It’s official–Canada’s quickest marathoner, Cam Levins, has signed a sponsorship take care of the Japanese sporting model Asics.
The two:07 marathoner spent your entire 2022 season unsponsored, after leaving Hoka in late-2021. His fourth-place end within the males’s marathon on the 2022 World Athletics Championships was the best end by a Canadian within the males’s marathon at a significant championship within the IAAF/World Athletics period.
Levins’s time of two:07:09 shattered his earlier Canadian marathon file of two:09:25 from the 2018 Toronto Waterfront Marathon.
The 33-year-old continued his string of strong performances earlier this month when he smashed the Canadian half marathon file by 42 seconds on the Vancouver First Half, working 60:18. This was the primary time a Canadian runner has gone underneath the 61-minute mark over 21.1 kilometres.
Levins is on the elite checklist for the 2023 Tokyo Marathon on March 5, and indicated to Kate Van Buskirk on Canadian Working’s The Shakeout Podcast that he’s “prepared for one thing actually particular there.”
“I’m excited to go again to Japan for one more alternative to compete in a significant marathon,” Levins mentioned on Instagram.
The final time Levins was in Japan, it was for the 2020 Olympic marathon in Sapporo, the place he ended up ending a disappointing 72nd. “The Olympics have been a low level for me,” Levins mentioned in an August 2022 interview. “I felt I used to be proper there, however I noticed I used to be thus far behind one of the best on the planet.”
The boys’s discipline for Tokyo options 9 sub-2:05 runners, together with 2022 Amsterdam champion Tsegay Getachew; London 2021 champion Sisay Lemma and his former coaching companion and Japanese 5,000m (and previously, marathon) file holder, Suguru Osako.
Levins at present lives and trains within the Portland, Ore. space, and is coached by Victoria’s Jim Finlayson.
