to carry off the sector by a five-second margin, marking his third consecutive undefeated season on the U Sports activities XC stage.
7. Charles Philibert-Thiboutot will get 10K document in debut
Making his Canadian 10K Championships debut, Quebec two-time Olympian Charles Philibert-Thiboutot broke the nationwide 10K highway document by three seconds, clocking 28:06 to win his first nationwide 10K title. He additionally smashed his earlier 10K private finest by 46 seconds.
The previous mark of 28:09 was set by Ben Flanagan on the similar occasion in 2024.
6. Savannah Sutherland breaks NCAA 400m hurdles document
At June’s NCAA Out of doors Championships in Eugene, Ore., Savannah Sutherland surprised Hayward Subject with a 52.46-second run within the 400m hurdles, shattering Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s former NCAA collegiate document of 52.75.
The victory marked her second nationwide title and her third straight top-two end within the occasion, and stamped her identify in 4 document books: College of Michigan, collegiate, NCAA Championship and Canadian nationwide.
5. Rory Linkletter runs second-fastest Canadian marathon in Boston
At April’s Boston Marathon, Rory Linkletter had the race of his life, ending sixth, with a private finest of two:07:02. The run surpassed his top-10 aim, marking each the quickest time by a Canadian in Boston and the second-fastest time ever run by a Canadian.
Linkletter has since lowered his private finest, putting ninth on the Chicago Marathon in October in 2:06:49.
4. Marco Arop wins world 800m bronze on his twenty seventh birthday
Edmonton’s Marco Arop delivered Canada’s first observe medal of the 2025 World Athletics Championships, incomes bronze within the males’s 800m in 1:41.95 on his twenty seventh birthday. In an exciting race, Arop completed lower than a tenth of a second behind Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya, who claimed gold.
The efficiency extends Arop’s streak of podium finishes on the worldwide stage: gold on the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, silver on the 2024 Paris Olympics, and bronze on the 2022 Worlds in Eugene.
3. Malindi Elmore breaks males’s & ladies’s 45+ marathon data
In Valencia, Spain, in early December, 45-year-old Malindi Elmore ran 2:24:53, to solely demolishing the ladies’s Canadian 45+ masters document by a whopping 14 minutes, but in addition beating the lads’s 45+ mark, by 36 seconds. The efficiency marked Elmore’s third-fastest marathon and the fourth-fastest ladies’s marathon by a Canadian, trailing solely her personal faster occasions and Natasha Wodak’s nationwide document.
2. Gabriela DeBues-Stafford cements comeback in worlds 1,500m closing
For Gabriela DeBues-Stafford, 2025 was a yr of redemption. After lacking out on qualifying for the 2024 Olympics in each the 1,500m and 5,000m, DeBues-Stafford made her return to Staff Canada for the primary time since 2021, incomes a spot on the planet championship 1,500m closing. Nevertheless it didn’t finish there; within the closing, the 30-year-old stormed to her quickest time since 2022, clocking 3:59.65–not only a season’s finest, however the quickest time by a Canadian girl since 2022.
1. Evan Dunfee wins world race stroll gold
At his seventh world championship, Canadian race stroll document holder Evan Dunfee made historical past on the World Championships in Tokyo, profitable 35K gold in 2:28:22. He did it regardless of tearing his hamstring with two km to go, pushing via excruciating ache for the ultimate stretch–in addition to battling 25 C temperatures and 94 per cent humidity–to grow to be the primary champion of Tokyo 2025.
