Eight brothers complete the 2017 Quebec City Marathon
The Quebec City Marathon was a family affair for the Rancourts as eight siblings raced, and completed, the 42K
Road racing runs in the Rancourt family.
Eight siblings of the Rancourt family – Rene, Sylvain, Bernard, Jasmin, Sylvio, Benoit, Alain and Roland – completed the Quebec City Marathon – officially known as Marathon SSQ de Québec – on Sunday morning. According to the Journal de Quebec, the brothers have combined to run more than 300 marathons.
Benoit, who has run every edition of the Quebec City Marathon dating back to 1998, completed a 42K race for the 123rd time at the point-to-point Levis to Quebec City race.
Rene was the fastest on Sunday, completing the marathon in 3:14:17, with Sylvain running with Rene for at least half of the race, splitting identical half-marathon times, before finishing in 3:19:01. Roland was the eighth to cross the line in 5:11:06.
Sunday was not the first time that many of the Rancourts raced at the same time. Seven of the same Quebec City Marathon-running Rancourt siblings completed the 2017 Ottawa Marathon in May including three – Rene, Jasmin and Bernard – crossing the finish line at the same time in 3:21:37.
The eight siblings were among the 1,260 participants to run the 20th annual Quebec City Marathon.
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