Charles Philibert-Thiboutot runs remarkable Canadian two-kilometre record
Philibert-Thiboutot ran two back-to-back 2:28 kilometres to clock a new Canadian 2,000m record of 4:56.88
Photo by:
Felix Lapointe
On Saturday night in his hometown of Quebec City, Charles Philibert-Thiboutot ran a new Canadian 2,000m record of 4:56.88 to break the previous record by almost three seconds.
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Mission réussit hier soir au Peps.
2000m 4:56.88, nouveau record canadien pour @Chuck_PT. Son deuxième de la saison après le 5km en avril.
Le monde du sport de haut niveau nous fait vivre toute une gamme d’émotions. Beau moment hier soir à la maison.
📸 @NiMo_Run pic.twitter.com/Vm7HIcfnGr
— Felix A Lapointe (@CoachLapointe) August 14, 2022
The 31-year-old middle-distance runner clocked back-to-back two-minute and 28-second kilometres on the Laval University track, which equates to a speed of 24.5 km/h.
Philibert-Thiboutot broke the previous mark of 4:59.56 held by Nathan Brannen, which was set at a York University meet in 2013. The 2,000m is five laps of the track, and is rarely run at track meets around the world.
He was paced by his training partners Thomas Fafard and Jean-Simon Desgagnés. Both Philibert-Thiboutot and Desgagnés represented Canada at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene. Philibert-Thiboutot reached the semi-finals in the 1,500m, but just missed out on a spot in the final.
This is now his second Canadian outdoor record of the season. In April at the B.A.A. 5K in Boston, he set the Canadian 5K record at 13:35.
Philibert-Thiboutot will now prepare for the 1,500m at this weekend’s NACAC Senior Championships in the Bahamas, where he hopes to bring home a medal for Canada.
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