High Canadian finishers on the 2025 London Marathon

For the second 12 months in a row, the TCS London Marathon noticed the women-only world file damaged, with Olympic silver medallist and former world file holder Tigst Assefa breaking the tape in 2:15:50. Within the males’s area, rising Kenyan star Sabastian Sawe clocked the second-fastest successful time in London Marathon historical past (2:02:27) to earn his first marathon main title, beating a stacked males’s area that includes world file holders and Olympic champions.

Though there have been no Canadian elites within the 2025 London Marathon area, a number of runners within the mass race recorded spectacular private bests and notable age-category placements.

The quickest Canadian male finisher was Mitchel Dreise of Ingersoll, Ont., who ran a private finest of two:27:35 to position 108th general. Dreise shaved a number of minutes off his earlier finest and is about to line up on the 2025 Ottawa Marathon subsequent month. Within the ladies’s area, Carolyn Buchanan of Moorefield, Ont., was the highest Canadian finisher, crossing the road in 2:36:27 to knock three minutes off her earlier finest. Buchanan’s robust efficiency additionally earned her a top-10 end within the ladies’s 18-39 age class.

High 10 Canadian ladies

1. Carolyn Buchanan 2:36:27 (eighth in mass area, seventh in W18-39)
2. Julie Lajeunesse 2:47:50 (tenth in W40-44)
3. Anna Hope Emerson 2:51:03 
4. Laurel Buchanan 2:51:53
5. Cynthia Chen 2:53:02
6. Katie Gordon 2:57:43
7. Ellen Mulholland 3:04:33
8. Shawni Hnatiuk 3:05:19
9. Victoria Ryan 3:06:49
10. Jeni Halowski 3:07:56

High 10 Canadian males

1. Mitchel Dreise 2:27:35 (108th general, 89th in M18-39) 
2. Bryan Rusche 2:31:48 (2nd in M50-54)
3. Justin Peroff 2:40:34
4. Matthew Cormier 2:44:05
5. Imran Khoja 2:44:15
6. Martin Sirois 2:45:18
7. Nicholas Thomas 2:48:02
8. Aaron Brown 2:51:39
9. Geoff Bezruchko 2:52:51
10. Nathan McKinnon 2:54:26

High Canadian age groupers*

Males

Bryan Rusche 2:31:48 – 2nd in M50-54

Girls

Carolyn Buchanan 2:36:27 – seventh in W18-39
Julie Lajeunesse 2:47:50 – tenth in W40-44
Yan Ma 3:37:10 – twelfth in W60-64
Gayle Robinson 5:21:36 – fifth in W75-79

*We acknowledge those that positioned within the prime 20 of their age class.

You may head right here to take a look at the total 2025 TCS London Marathon outcomes.

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