The Toronto Waterfront Marathon is an annual marathon held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in October. The race day also includes a half marathon and 5 km race. The race has quickly become an elite level marathon and is one of just five IAAF Gold Label marathons in North America. At the 2013 edition of the race, race winnerDeressa Chimsa broke the men's course record with the fastest marathon ever recorded on Canadian soil. In the 2011 edition of the race, race winner Koren Jelela Yal broke the women's course record with the fastest marathon ever recorded on Canada soil. Canadian runner Ed Whitlock set multiple age groupworld records at the Waterfront Marathon, including a record in the 75 to 79 age group with a time of 3:08:35 in 2006, and a record in the 85 to 89 age group with a time of 3:56:33 in 2016. In the 2018 race, Cam Levins broke Jerome Drayton's 43-year-old Canadian men's national record for the marathon, finishing fourth in 2:09:25, a 44-second improvement on the previous mark set by Drayton in 1975. It was announced on July 13, 2020, that the 2020 on-street race event set for October 18, 2020, was cancelled due to concerns surrounding the global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, although virtual races will be held instead from October 1 to 31 2020 instead.
Past winners
Key:
Edition
Year
Men's winner
Time
Women's winner
Time
1st
2000
2:19:41.4
3:08:38.2
2nd
2001
2:45:20.8
3:07:10.1
3rd
2002
2:25:24.5
2:37:56.4
4th
2003
2:17:50.0
2:36:19.5
5th
2004
2:14:50.0
2:36:31.9
6th
2005
2:11:56.5
2:36:30.8
7th
2006
2:10:14.6
2:34:31.7
8th
2007
2:09:30.0
2:33:15.7
9th
2008
2:11:00.9
2:29:05.9
10th
2009
2:08:31.9
2:28:30.4
11th
2010
2:07:57.1
2:22:42.8
12th
2011
2:09:49.0
2:22:42.5
13th
2012
2:10:35.8
2:28:55.4
14th
2013
2:07:04.8
2:25:13.0
15th
2014
2:08:15
2:23:15
16th
2015
2:09:00
2:23:37
17th
2016
2:08:26
2:25:16
18th
2017
2:06:52
2:28:20
19th
2018
2:07:24
2:22:28
20th
2019
2:05:00
2:22:16
Charities
The Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon has successfully raised millions of dollars for charity since its inception. The largest charity attending the marathon for the past three years has been the Engineers Without Borders organization, which uses donations from the marathon for its Run to End Poverty initiative.
