What a month for athletics in Canada!
Canadian records on the track? You’ve got them. Gabriela DeBues-Stafford and Mohammed Ahmed both set new 5,000m marks!
What a men's 5k in Rome! Six under 13:00, 14 under the 2020 Olympic standard.
— Jonathan Gault (@jgault13) June 6, 2019
-First sub-13 & first DL win for Telahun Bekele of Ethiopian
-One week after Gabriela DeBues-Stafford breaks Canadian women's 5k record, Moh Ahmed does the same for the men
-Big pb for Justyn Knight. pic.twitter.com/WV5Ugf0vrG
Ahmed broke his own record and becomes the first Canadian under 13:00, at 12:58.16. The women’s record is now 14:51.59, which breaks a 16-year-old record!
And in the 800, Nate Reich crushed the previous world record for T 38!
Thatโs a ๐จ๐ฆ & ๐ RECORD!
— Athletics Canada (@AthleticsCanada) June 10, 2019
Congratulations @NateGraywolf on setting the new 800m ๐จ๐ฆ & ๐ record, running 1:53.8 in Portland, four seconds faster than his previous record of 1:57.78 set last year in Germany! https://t.co/8G3nyBj7qp pic.twitter.com/aixxiDQogi
What about on the field? Two more athletes bested their own previous Canadian records! First, Brittany Crew with 18.69m in the shot put.
Brittany Crew breaks her Canadian shot put record & meets 2020 Olympic standard with throw of 18.69 metres. More here: https://t.co/bMk5l3RMr9 @BrittCrew @cbcsports @CBCOlympics #Tokyo2020 pic.twitter.com/Is9zWw7Hyf
— Doug Harrison (@harrisoncbc) June 3, 2019
Then Alysha Newman at 4.76m in the pole vault, last weekend, in Guelph!
Last, here’s a fun one: Damian Warner ran the fastest-ever 100m in decathlon history. Wow!
๐จ๐ฆ @DamianWarner sitting atop the leaderboard after Day 1 at the Gotzis #Hypomeeting!
— Athletics Canada (@AthleticsCanada) May 25, 2019
100m – 10.12s (PB)(Fastest 100m ever in the decathlon, passes previous record he set of 10.15 in 2017)๐ฅ
Long Jump – 7.67m (SB)
Shot Put – 15.34m (PB)
High Jump – 2.00m (SB)
400m – 47.38s (SB) pic.twitter.com/9T0MraMVTe
We were also following OFSSAA track and field this month. Lots of great local performances and success stories.
Foster Malleck of @St_Marys_Kitch wins second @OFSAATrack gold with a first-place finish in senior boys 3000m race. pic.twitter.com/GtmXrIMiEW
— Mark Bryson ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ (@BrysonRecord) June 8, 2019
Good luck to all those racing the Canadian 10,000m and road half marathon championships this month. We’ll be watching!