runner: Olympic runner Cam Levins broke the 43-year-old Canadian marathon record Sunday when he crossed Toronto's finish line in two hours nine minutes 25 seconds, according to The Toronto Star. The British Columbian runner says he used his debut race for practicing his pace. The 29-year-old from Black Creek, B.C. finished fourth in Sunday's Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon, but emerged as the main story by toppling one of the oldest records in Canadian running. Jerome Drayton ran 2 10 09 in Japan in 1975, so long ago that the average house in Toronto sold for 57,581. In 2015, Canadian veteran Reid Coolsaet targeted Drayton's mark on a record-friendly Berlin Marathon course and still fell 19 seconds short. That record survived 43 years and several serious attempts to lower it.
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