Canadian male high jumpers, Canadian male hurdlers, Canadian male long-distance runners, Canadian male long jumpers, Canadian male middle distance runners, Sy Mah, John Hugh Gillis, Phil Edwards, Ronald J. MacDonald, Alexis Lapointe
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Siegmar Ohlemann. Excerpt: Thian K. "Sy" Mah (August 2,
1926 - November 7, 1988) was an assistant professor of physical
education at the University of Toledo and a Canadian long-distance
runner who held a Guinness World Records mark for the most lifetime
marathons (524). The son of a Chinese immigrant family, Mah was
born in Bashaw, Alberta in 1926. English was his native language
and he did not speak Mandarin, but he was able to write his Chinese
name. He earned an arts degree from the University of Alberta in
1952, a physical education degree from McMaster University in 1960,
a bachelor of education from the University of Toronto in 1962, and
a masters degree in education from the University of Toronto around
1970. Mah taught in Ontario from 1955 to 1970. From 1970 to 1988,
he also established and taught exercise and cardiac rehabilitation
classes at the University of Toledo where he was a physical
education instructor. Mah joined the Chinese Association of Greater
Toledo in 1970 and later served as its program director. Mah,
described as "an ordinary runner of ordinary speed", did
not begin running marathons until he was 40. He reportedly took up
the sport to prevent heart disease that ran in his family. In 1964,
he formed the Metro Toronto Fitness Club with three others, and
later started the North York Track Club where he coached Maureen
Wilton. That club was considered one of the best in North America
and Wilton was one of its star athletes. Mah and the 13-year-old
Wilton both ran their debut marathons on May 6, 1967 at York
University in Toronto, Ontario. Wilton ran the first three laps of
the five lap course with Mah and she went on to finish in a time of
3:15:23, a performance recognized as a world best by the
International Association of Athletics Federations. Invited by Mah,
Kathrine Switzer also ran that day - only sixteen days after her
historic run at the Boston Marathon. Mah ran the Glass City
Marathon in Toledo, Ohio numerous times, his first at the inaugural
event in 1971. By
