In 2021, we noticed among the finest years when it comes to Canadian athletic efficiency. Seven open Canadian data had been damaged throughout all disciplines, with some marks cementing themselves within the Canadian report books for a few years to return. One month into the brand new yr, we’ve already seen one report go down on the 2022 Houston Half Marathon, as Rory Linkletter broke Jeff Schiebler’s 23-year-old males’s half-marathon report in 61:08. Constructing off final yr’s unbelievable performances, listed here are the Canadian data that can seemingly be damaged this yr.
Males’s 100m (9.84)
Andre De Grasse has come near the legendary mark of 9.84 (held collectively by Donovan Bailey and Bruny Surin) on a couple of events all through his profession, however the wind has all the time been unlawful (+2.0/m). His most up-to-date outcome on the Prefontaine Traditional final August was 9.74 seconds, wind-aided by (+2.9). His private greatest wind-legal time got here on the largest stage on the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, the place he received bronze behind Italy’s Marcell Lamont Jacobs and U.S. sprinter Fred Kerley.
On the 2022 World Championships, De Grasse will return to the identical facility and monitor the place he ran a wind-aided 9.74. There are often three rounds of 100m competitors in a world championship occasion, so odds are, one of many three races shall be a authorized wind and Canada’s prime sprinter can put his title within the report books as soon as once more.
Damian Warner and Andre De Grasse finalists for 2021 Lou Marsh Award
Girls’s 3,000m steeplechase (9:22.40)
At first of final season, Genevieve Lalonde was the queen of the three,000m steeplechase in Canada. Though she holds the throne once more after briefly dropping it to Regan Yee (who received the 2021 Canadian Championships within the occasion 5 days earlier than setting the report at Montreal along with her efficiency of 9:27.54), there may be unbelievable depth within the girls’s 3,000m steeplechase presently. Lalonde is coming off a career-best season with a private greatest within the self-discipline (9:22.40) and the Canadian XC championship. Alycia Butterworth made her first Olympic crew, decreasing her private greatest all the way down to 9:28.68, and Yee was on hearth in 2021.
A reputation to look out for is Ceili McCabe from Vancouver, B.C. who runs for West Virginia College. McCabe has damaged a number of Canadian U23 data and got here near securing a spot on Canada’s Olympic crew final summer time, along with her PB of 9:37.39. The 21-year-old was third on the NCAA Cross Nation Championships final yr and sixth within the steeplechase.
If the celebs align for these 4 unbelievable athletes, we may see one other new Canadian girls’s steeplechase report.
Former athletes suggest equal XC distances for women and men in NCAA
Males’s marathon (2:09:25)
It took 43 years for the report to fall earlier than Cam Levins made historical past on the 2018 Toronto Waterfront Marathon. Since then, just one Canadian athlete has run beneath 2:10: Trevor Hofbauer on the Canadian Marathon Trials in 2019.
Proper now, Canadian marathoning is in a superb place with six or seven people who can run beneath 2:15 on any given day. Linkletter ran 2:12 final month on the California Worldwide Marathon and has his sights set on decreasing that point within the fall of 2022. Canada’s Ben Preisner, Justin Kent, Hofbauer and Levins are all nonetheless on this report, even when their fundamental aim shall be to hit the world championship customary time of two:11:30 this spring.
Ben Preisner on the race of his life at The Marathon Challenge
Girls’s 4x400m relay (3:21.21)
The Canadian girls’s 4x400m relay crew made up of Alicia Brown, Sage Watson, Madeline Value and Kyra Constantine completed simply shy of the Canadian report and the rostrum on the Tokyo Olympic Video games (3:21.84). Each Value and Constantine had been at their first Olympic Video games and shall be again with a vengeance on the 2022 World Championships this yr, the place Canada has a shot on the podium.
Males’s 10K street (28:17)
One of many longest-standing Canadian data up to now is Paul McCloy’s 10K street report of 28:17, set in Florida in 1987. Though you don’t usually see Canada’s prime distance athletes combine it up in a street 10K, there are three or 4 Canadian athletes that may come near this 35-year-old mark.
We noticed Ben Flanagan, Luc Bruchet and Preisner all come inside 30 seconds of this time on a windy fall day in Toronto final October on the Canadian 10K Championships. Canada’s best distance runner, Mohammed Ahmed, has not touched street racing but in his profession, however his 10,000m Canadian report of 26:59 hypothetically interprets to a sub-28 time on the roads.