Moh Ahmed half marathon debut delayed again in NYC due to injuries

CBC Sports

· Posted: Mar 16, 2025 2:25 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Moh Ahmed's long-awaited debut successful the fractional marathon is backmost connected hold.

The Canadian region runner was scratched from Sunday's 21.1-kilometre contention successful New York City owed to backmost spasms and adductor issues suffered this week successful his last workout. Adductors are a radical of muscles that bring the limb inward towards the body.

"He is profoundly disappointed to not beryllium capable to enactment up against yet different fantastic field," Ahmed's agent, Dan Lilot of Aurum Sports Group, wrote successful a connection to contention organizer, New York Road Runners. "[He] hopes to beryllium invited backmost to the Big Apple successful the future."

Ahmed, 34, besides withdrew from a fractional marathon successful Houston 14 months agone aft tweaking his hamstring/hip flexor successful his past pre-race workout.

Last week, Ahmed's longtime manager Jerry Schumacher told CBC Sports the St. Catharines, Ont., autochthonal was steadfast and successful large signifier aft a insignificant ft contented forced Ahmed to retreat successful January from the men's indoor 3,000 astatine the Millrose Games successful NYC.

Schumacher expects Ahmed to vie outdoors connected the way this season, including the 5,000 and/or 10,000 metres successful Tokyo astatine the World Athletics Championships successful September, since helium has met the qualifying times.

At the Paris Olympics past August, Ahmed's entreaty was rejected aft helium was tripped late successful his 5,000 heat. The Canadian opened his 4th Olympics with a fourth-place decorativeness successful the 10,000.

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But speech of the 2021 Olympic metallic medallist making the modulation to roadworthy racing has ne'er been louder. Ahmed, who won past year's Ottawa 10-kilometre roadworthy race, has discussed the fractional marathon with Schumacher for six oregon 7 years, but Ahmed either couldn't acceptable the contention successful his docket oregon was injured.

Three different Canadians were steadfast and successful good signifier aboriginal Sunday morning, led by Ben Flanagan, who battled the fog, bedewed conditions and a spot of humidity to spot seventh among elite men successful 61 minutes 31 seconds connected a challenging people successful his archetypal NYC fractional and 5th overall. His idiosyncratic champion is 1 hr 1 minute.

Andrew Davies of Sarnia, Ont., was 16th (1:04:09) successful his NYC Half debut 5 weeks aft lowering his PB by 14 seconds to 1:03:05 successful the Vancouver First Half Marathon.

Tristan Woodfine, who hails from Cobden, Ont., went 1:04:32 for 20th. The 31-year-old was sixth (1:03:50) successful NYC a twelvemonth ago, a small implicit a infinitesimal shy of his 1:02:40 best, acceptable successful Boston successful November 2023.

Flanagan volition instrumentality immoderate clip disconnected awaiting the accomplishment of his babe daughter, the 30-year-old's archetypal kid with woman Hannah, earlier opening a agelong artifact of marathon training.

Flanagan, who made his Olympic debut past summertime successful the 5,000, is eyeing a autumn marathon, including the Toronto Waterfront event.

"It's decidedly 1 I'm considering, evidently due to the fact that it would beryllium large to marque the debut successful Canada," helium told CBC Sports recently, adding New York, Chicago and the California International Marathon are besides connected the radar. "I retrieve erstwhile Cam Levins made his marathon debut [in Toronto successful 2018] and acceptable the Canadian record, truthful it worked retired for hiim

"My biggest extremity with the marathon debut is to person a bully experience. For way athletes, it's casual to miscalculate however atrocious a marathon tin spell oregon however mistakes tin outgo you. I privation it to spell good and cognize I tin improve."