CEDAR CITY, Utah - As the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games roll on, former Thunderbird track & field standout and two-time NCAA National Champion Cameron Levins has been hard at work preparing for his time to compete for his country.

Levins will be competing for Team Canada in the marathon on the final day of the Olympic Games, Sunday, August 8 in Tokyo (Saturday August 7 at 4:00 p.m. Mountain time). The former T-Bird qualified for the 2020 games with just a week left in the qualification period, running a 2:10:13 at the S7 Marathon in Austria in May.

Levins started training for the marathon after an injury kept him from qualifying for the 2016 Rio Games on the track. In October 2018 at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon he broke the 43-year-old Canadian men's marathon record of 2:10:09, replacing it with his mark of 2:09:25 as he finished fourth overall and was crowned national champion.

The Tokyo Games will be Levins' second Olympics after reaching the finals in both the 5,000 meter and 10,000 meter at the 2012 London Olympic Games. He was the first Canadian man to make the 5000m since 1968 and had the best performance by a Canadian man in the 10,000m since 1932. He also won the bronze medal in the 10,000m at Hampden Park in the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

Levins won two NCAA Individual National Championships while competing for Southern Utah on the track in both the 5,000m and the 10,000m in 2012. He was named the 2012 Bowerman Award winner making him the first Thunderbird and first Canadian to win the award given to the NCAA's best male track and field athlete of the year.

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