Winnipeg Olympian posts running record in Boston
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An Olympian from Winnipeg chocked up a new race record in Boston Saturday.
Nicole Sifuentes, 30, led the race, setting a new course record at the Boston Athletic Association Invitational Mile, the same organization that hosts the famous Boston marathon every year.
Running Magazine reported Sifuentes lead the entire race from start to finish.
"She ran 4:33.7, according to preliminary results announced at the finish line, which betters the existing course record," the magazine reported. Sifuentes broke the course record by approximately five seconds.
The BAA Invitational Mile is 1,609 metres in length, and the course is three laps of a block around the Boston Marathon finish line.
Sifuentes let her actions speak for her Saturday, retweeting the magazine’s link along with a cluster of congratulatory messages after the race.
Former U-M stars sweep the @baa miles! Congrats to women’s winner (& current U-M volunteer assistant) @ndsifuentes! 4:33.7 FTW https://t.co/mfu2KLzl4D
— Michigan Track&Field (@UMichTrack) April 15, 2017
The Winnipeg runner was a 2014 World Indoor Championship bronze medallist and a 2015 Pan American Games silver medallist in the 1500-metre event. She’s also the current holder of the top Canadian time in the indoor 3000-metre.
Sifuentes represented Canada in both the London and Rio Olympics in the metric mile equivalent, making the semi-finals in both games.
Running Magazine recorded her lifetime best Saturday as 4:03.97 in the 1,500-metre event.
"For all those people, I run for them," she told the CBC after the 2015 games in Rio. "I wish I could have given them something to be excited about tonight. This is hard, but I’m thankful I was here and I gave it my best."
On Saturday in Boston, Sifuentes bested a world-class field, which included Cory McGee and Emily Lipari, who finished second and third, perspectively.
Sifuentes was born and raised in Winnipeg.
She attended Vincent Massey Collegiate and after graduation left for the United States on an athletic scholarship to the University of Michigan. She met and married fellow University of Michigan graduate Antonio Sifuentes in 2011, the athlete says in her blog.
For all her accolades, including the latest, Sifuentes is down to earth about her accomplishments, figuring she was born to be a runner.
"I like to run, travel, relax, eat, and nap. Oh ya — and I’m ultra competitive. I got into running because I was terrible at all other sports," her blog quotes her as saying.
alexandra.paul@freepress.mb.ca
.@UMichTrack alumni Nicole Sifuentes wins the @BAA Invitational Mile. #BostonMarathon pic.twitter.com/0YIrwDnqXk
— Jason Hall (@JasonLanceHall) April 15, 2017