Posted: September 27, 2004

Athletics: Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon: One great course, one great city, three world records!

Sunday September 26, 12:35 pm ET

TORONTO, Sept. 26:

9,000 competitors, including three world record setting runners, helped make the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon one of North America's most exciting new marathons. More than $300,000 was raised for over 40 charities and the dollars are still coming in.

A very competitive field, featuring many elite athletes, participated in the marathon, half-marathon and 5 km races.

Canada's own Ed Whitlock, 73, broke his own world record, set at last year's event, becoming the fastest person over 70 to run a marathon, coming in at 02:54:48 (two hours, fifty-four minutes, forty-eight seconds).

93-year-old Fauja Singh, all the way from Ilford, U.K., broke the age category world record in the half marathon for the 90 to 95 age group, with a time of 02:30:02 (two hours, thirty minutes, two seconds).

Michal Kapral, a 32-year-old personal trainer from Toronto broke the Guinness World Record for marathon running while pushing a baby jogger. The pram pusher's record-breaking time was 02:49:43 (two hours, forty-nine minutes, forty-three seconds) which he achieved while pushing his 20-month old daughter Annike.

Listed below are the top finishers in each race.

	    Marathon Male
	    -------------
	    1. Danny Kassap               2:14:50        Toronto
	    2. Joseph Kahugu              2:17:02        Kenya
	    3. Joseph Nderitu             2:19:15        Kenya

	    Marathon Female
	    ---------------
	    1. Lioudmila Kortchaguina     2:36:32        Toronto
	    2. Tania Jones                2:48:07        Maple, ON
	    3. Liz Maguire                2:59:42        Osgoode, ON

	    Half-marathon Male
	    ------------------
	    1. Giitah Macharia            1:05:40        St. Catharines, ON
	    2. Abraham Kosger             1:05:42        Kenya
	    3. Bagdad Rechim              1:05:48        Algeria

	    Half-marathon Female
	    --------------------
	    1. Monica Hostetler           1:19:08        Rochester Hills, MI
	    2. Carly Graytock             1:19:36        Toronto
	    3. Jackie Rzepecki            1:20:42        Rochester Hills, MI

	    5 km Male
	    ---------
	    1. Matthew Leduc              15:49          Ajax, ON
	    2. Chris Van beurden          15:54          Toronto
	    3. Antony Maina Mwangi        16:08          Kenya

	    5 km Female
	    -----------
	    1. Suzette Taggart            19:26          Kingston, ON
	    2. Crystal Drummond           20:00          Richmond Hill, ON
	    3. Gail Zuill                 20:38          Toronto

The Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon is a registered AIMS Marathon, certified by Athletics Canada. For a complete list of race results, please visit www.torontowaterfrontmarathon.com.

This year, the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon has four featured charities - A Run for Liane at Sick Children's Hospital, Breast Cancer Society of Canada, Canadian Diabetes Association and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society: Team in Training - as well as 40 other official charities. Scotiabank will award $5,000 to the team with the greatest number of runners participating, $5,000 to the charity with the largest number of dollars pledged per runner, and $5,000 to the charity with the largest amount of pledges.