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Posted: September 26, 2004 Athletics: 73 Year-old Ed Whitlock Runs 2:54:48 at Toronto Marathon
Toronto, ON September 26, 2004: Milton's Ed Whitlock smashed his 70+ age-group marathon record with a scintillating 2:54:48 performance at this morning's Toronto Waterfront Marathon. Whitlock, who is the only 70 year-old to ever break three hours for the marathon distance ran 2:59:10 last year on the same course. Under ideal race condiditons, Whitlock ran a negative split as he went through 21K in 1:27:30. On September 12th he ran a new world best of 37:33 for 10K at the Toronto Island 10K Run. Today's marathon was won by Danny Kassap of Toronto in a time of 2:14:50.0. The top woman was Lioudmila Kortchaguina in 2:36:31. Complete results are available from SportStats Comment on this story. |
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