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Leah Robinson
Leah Robinson of Mannheim, Ont., established a new Canadian record and London Elite standard in the women’s T37 classification 400-metres at the Ottawa Springtime Meet in Ottawa, Ont. Robinson stopped the clock at 1:10.81. [Read more…]
Nathan Brannen and Jessica Zelinka record Olympic A+ standards
Nate Brannen
Jessica Zelinka of London, Ont., finished in sixth place at the IAAF Combined Events Challenge Hypo-Meeting in Gotzis, Austria this past weekend. The athlete who lives and trains in Calgary amassed a score of 6393 points in the seven event heptathlon, surpassing the Olympic A+ standard. Zelinka’s performance stands as the second best all-time heptathlon score by a Canadian athlete behind her Canadian record of 6490 set at the 2008 Olympic Games. Zelinka now needs a top three finish at the Track and Field Trials to secure her spot on the 2012 Olympic Games team. [Read more…]
Canadian Hurdlers
Four of Canada’s top five internationally decorated women’s sprint hurdlers will be in action today at the 2012 Diamond League series kick off in Doha, Qatar. Perdita Felicien of Pickering, Ont., Phylicia George of Markham, Ont., Nikkita Holder of Pickering, Ont., and Priscilla Lopes-Schliep of Whitby, Ont., will all be in the same race in what is sure to be a preview of the upcoming Track and Field Trials. Of course the Trials later this summer will determine which three of Canada’s fab five hurdlers earn the right to don the maple leaf at the Olympic Games. The fifth member of Canada’s hurdling powerhouse is Angela Whyte of Edmonton, Alta who has already notched the Olympic A standard but is not racing in Doha. [Read more…]
Brianne Theisen sets World leading mark at Pac-12 Championships
Brianne Theisen
At the PAC-12 Championships in Eugene, Oregon Brianne Theisen of Humboldt, Sask., set the world leading mark and hit the Olympic A+ standard with a performance of 6353-points in the seven event heptathlon discipline. “I’m on top of the world right now,” said Theisen. “I did everything I wanted to do, and I’m so happy. All I cared about was the Olympics, so doing that was the greatest thing in the world. I didn’t even care that it was (6,353), as long as it was 6,150 (the Olympic A standard)”. [Read more…]
Meeting International de Guadeloupe
Gossier, Guadeloupe – After taking a year off to give birth and in her first outdoor race since the Diamond League Final in September 2010, Priscilla Lopes-Schliep of Markham, Ont., finished third in the 100-metre hurdles at the Meeting International de Guadeloupe in an Olympic A standard time of 12.95 seconds. [Read more…]
Athletics Canada names team for 2012 Penn Relays USA vs. the World
Penn Relays 2012
Ottawa – Athletics Canada named today the team that will compete in the USA vs. the World competition at the 2012 Penn Relays in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania this coming Saturday, April 28. The competition provides an opportunity for Canada’s national relay teams to measure themselves against the world’s best and establish qualifying marks for the 2012 Olympic Games. [Read more…]
Cameron Levins wins gold at NACAC Cross Country
Cameron Levins
Cameron Levins of Black Creek, B.C., struck gold on Saturday in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad at the 2012 NACAC Cross Country Championships. Levins won the senior men’s 8km race in a time of 24:04.13; leading the Canadian senior team to silver. [Read more…]
Yohan Blake
EDMONTON- Jamaican Yohan Blake, the youngest 100-metres World Champion in history, has confirmed his participation at the Donovan Bailey Invitational on June 16 at Foote Field in Edmonton. Blake, who set a personal best of 9.82 seconds over 100-metres last year, shocking the sporting world, will headline the Men’s 100-metres event. The Donovan Bailey Invitational serves as the National Track League’s (NTL) third of six stops in 2012. The NTL will also make stops in Vancouver (June 10), Victoria (June 13), Moncton (July 5), Halifax (July 8), and Toronto (July 11). [Read more…]
Shawnacy Barber
Shawnacy Barber of Toronto, Ont., has a new personal best in the men’s Pole vault. His jump of 5.08-metres at the New Balance Nationals in New York, New York is also a new Canadian Junior record improving Taylor Petrucha’s mark of 5.00-metres established in 2006. [Read more…]
Nikkita Holder
Istanbul, Turkey – Nikkita Holder of Pickering, Ont., Michael Leblanc of Riverview, N.B., and Justyn Warner of Markham, Ont., advanced to tomorrow’s semis in their respective events at the 2012 World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. [Read more…]
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