Lethbridge runner Kip Kangogo wins Servus Calgary Marathon

A record 17,000 participants ran in the 2025 Servus Calgary Marathon Sunday

Lethbridge’s Kip Kangogo won the men’s 2025 Servus Calgary Marathon Sunday.

Kangogo, 45, ran the 42. 2 kilometre race in 2 hours, 28 minutes and 42 seconds.

Kelly Challinor of Kelowna won the women’s race, completing the race in 2 hours, 52 minutes and five seconds.

After the race, Kangogo, who grew up in Kenya before moving to Lethbridge in 2001, was all smiles.

“Servus Calgary Marathon has been a good friend,” he said. “I came with my family, and it was nice to come and win in front of my kids -- and the community is going the extra mile to make people active and fit.”

It was Kangogo’s third time winning in Calgary. He previously won the 50th anniversary race, in 2014, with a record time of 2:19:47. He also won in 2022, with a time of 2:32:54 and he won the 2017 half-marathon as well.

As for what was going through his mind as he ran through the streets of Calgary, where around 17,000 people competed in a variety of road races this weekend?

“I was kind of observing all the energy from everyone else and just run with everyone else,“ he said.

“It’s a friendship, it’s a way of life -- and it’s just the city comes alive during the Calgary Marathon race weekend.”

For Challinor, it was her first Calgary Marathon victory -- and the end was exactly what it is for almost every marathon runner.

“I had no idea whether anyone was behind me the whole way, so I thought I was being chased down,“ she said. ”It felt really good to cross the finish line, and the crowds were great.

“The last stretch was amazing, because I was pretty dead out there.”

With files from CTV’s Tyler Barrow