Rory Linkletter was in his junior year on a track scholarship at Brigham Young University when Cam Levins shattered a 46-year-old Canadian record in the marathon at the Toronto Waterfront event in 2018.

By then, Linkletter had represented Canada internationally for the first time in 2015 at the World Cross-Country Championships and again in 2017, a year in which he also finished second in the 10,000 metres at the NCAA championships as a sophomore. But all along, he was drawn to the marathon.

At BYU in Provo, Utah, Linkletter was coached by American Ed Eyestone, who ran the marathon at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics. Levins’s success on that Oct. 21 day in Toronto, a two-hour nine-minute 25-second performance in his first marathon, only served as further inspiration.

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