2011 ScotiaBank Toronto Marathon: Kenneth Mungara 4-peats! , Coolsaet, Gillis Make Canadian Olympic Standard, by Larry Eder

Kenneth Mungara wins two steps over Shami Dawit, in 2:09:51, 2011 ScotiaBankToronto Marathon, photo by PhotoRun.net

Reid Coolsaet, third place, 2:10:55, 2011 ScotiaBank Toronto Marathon,
photo by PhotoRun.net

Eric Gillis, fourth, 2:11.28, 2011 ScotiaBank Toronto Marathon,
photo by PhotoRun.net

Reid Coolsaet, Eric Gillis both make Canadian Olympic team!
2011 ScotiaBank Toronto Marathon,
photo by PhotoRun.net

Koren Yal, Ethiopia, 2:22:43, takes the 2011 ScotiaBank Toronto Marathon,
photo by PhotoRun.net

Ed Whitlock, 80 years young, 3:15:01, 2011 ScotiaBank Toronto Marathon,
photo by PhotoRun.net

Fauja Singh, 100 years young, 8:25:18, 2011 ScotiaBank Toronto Marathon,
photo by PhotoRun.net

That Kenneth Mungara won the 2011 ScotiaBank Toronto Marathon for the fourth time, by two steps over Shami Dawit. In third place, Reid Coolsaet ran a fine 2:10:55, which was complicated by a fifteen second, at least, bathroom break, that he took at 25k. This writer believes, a forty-six second difference, between Jerome Drayton’s 2:10:09 Canadian record and Reid’s time today, was due to that bathroom break. So, the oldest record in Canadian Track & Field, now in its thirty-fifth year, will continue.

Eric Gillis, in fourth place, charged under the Canadian Olympic qualifying standard of 2:11:29 by one second! One second! Look at him charging down the straight, focused on one thing, getting that standard. And with that second, Eric Gillis joins Reid Coolsaet on the Olympic team for Canada. They will be Olympians! Eric was thirty-third in the Beijing 10,000m final.

At the age of 80, Ed Whitlock not only finished the marathon, running 3:15:01, a time that runners half his age jealous!

And, in the record books, Fauja Singh, 100 years old, became the oldest finisher in a marathon, running 8:25:18.

To get the complete story on the 2011 ScotiaBank Toronto Marathon, please read the following story by Paul Gains:http://www.torontowaterfrontmarathon.com/en/news/2011_10_16.htm

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Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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