Tens of thousands participate in 39th Vancouver Sun Run – BC | 24CA News
A bit of rain didn’t cease tens of hundreds of runners, and walkers, from having fun with the thirty ninth Vancouver Sun Run Sunday.
The timed race kicked off at 9 a.m. with greater than 35,000 individuals for one of many largest races in North America.
The run takes over a lot of downtown Vancouver, together with the West End, Fairview and Kitsilano neighbourhoods, and drivers are warned of street closures which is able to final all through the day.
The Sun Run’s race director, Tom Hopkins, mentioned this 12 months’s occasion noticed the most important enhance in individuals from a earlier 12 months ever — a leap of greater than 15,000.
“(The Sun Run) is not just for the lead athletes,” he instructed Global News Sunday.
“It’s for the everyday recreational runner, walker, you name it. It started to get people active and it’s been Canada’s largest run since day one.”
The winners of this 12 months’s Sun Run had been John Gray, who took first general with a time of 29:40, Leslie Sexton, who was the primary lady to cross, with a time of 32:22 and Leo Sammarelli was the primary wheelchair participant to complete with a time of 35:18.
There was additionally a “mini Sun Run” that had round 2,500 individuals, principally youngsters, that began close to B.C. Place.
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