Athletics Canada has introduced the names of 54 athletes who will make up the Canadian staff on the World Athletics Championships (WAC) in Eugene, Ore., from July 15-24. 30 girls and 24 males will head to Eugene, with a complete of 15 Olympic medals between them.
ATHLETICS CANADA NAMES 54 ATHLETES TO WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM🇨🇦
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Notable monitor athletes embrace Aaron Brown, Andre De Grasse, Lucia Stafford, Damian Warner, and Maddy Kelly. The final World Championships have been held in Doha, Qatar, in 2019, and Canada returned with one silver and 4 bronze medals. De Grasse received silver within the 200m and introduced residence a bronze within the 100m, whereas Warner took bronze within the decathlon, Mohammed Ahmed within the 5000m, and Evan Dunfee within the 50K race stroll. All the 2019 medalists shall be returning to this 12 months’s occasion.
Group Canada’s head coach Glenroy Gilbert has excessive hopes for this group, as reported on the Athletics Canada web site: “With the World Championships as our benchmark occasion, we’re anticipating the athletes to carry out at their absolute best and that is our strongest staff,” he says. “We’ve had some nice performances at Nationwide Championships final week in quite a lot of occasions. We have been additionally lacking some athletes who shall be at Worlds, so we’re anticipating some nice outcomes total in Eugene.”
Brown, who received his tenth nationwide title final weekend on the Canadian Nationwide Championships, advised Athletics Canada that he’s trying ahead to competing in North America. Brown placed on a season’s greatest efficiency to win the lads’s 200m in 20.03 seconds final Sunday afternoon in Langley, B.C. “This world championship is particular as a result of it’s in North America for the primary time,” stated Brown. “Hayward is at all times a particular place to run and I’m hoping this chance to develop the game on this aspect of the world is seized.”
Monitor athletes named to the Canadian World Championship staff
Males’s 35 km race stroll: Evan Dunfee
Girls’s 4x400m relay: Kyra Constantine, Natassha McDonald, Lauren Gale, Aiyanna Stiverne, Zoe Sherar, Micha Powell
Males’s 4x100m relay: Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, Brendon Rodney, Malachi Murray, Benjamin Williams
Girls’s 4x100m relay: Leya Buchanan, Khamica Bingham, Crystal Emmanuel, Jacqueline Madogo, Sade McCreath, Makenzy Pierre-Webster
Males’s decathlon: Damian Warner, Pierce LePage
Males’s 400m hurdles: Malik Metivier
Girls’s 400m hurdles: Noelle Montcalm
Girls’s 100m hurdles: Michelle Harrison
Males’s 100m: Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, Andre De Grasse
Girls’s 100m: Khamica Bingham, Crystal Emmanuel
Males’s 200m: Jerome Blake, Aaron Brown, Andre De Grasse
Girls’s 200m: Crystal Emmanuel, Lauren Gale
Girls’s 400: Lauren Gale, Natassha McDonald, Aiyanna Stiverne
Girls’s 800m: Lindsey Butterworth, Madeleine Kelly, Addy Townsend
Males’s 800m: Marco Arop, Brandon McBride
Girls’s 1,500m: Lucia Stafford, Natalia Hawthorn
Males’s 1,500m: Charles Philibert-Thiboutot, William Paulson
Males’s 3,000m steeplechase: Jean-Simon Desgagnes, John Homosexual, Ryan Smeeton
Girls’s 3,000m steeplechase: Ceili McCabe, Regan Yee
Girls’s 5,000m: Julie-Anne Staehli
Males’s 5,000m: Mohammed Ahmed, Charles Philibert-Thiboutot
Males’s 10,000m: Mohammed Ahmed
Girls’s marathon: Elissa Legualt, Kinsey Middleton, Leslie Sexton
Males’s marathon: Cameron Levins, Rory Linkletter, Ben Preisner
The 2022 World Athletics Championships will happen at Hayward Area in Eugene, Ore., from July 15-24.