Welcome to the marathon 👋 Florence Caron 🇨🇦 finishes tenth in her debut at the 2026 Toronto Waterfront Marathon, hanging on in a tough second half to run 2:29:37 and finish second Canadian. The Québécois 25-year-old is just a year removed from running cross country at Penn State and now she’s officially a marathoner!

Getting pretty good at this marathoning thing 😅 Wesley Kiptoo 🇺🇸 finishes sixth at the 2026 Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 2:08:08, the fastest time of his career on a record-eligible course. Together with his 2:07:55 from Boston this spring, U.S. Half Marathon title, and appearances at both World XC and the World Road Running Championships, Kiptoo has absolutely crushed his first year competing as an American.

IT’S HER DAY 🤩 At 39 years old, Dayna Pidhoresky 🇨🇦 runs the best marathon of her career, taking three minutes off her seven-year-old PB to claim top Canadian honors at the 2026 Toronto Waterfront Marathon, finishing eighth overall in 2:26:02 to become the third fastest Canadian of all time at the distance.

ROCKIN’ DEBUT 🔥 25-year-old Andrew Davies 🇨🇦 crushes his marathon debut, finishing ninth overall at the 2026 Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 2:08:48, claiming top Canadian honors in his first go at the distance and landing at #4 on the Canadian all-time list, becoming just the seventh sub-2:10 Canadian ever.

EXECUTED TO PERFECTION 💯 Leah Jeruto 🇰🇪 wins the 2026 Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 2:21:19, cruising to the win and a new lifetime best thanks to a slight negative split of 70:55-70:24 and beating out runner-up Nigsti Haftu 🇪🇹 by 15 seconds.

RUN IT BACK 🔁 Leonard Langat 🇰🇪 defends his title at the 2026 Toronto Waterfront Marathon, taking a minute off his winning time from last year to claim the victory in 2:06:51, 40 seconds up on runner-up Asbel Rutto 🇰🇪.

🗣️ “Maybe 40 is like the superpower when you feel like you’re approaching the end of your best years running, so for me it’s a good time to be fully dialed in. You don’t know when your last race is gonna be.” Dayna Pidhoresky had superpowers today on the streets of Toronto, as she took three minutes off a PB that had stood since 2019 with her 2:26:02 eighth-place finish at the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon.

Leah Jeruto comes just short of the course record, but still takes a commanding win in Toronto in 2:21:29! TCS TORONTO MARATHON LIVE BROADCAST: piped.video/live/c-KyiNTcNQw…

BACK-✌️-BACK IN TORONTO FOR LEONARD LANGAT! 2:06:51! TCS TORONTO MARATHON LIVE BROADCAST: piped.video/live/c-KyiNTcNQw…

The hardest part of a marathon debut: the bottle stations, apparently 😂 Despite having two separate bottle mishaps, Andrew Davies is crushing the Canadian field in Toronto and is on pace for the fastest debut in Canadian history. The 25-year-old is on 2:08:36 pace through 35K. TCS TORONTO MARATHON LIVE BROADCAST: piped.video/live/c-KyiNTcNQw…

There’s still a BIG pack in the race for the men’s crown at the Toronto Marathon, with the top six runners separated by just. a single second. That’s a half-dozen guys sub-2:07 pace through 35K! TCS TORONTO MARATHON BROADCAST: piped.video/live/c-KyiNTcNQw…

Some CHAOS in the race for the Canadian men’s title at the 25K bottle station, as debutant Andrew Davies misses a bottle and has to double back a few times to grab it. Was that worth the time to make sure he could get his fuel? We’ll find out over the next 45 minutes. TCS TORONTO MARATHON LIVE BROADCAST: piped.video/live/c-KyiNTcNQw…

Dayna Pidhoresky looks to be running away with the Canadian marathon title this morning in Toronto, as the vet is well under PB pace and through half in 1:13:24. Her current best of 2:29:03 was run at this race back in 2019. TCS TORONTO MARATHON LIVE BROADCAST: piped.video/live/c-KyiNTcNQw…

🗣️ “I hope to finish! It’s the first one, so I feel like you need multiple goals and the first one is to just do it.” @_EricJenkins caught up with exciting Canadian marathon debutant Florence Caron ahead of today’s Toronto Marathon. Caron is through 10K in 34:52, cruising along on sub-2:26 pace. If this pace holds, she would already slot into the ranks of the three fastest Canadian women ever. TCS TORONTO MARATHON LIVE BROADCAST: piped.video/live/c-KyiNTcNQw…

HAPPENING NOW - The livestream is up for Sunday's @TOwaterfront42k is up at piped.video/watch?v=AUpAl3Fx… with @ChrisChavez, @WightmanGeoff, @kristaduchene, and @KatieVB -

🔴 WATCH LIVE: 2026 TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon 🇨🇦 piped.video/live/c-KyiNTcNQw…

🗣️ “I’m gonna look back at this as a miracle.” 🙏 In case you missed it: 🇺🇸 Clayton Young joined me to recap his 2:05:23 personal best and top American finish at the 2026 Chicago Marathon. There was a lot of risk and concern over what it could mean for his 2027 or 2028, if things got worse. He and his wife, Ashley, turned to their faith and kept in check with doctors and coach Ed Eyestone to keep moving forward day-by-day. He hadn’t talked about this side of his buildup publicly until now. FULL INTERVIEW ⬇️ 🎧 APPLE PODCASTS: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… 🎧 SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/06G…

Tokyo Olympic 800m champion Athing Mu-Nikolayev and her husband Yegor are expecting their first child.

College Sports Goes Global 🌍 "Until Congress passes comprehensive legislation establishing a clearer framework for the unique circumstances of college sports, the NCAA will remain a strange, inconsistent smorgasbord of ever-evolving recruiting and compliance policies. But even a clearer playing field won’t necessarily make U.S. colleges any less attractive to international athletes. The NCAA is the best in the world at developing talent and it’s no question that many would seize the opportunity to train at elite institutions with state-of-the-art facilities." 📫 Read more via @TheLapCount: thelapcount.substack.com/i/2…

Sharon The Wealth 💸 "Lokedi’s reward for switching it up (aside from what was surely a generous appearance fee and prize money) is that she’s now inarguably among the five best women marathoners of the current era. Stepping back, it’s a pretty wild career trajectory for the 2018 NCAA champion at Kansas who spent the first 3-4 years of her pro career hammering away at the track and short roads with no real breakthrough." 📫 Read more via @TheLapCount: thelapcount.substack.com/i/2…