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Charles Philibert-Thiboutot won the 2025 Canadian 10K Championships in a new national record time. Meanwhile, Gracleyn Larkin won the national title in just her third road race.
Philibert-Thiboutot
Cameron Levins entered the 2025 Ottawa 10K with the second fastest Canadian time of 28:11, just two seconds back of current record holder, Ben Flanagan, who ran 28:09 at last year’s Ottawa 10K. Philibert-Thiboutot raced to a new national record time of 28:06 on Saturday.
Un record canadien pour Charles Philibert-Thiboutot à Ottawa https://t.co/qruVUKNrh8
— Radio-Canada Sports (@RC_Sports) May 25, 2025
Levins stepped on the gas early, and a pack of four, which also included Thomas Broatch and Andrew Alexander, hung on for as long as they could.
Levins finished second in 28:14 for second. Alexander finished in third place in a time of 28:17 to set a new personal best. Levins ran well considering he is coming back from a foot or heel injury. Seventeen finished under 30 minutes. Thirty-four finished sub-31.
Philibert-Thiboutot currently holds the national 2000m record of 4:51.54, which he set in Brussels in September 2023 during the Diamond League. It currently also stands as the North American record.
In 2022, the then 31-year-old ran the B.A.A. Boston 5K in a new record time of 13:35 to break Paul Williams’ Canadian record of 13:36 set in 1986. Flanagan has since improved the record with the 2023 running of that same Boston 5K clocking 13:26.
Gracelyn Larkin
Rousseau, Ontario’s Gracelyn Larkin, in just her third road race, won Saturday in the Canadian 10K Championships. She finished in a personal best time of 32:43. She has, however, run 32:32.61 on the track.
Kelowna, B.C.’s Malindi Elmore finished second in 33:01, while Hamilton, Ontario’s Erin Mawhinney settled for third place in 33:09.
Elmore offers online coaching under the name Win or Learn. For runners, old habits die hard. She went out hard — perhaps too hard — and hung on well, but was passed for good at 3K into the race. The three-time Olympian and multi-time national record holder is a former track athlete specializing in the 1500m. She set a personal best of 4:02.64 in 2004, long before super shoes. She has been consistent over her more than two-decade career, running just as well in the half-marathon and marathon (2:23:30) as she did as a middle-distance athlete.
Larkin, at age 24, has her career in front of her. The Northern Arizona University grad signed a professional contract with Under Armour six months ago.
Next up for Larkin is the Canadian 10,000m championships on June 18 in Guelph, Ontario.
