What a yr it’s been for Canadian athletics. From January via December 2025, athletes from throughout the nation delivered breakthrough performances on each the nationwide and world levels, making Canada proud. Narrowing these moments down was no simple process, however these standout achievements greatest seize the excellence of this yr in Canadian working.
10. Wyatt Lee smashes highschool 100m report
For Kingston, Ont.’s Wyatt Lee2025 was a yr of record-breaking. On the OFSAA Monitor & Subject Championships in June, the 17-year-old clocked 10.38 seconds within the senior boys’ 100m remaining to smash a 31-year-old Canadian interscholastic report and the U18 Canadian report. The earlier mark of 10.41 seconds was set by 1996 Olympic gold medallist Carlton Chambers.
It was the third time that season that Lee had damaged the U18 100m Canadian report; he additionally set a brand new U18 60m report in March, working 6.71 seconds.
9. Rachel Hannah wins her first Canadian marathon title
At October’s TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon, which doubled because the Canadian Marathon Championships, Rachel Hannah of Port Elgin, Ont., ran 2:33:47 to turn into the primary Canadian finisher, claiming her sixth nationwide title, and her first within the marathon.
The run additionally marked her quickest marathon since 2016.
8. Philippe Morneau-Cartier completes U Sports activities XC hat trick
At November’s 2025 U Sports activities Cross-Nation Championships in Quebec, Université Laval’s Philippe Morneau-Cartier made historical past by efficiently finishing the U Sports activities hat trick, successful the person championship title for 3 straight years.
Morneau-Cartier coated the 8K course in 23:14 to carry off the sector by a five-second margin, marking his third consecutive undefeated season on the U Sports activities XC stage.
7. Charles Philibert-Thiboutot will get 10K report in debut
Making his Canadian 10K Championships debut, Quebec two-time Olympian Charles Philibert-Thiboutot broke the nationwide 10K highway report by three seconds, clocking 28:06 to win his first nationwide 10K title. He additionally smashed his earlier 10K private greatest by 46 seconds.
The previous mark of 28:09 was set by Ben Flanagan on the similar occasion in 2024.
6. Savannah Sutherland breaks NCAA 400m hurdles report
At June’s NCAA Outside Championships in Eugene, Ore., Savannah Sutherland shocked Hayward Subject with a 52.46-second run within the 400m hurdles, shattering Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s former NCAA collegiate report of 52.75.
The victory marked her second nationwide title and her third straight top-two end within the occasion, and stamped her identify in 4 report books: College of Michigan, collegiate, NCAA Championship and Canadian nationwide.
5. Rory Linkletter runs second-fastest Canadian marathon in Boston
At April’s Boston Marathon, Rory Linkletter had the race of his life, ending sixth, with a private greatest of two:07:02. The run surpassed his top-10 objective, marking each the quickest time by a Canadian in Boston and the second-fastest time ever run by a Canadian.
Linkletter has since lowered his private greatest, putting ninth on the Chicago Marathon in October in 2:06:49.
4. Marco Arop wins world 800m bronze on his twenty seventh birthday
Edmonton’s Marco Arop delivered Canada’s first observe medal of the 2025 World Athletics Championships, incomes bronze within the males’s 800m in 1:41.95 on his twenty seventh birthday. In an exhilarating race, Arop completed lower than a tenth of a second behind Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya, who claimed gold.
The efficiency extends Arop’s streak of podium finishes on the worldwide stage: gold on the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, silver on the 2024 Paris Olympics, and bronze on the 2022 Worlds in Eugene.
3. Malindi Elmore breaks males’s & ladies’s 45+ marathon data
In Valencia, Spain, in early December, 45-year-old Malindi Elmore ran 2:24:53, to solely demolishing the ladies’s Canadian 45+ masters report by a whopping 14 minutes, but in addition beating the boys’s 45+ mark, by 36 seconds. The efficiency marked Elmore’s third-fastest marathon and the fourth-fastest ladies’s marathon by a Canadian, trailing solely her personal faster instances and Natasha Wodak’s nationwide report.
2. Gabriela DeBues-Stafford cements comeback in worlds 1,500m remaining
For Gabriela DeBues-Stafford2025 was a yr of redemption. After lacking out on qualifying for the 2024 Olympics in each the 1,500m and 5,000m, DeBues-Stafford made her return to Workforce Canada for the primary time since 2021, incomes a spot on the earth championship 1,500m remaining. Nevertheless it didn’t finish there; within the remaining, the 30-year-old stormed to her quickest time since 2022, clocking 3:59.65–not only a season’s greatest, however the quickest time by a Canadian lady since 2022.
1. Evan Dunfee wins world race stroll gold
At his seventh world championship, Canadian race stroll report holder Evan Dunfee made historical past on the World Championships in Tokyo, successful 35K gold in 2:28:22. He did it regardless of tearing his hamstring with two km to go, pushing via excruciating ache for the ultimate stretch–in addition to battling 25 C temperatures and 94 per cent humidity–to turn into the primary champion of Tokyo 2025.
