2023 Desjardins Run to Empower race recap

Thank you to everyone that ran, walked, rolled, volunteered and cheered at this year’s Desjardins Run to Empower!

We hope you had an empowering and inspiring evening on the farm! Thanks to your generous donations and Green Bib participation, you have raised over $1600 for the OSEG Foundation’s Girls on the Run Ottawa program.

Thank you to all the volunteers who helped make this event such a success, we could not do this without you!

Thank you to Kichesippi Beer for providing a refreshing post-race Warrior Women beer to everyone 19 and over. And we are grateful to St. Johns Ambulance for providing their services and keeping our participants safe!

Congratulations to all our finishers!

AWARDS AND RESULTS

Congratulations to this year’s top finishers of Ottawa’s Fastest Women 5K:

1) Rebecca Pieterson (17:18.0)
2) Amy Harkness (17:25.0)
3) Alexandra Hynes (17:26.0)
4) Andrea Hill (17:31.0)
5) Ioulia Nikonorova (17:41.0)

Run to Empower Open 5K top 3 female finishers:

1) Gracen Johnson (21:29.0)
2) Kerrie Watts (21:39.0)
3) Januana Teixeira (21:56.0)

Run to Empower Open 5K top 3 male finishers:

1) Charles Plamondon (16:42.0)
2) Connor Hammond (16:57.0)
3) Barrett Goold (18:26.0)

Little Warriors Kids 1K Run top 3 female finishers:

1) Charlie Cavill (05:01.0)
2) Ayah Zalal (05:13.0)
3) Keeva Hatfield (05:19.0)

Little Warriors Kids 1K Run top 3 male finishers:

1) Emmett Simon (05:24.0)
2) Jax Mackay (06:02.0)
3) Luke Sue-Chue-Lam (06:05.0)

You can find your race results at Sportstats.ca:

Ottawa’s Fastest Women 5K
Run to Empower Open 5K
Little Warriors Kids 1K
Run Ottawa members results

FREE RACE PHOTOS

​​​​Don’t forget to download your free Desjardins Run to Empower photos from FinisherPix! All 2023 Run Ottawa event photos can be found here.