After ending as the highest Canadian marathoner on the 2023 World Athletics Championships in August, Rory Linkletter returned to the roads on U.S. Thanksgiving to compete on the historic Manchester Street Race in Connecticut. Linkletter was in competition for the win till the ultimate moments of the 7.6-kilometre race, in the end ending fourth, in 21:17.
Morgan Beadlescomb wins the Manchester Street Race pic.twitter.com/JWBomFXitJ
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Linkletter completed 5 seconds behind the champion, American middle-distance runner Morgan Beadlescomb, who patiently awaited his time to kick within the last 200 metres; Beadlescomb took the win in 21:12. Linkletter’s former college teammate, Conner Mantz, crossed the end line in second place, in 21:15, and Isai Rodriguez of Ringwood, Okla., rounded out the rostrum, ending one second forward of Linkletter for third.
Beadlescomb, who trains with Canada’s Ben Flanagan and Very Good Monitor Membership in Michigan, has been dominant on the roads in 2023, profitable a U.S. nationwide title within the street 5K. Beadlescomb not solely secured the win on Thursday morning, but in addition secured a hoop, proposing to his girlfriend Lexi Heger moments after his victory. (She reportedly stated sure.)
Manchester Street Race winner Morgan Beadlescomb proposes to his girlfriend Lexi Heger after the race (she stated sure!) pic.twitter.com/kbep9mQaAX
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On the ladies’s aspect, U.S. distance runner Weini Kelati gained her third consecutive Manchester Street Race, with a large win by 39 seconds. Kelati is simply the second lady to win the race three years in a row, becoming a member of Olympian Amy Rudolph, who achieved the feat in 1995, 1996 and 1997.
U.S. 5K street champion Annie Rodenfels completed second behind Kelati; third throughout the road was the highest American on the 2023 TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon, Emily Durgin, in 24:05, solely 4 weeks after she ran the Olympic commonplace in a fifth-overall efficiency in Toronto.
Manchester Street Race winners Weini Kelati and Morgan Beadlescomb pic.twitter.com/ngNQEMHkUf
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The Manchester Street Race is among the oldest races within the U.S., holding a singular distance of 4.75 miles (7.6 km) and going down yearly on U.S. Thanksgiving, yearly since 1927. (The 2020 version of the race was held just about.)
Linkletter says he ran the Manchester Street Race as a check of health and as a tune-up for an indoor one-mile race in Boston on Dec. 2. In keeping with his new YouTube channel, Linkletter is seeking to enhance his mile private better of 4:02.41, and is inching towards that sub-four-minute mark. His new channel additionally offers followers a sneak peek behind his exercises, coaching, and what it’s prefer to be a professional marathoner dwelling at altitude in Flagstaff, Ariz.
