Dayna Pidhoresky and Francois Jarry break the tape at Montreal Half-Marathon

.@DaynaPidhoresky est la gagnante au 21k de la course Banque Scotia 21k de Montréal! #Scotia21kMTL #CourseScotia pic.twitter.com/11jbrxasH6

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Some quick and speedy runners put on quite the show in Montreal this morning as they battled it out on the course of the Montreal Half-Marathon. 

Most note-worthy of today’s performances was Vancouver elite Dayna Pidhoresky’s first-place run. Pidhoresky broke the tape of the women’s race in 1:13:43 with nearly a two minute lead on the runner up: Lioudmila Kortchaguina. This win at the Montreal event comes within six months of Pidhoresky’s marathon debut. She ran in Toronto at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon to place third in her first-ever crack at 42.2K running a 2:40:38 debut. Today, she bested the rest of the elite women showing that she’s one to keep an eye on at top Canadian races going forward. 

Kortchaguina took the second spot in 1:15:37 and Arianne Raby wound up in the top three with her 1:15:52 half-marathon. 

.@Francois_Jarry est le gagnant au 21k de la course Banque Scotia 21k de Montréal! #Scotia21kMTL #CourseScotia pic.twitter.com/whmOMD8oVR

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The men’s race came much closer today but Francois Jarry came out on top. The runner clocked a 1:07:22 for his first place finish. Behind him was Stephane Colle (1:07:36) and John Mason in third (1:o7:40). 

Conditions on the course in Montreal today were bright and sunny and a touch on the warm side with the mercury hovering at 12 C. 

And they’re off at the Banque Scotia 21K de Montréal! ? #Scotia21KMTL #CourseScotia pic.twitter.com/3F2cNEbCT9

— CanadaRunningSeries (@RunCRS) April 23, 2017