The 2014 Kamloops Marathon is in the books and the numbers indicate another successful event with participation up nearly 100 from last year.
In its third year, the event is a fundraiser for TRU’s cross country running program and in addition to assisting with travel costs to and from races, money will help create bursaries for athletes to offset the cost of tuition and books.
Organizers are still determining how much was raised for the program and in the meantime, here is a by-the-numbers snapshot of the July 27 Kamloops Marathon
473 entries
86 in the marathon
196 in the half marathon
127 in the 8km
45 in the 3km
5 marathon relay teams
96 more registrations than last year’s 377
Winners
Men’s marathon: Tatsuya Hatachi, 2 hours, 52 minutes, 39 seconds
Women’s marathon: Rika Hatachi, 3:14:53
Men’s half marathon: Ryan Pidhirniak, 1:19:15 (TRU Business student and cross country running team member)
Women’s half marathon: Rachel Lobay, 1:30:59 (TRU 2014 Ambassador’s Entrance Scholarship recipient)
Men’s 8km: Bryce Turner, 29 minutes, 21 seconds
Women’s 8km: Karla Griffin, 36:08
Marathon relay winning team: Thompson Rivers University, 3:37:48 (Kristina Mitchell, Jon Shepard, Christopher Seguin, Michael Benoit)
Fastest Kamloops marathon entries (male) Richard Block, 3:24:41 and (female) Kathryn Kuzemchuk, 4:15:26
2 winners more than running mates: The marathon winners are husband and wife
About 100 volunteers making the event happen and cheering participants on
2 winners of tickets for 2: Patrick Stobie and Barry Hopkins each won airfare for two to Boston courtesy of Air Canada and TRAVELWISE
More information
Christopher Seguin
250-574-0474
