Canada’s most embellished observe and area Olympian, Andre De Grasse, is formally heading to his third Olympic Video games. On Friday evening in Montreal, De Grasse gained the boys’s 100m in 10.20 seconds (-0.3 m/s) to punch his ticket to Paris 2024. That is his first nationwide title within the 100m occasion in seven years.
There was a little bit of confusion on the end of the boys’s 100m, as Ottawa’s Eliezer Adjibi was first awarded the nationwide title. After a photograph end overview, Adjibi handed over the flag to De Grasse, who beat him by solely three one-hundredths of a second. The defending nationwide champion, Aaron Brown, rounded out the rostrum in 10.25 seconds.
Though De Grasse didn’t get out of the blocks as quick as he needed to, he mentioned his efficiency was an enormous confidence booster. “It’s been two or three years since I’ve been operating this quick,” says De Grasse. “I’m attempting to make use of the momentum and take myself by these races.”
Seemingly becoming a member of De Grasse within the 100m occasion in Paris is Brendon Rodney, who completed fifth within the 100m ultimate in 10.31, and Brown. Rodney hit the Olympic normal of 10.00 final 12 months within the 100m heats on the 2023 Canadian Championships. Brown sits effectively contained in the World Athletics choice quota, and his third-place end result will solidify his place on factors come July 7.
Canadian sprinting is at an all-time excessive with the highest six males ending practically inside a tenth of a second of each other. De Grasse believes the boys’s 4x100m relay group has an actual shot at Olympic gold, one thing that has not been completed since Atlanta 1996. “If we are able to get the stick round, we all know we are able to problem the U.S., Italy and Jamaica,” says De Grasse.
“I needed to say, I’m again. It’s been two-three years since I’ve run this quick.”
Andre De Grasse missed the 100m ultimate at 🇨🇦 nationals final 12 months. Tonight, he gained his first nationwide title within the distance since 2017. 👏#ACTrials24 pic.twitter.com/UsTIEfm5Kr
— Canadian Operating (@CanadianRunning) June 29, 2024
Leduc’s dream season continues
Within the girls’s 100m ultimate, Audrey Leduc of Gatineau, Que., punched her ticket to her first Olympic Video games with a win in 11.20 seconds (-0.1 m/s). It has been a whirlwind season for Leduc, who simply three months in the past had no Canadian data to her title and was simply competing for Université Laval in U SPORTS.
Since April, Leduc has achieved Olympic requirements and Canadian data in each the 100m and 200m, plus helped the Canadian girls’s 4x100m relay group get to the Olympics for the primary time since Rio 2016.
Ottawa’s Jacqueline Madogo completed second to Leduc in 11.36 seconds, and Marie-Éloïse Leclair of Montreal rounded out the rostrum in entrance of a house crowd for third in 11.44, simply shy of her private greatest.
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