On Could 2, Canadian marathoner Rachel Cliff and her husband, Olympic steeplechaser Chris Winter, welcomed the delivery of their first youngster, a woman–Esme Lorraine Winter.
Cliff set the Canadian report within the half-marathon in 2018, and broke her personal report in 2019, the identical 12 months she broke Lanni Marchant’s marathon report with a 2:26 on the Nagoya Girls’s Marathon in Japan. (Her information have since been damaged, by present report holders Malindi Elmore within the marathon and Andrea Seccafien within the half.)
Throughout her being pregnant, Cliff talked about how she skilled and stayed lively on her Instagram, documenting her progress and educating different moms. “Operating in being pregnant is an act of listening to your physique: some days I minimize my run shorter than deliberate and switched to the elliptical, or simply relaxation,” she writes.
The couple met on the College of Guelph, the place Cliff was working and Winter working in 2010.
Winter represented Canada within the 3,000m steeplechase on the 2016 Rio Olympics, ending tenth in his warmth in 8:33.95. He hung up his spikes on the finish of the 2016 season however has continued to run along with his spouse and remained affiliated with Athletics Canada, because the Director of Protected Sport.
Esme undoubtedly has some working genes as a daughter to an Olympian and former Canadian report holder. She was born at 4:15 a.m. P.T.–simply in time for a morning jaunt.
