 On the strength of that victory, he was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's top athlete of 1949.Lumsdon would go on to win four more marathons at the CNE, including a 32-mile race along the Lake Ontario waterfront in 1955 (replacing a planned cross-lake competition).Lumsdon was the only one of 29 starters to complete the course—no other swimmer even made it to the half-way point.