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An estimated 10,000 runners were not to be dissuaded from hitting the streets for the 46th Manitoba Marathon on Sunday, even with overnight rains that threatened to throw damper on the festivities.
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Despite an extreme weather warning due to overnight lightning and heavy rain which was lifted at 6:15 a.m., the rain stopped 15 minutes prior to the 7 a.m., scheduled start of the Full Marathon and first wave of the Half Marathon.
Andrew Taylor from the U.S., placed first in the 42-kilometer Manitoba Marathon, in an unofficial time of 2:32:51. Winnipegger Dawn Neal won the women’s event for the second year in a row with a time of 2:53:51.
Meanwhile, Canadian record holder and soon-to-be three-time Olympian Cameron Levins of Black Creek, B.C., and two-time Olympian and Canadian Marathon record holder Natasha Wodak of Surrey, B.C., took the top titles at the Canadian Half Marathon Championships Sunday morning.
Levins, who also won in 2022 in Manitoba Half Marathon record time of 1:03:24 and is headed to Paris this summer to compete in the Olympics, took first place in the male category while Wodak finished first in the female category.
The national finals was hosted by the Manitoba Marathon, the final time it was host the event.
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