Tokyo 2020 Olympian and the fourth-fastest Canadian marathoner, Trevor Hofbauer, has hung up his carbon-plated footwear. On Wednesday, the 32-year-old introduced on social media that he has achieved every part he wished to in his profession and shall be shifting on from athletics.
On Instagram, Hofbauer wrote: “At this time, I’m asserting my retirement from Athletics. My profession has been a dream come true, closely supported by household, associates, neighborhood, race organizations, sponsors, and the need to be the most effective model of myself on this area. I’m ceaselessly grateful for the recollections and friendships which have developed alongside the best way, and for the alternatives to characterize my residence, neighborhood and nation on the world stage.”
“Thanks to everybody who has cheered me on alongside the best way.”
Hofbauer is a three-time Canadian marathon champion and represented Canada on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the males’s marathon, the place he positioned forty seventh total, in 2:19:57. His private finest time within the marathon got here on the 2019 Toronto Waterfront Marathon, the place he completed as the highest Canadian, in 2:09:51.
The 32-year-old had the aim of constructing the Canadian marathon crew for Paris 2024, however his Olympic aspirations ended after he suffered an Achilles damage final spring.
Regardless of his elite days being over, Hofbauer says he’ll proceed working inside the operating trade with RunCalgary and the Calgary Marathon and as a retail specialist with impartial operating retailer, Strides Working.
Hofbauer had an unlikely path to skilled operating, arising by way of the Canadian collegiate system after pursuing a profession in basketball till he was 19.
In a 2015 interview with Canadian Working, Hofbauer stated he wished to be a optimistic function mannequin inside the operating neighborhood. “Being part of the neighborhood provides me a distinct perspective on the game; it permits me to stay level-headed, and I’m capable of meet so many individuals with wonderful tales. This sport is a present; that’s how I understand it. On the finish of the day, I wish to be referred to as the child with a ton of coronary heart earlier than I’m labelled as the child with quick legs.”