The way forward for Canadian ladies’s 100m sprinting is sky-high, led by the spectacular performances of 16-year-old Jorai Oppong-Nketiah of Ottawa. On Friday, within the U20 100m ladies’s semi-finals on the Canadian Olympic Trials, Oppong-Nketiah set a brand new U18 nationwide report with a blazing time of 11.38 seconds (+0.9 m/s), placing her title within the dialog for the Canadian Olympic ladies’s 4x100m relay workforce.
Oppong-Nketiah got here near bettering her junior nationwide report within the U20 closing, clocking 11.39 seconds right into a headwind (-0.7 m/s). Regardless of the difficult situations, she dominated the ultimate, profitable by almost half a second over opponents two to 3 years older.
This marks the second time Oppong-Nketiah has damaged the U18 Canadian 100m report this season. She first shattered the report on the Bob Vigars Invitational in London, Ont., final month, ending second within the ladies’s elite 100m with a time of 11.51 seconds, simply earlier than turning 16.
In keeping with Ottawa Sports activities Pages, Oppong-Nketiah was first launched to trace and discipline in Grade 4 when certainly one of her elementary college academics, recognizing her pure pace, inspired her to check out for the monitor workforce.
Oppong-Nketiah’s profitable time on the Canadian Trials ranks because the fifth quickest by a U18 lady on this planet this 12 months, and the eighth quickest by a Canadian feminine (total). Her achievement has sparked discussions about her potential inclusion within the Canadian Paris 2024 ladies’s 4x100m relay pool. She is at the moment guided by Athletics Canada nationwide relay coach Glenroy Gilbert and Gordon Cave with the Ottawa Lions Observe and Area Membership.
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Jorai Oppong-Nketiah as simply set a brand new 🇨🇦 U18 report and U20 Championship report within the heats of the 100 metres along with her blazing time of 11.38 seconds!Jorai’s time additionally eclipses Farah Jacques’ Membership report of 11.49 seconds set in 2016.
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In keeping with the Athletics Canada Choice Standards for the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games: “No athlete youthful than 16 on December 31, 2024 (born in 2009 or later) could compete within the Olympic Video games.” Oppong-Nketiah simply meets this criterion, having been born in June 2008. Even when she isn’t chosen for Paris, her expertise and record-breaking performances recommend she shall be a future title to look at in ladies’s sprinting as we flip towards the L.A. 2028 Olympics.
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