{"id":155,"date":"2011-10-17T10:44:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T10:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/?p=155"},"modified":"2011-10-20T10:44:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T10:44:50","slug":"coolsaet-gillis-qualify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/news\/coolsaet-gillis-qualify.htm","title":{"rendered":"Coolsaet and Gillis hit qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_156\" style=\"width: 541px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/coolsaet-reid.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156 \" title=\"Olympic Marathon Qualifiers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/coolsaet-reid.jpg\" alt=\"Olympic Marathon Qualifiers\" width=\"531\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/coolsaet-reid.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/coolsaet-reid-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olympic Marathon Qualifiers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon both Reid Coolsaet of Hamilton, Ont., and Eric Gillis of Antigonish, N.S., dipped below Athletics Canada\u2019s marathon qualification standard of 2:11:29 for the 2012 Olympic Games.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Coolsaet finished third overall in 2:10:55 and Gillis crossed the line in fourth in 2:11:28; a personal best for both runners.\u00a0 After the race Gillis said to the Canadian Press, \u201cI can\u2019t believe it was by a second.\u00a0 A marathon and one second?\u00a0 I could\u2019ve just as easily been one second over.\u00a0 I feel really, really lucky to get that standard.\u201d\u00a0 Coolsaet and Gillis\u2019 performances will ensure Canadian representation in the marathon at the Olympic Games for the first time since Bruce Deacon at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Coolsaet made a valiant effort at gunning down the Canadian record in windy and rainy conditions just missing it by 46 seconds.\u00a0 The record of 2:10:09 was set in 1975 by Jerome Drayton.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m really happy to have run a PB in these conditions, I was fortunate enough to have a good pack that I was able to use to block the wind and that really helped me for the first 35-36 kilometres,\u201d said Coolsaet to CP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon both Reid Coolsaet of Hamilton, Ont., and Eric Gillis of Antigonish, N.S., dipped below Athletics Canada\u2019s marathon qualification standard of 2:11:29 for the 2012 Olympic Games.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,45],"tags":[74,59,53,441,75],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-toronto","tag-eric-gillis","tag-olympic","tag-reid-coolsaet","tag-toronto","tag-waterfront-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}