{"id":194,"date":"2011-11-22T19:42:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T19:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/?p=194"},"modified":"2011-11-22T19:47:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T19:47:29","slug":"canada-in-japan-fo-chiba-ekiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/news\/canada-in-japan-fo-chiba-ekiden.htm","title":{"rendered":"Canada in Japan for Chiba Ekiden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chiba Ekiden<\/p><\/div>\n

OTTAWA –<\/strong> Athletics Canada has sent a contingent of eight athletes to Japan to compete tomorrow in the 23rd annual International Chiba Ekiden Road Race Relay.\u00a0 The unique marathon distance road race relay features mixed men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams running six alternate legs.<\/p>\n

The Chiba Ekiden relay will unfold in the following order: men\u2019s 5km, women\u2019s 5km, men\u2019s 10km, women\u2019s 5km, men\u2019s 10km and then ending with a women\u2019s 7.195km leg. Canada will face strong competition from twelve nations including the host country, China, Kenya, the United States, Romania and Russia.<\/p>\n

Team Leader, Thelma Wright comments on the Canadian team, \u201cOur young team is up to the challenge and will be looking for personal bests and a strong team result against some of the world\u2019s best\u201d. Wright adds, \u201cExperienced Chiba returnees Lanni Marchant and Natasha Wodak along with 2011 Canadian cross-country team members Kate Vaughan and Derek Snider will be joined by 2008 Olympian Taylor Milne and 2009 World Championship team member Rob Watson, Dayna Pidhoresky and young upcoming road racer Terence Attema\u201d.<\/p>\n

Athletics Canada l2011 Chiba Ekiden Road Race Team <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name <\/strong><\/td>\nHometown <\/strong><\/td>\nPersonal Coach <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Terence Attema<\/td>\nSmithville, Ont.<\/td>\nStuart Galloway<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lanni Marchant<\/td>\nLondon, Ont.<\/td>\nDave Mills<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Taylor Milne<\/td>\nGuelph, Ont.<\/td>\nDave Scott-Thomas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dayna Pidhoresky<\/td>\nTecumseh, Ont.<\/td>\nJosh Seifarth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Derek Snider<\/td>\nLindsay, Ont.<\/td>\nDave Scott-Thomas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kate Vaughan<\/td>\nSaint John, Nfld.<\/td>\nFabien Basset<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rob Watson<\/td>\nGuelph, Ont.<\/td>\nDave Scott-Thomas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Natasha Wodak<\/td>\nPort Moody, B.C.<\/td>\nBrit Townsend<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\n

Integrated Support Team <\/strong><\/td>\n

<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thelma Wright<\/td>\nTeam Leader<\/td>\nVancouver, B.C.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chris Moulton<\/td>\nTeam Coach<\/td>\nHamilton, Ont.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ron O’Hare<\/td>\nPhysiotherapist<\/td>\nAurora, Ont.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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OTTAWA – Athletics Canada has sent a contingent of eight athletes to Japan to compete tomorrow in the 23rd annual International Chiba Ekiden Road Race Relay.\u00a0 The unique marathon distance road race relay features mixed men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams running six alternate legs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,1],"tags":[4,40,84,85],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-featured","category-news","tag-4","tag-athletics-canada","tag-chiba-ekiden","tag-road-relay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}