It was one other busy weekend on the observe and roads for a lot of Canadian athletes pursuing their Paris 2024 Olympic desires. On Saturday, a Canadian hurdler from Oshawa, Ont., Mariam Abdul-Rashid, punched her ticket to Paris with an enormous private greatest within the girls’s 100m hurdles on the LSU Invitational in Baton Rouge, La.
Abdul-Rashid recorded a brand new private better of 12.69 seconds, smashing her earlier mark of 12.82 by greater than a tenth of a second. She positioned second within the race from lane 9, eclipsing the Olympic customary of 12.77 seconds. She is the primary Canadian within the occasion to hit the Olympic customary and certainly one of solely 25 hurdlers worldwide.
Hitting the Olympic customary doesn’t assure Olympic choice, however it tremendously will increase the percentages for Abdul-Rashid. The one state of affairs wherein she may not be chosen is that if two Canadian 100m hurdlers have been to run quicker than her mark and in addition beat her on the Bell Canadian Observe and Area Olympic Trials in June.
Abdul-Rashid first represented Workforce Canada final summer season on the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. She had a number of breakout performances to start out 2024, reaching the semi-finals within the girls’s 60m hurdles on the World Indoor Championships and putting fourth.
Cam Levins locations eighth at Istanbul Half Marathon
The Canadian file holder for the half-marathon and marathon returned to the roads in Turkey on Sunday for the Istanbul Half. The now three-time Canadian Olympian positioned eighth general in 60 minutes and 38 seconds, solely 20 seconds shy of his nationwide file time.
That is the second-fastest half-marathon time of Levins’s profession, behind solely his Canadian file time of 60:18 from the Vancouver First Half in 2023. It is a signal of issues to come back for the 35-year-old, who’s already obtained an early nomination from Athletics Canada to the Paris Olympic workforce for the boys’s marathon.
Cam Levins 🇨🇦 finishes 8️⃣th on the Istanbul Half Marathon.
That is the second-fastest time of his profession, simply 20 seconds over his nationwide file (60:18). pic.twitter.com/yf8TRKRpUh
— Marley Dickinson (@marleydickinson) April 28, 2024
The month after he ran his Canadian file of 60:18, he set the marathon file of two:05:36 on the 2023 Tokyo Marathon, putting fifth general. With the Paris Olympics lower than 14 weeks away, it’s clear Canada’s prime marathoner is in tip-top form.
Aurora Rynda runs breakthrough 800m at Drake Relays
A former College of Michigan standout from Toronto, Aurora Rynda, ran an enormous private greatest to win the ladies’s 800m occasion on the 114th operating of the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa. Rynda smashed her earlier private greatest of two:01.35 from 2021, operating two-flat for the primary time (2:00.97), inching her nearer to the ladies’s Olympic customary of 1:59.30.
The 23-year-old mentioned on social media this outcome has been a very long time coming, and is happy issues are coming collectively on the proper time. Rynda may very well be a reputation to observe within the Canadian girls’s 800m image as we get nearer to the Canadian Olympic Trials in June.
Marco Arop runs loopy 800m on the roads in Germany
It’s one other week of the outside observe and area season, and one other week of Edmonton’s Marco Arop delivering one thing sensational. After setting a non permanent 800m world lead on the Xiamen Diamond League final week, the 25-year-old flew to Germany to race on the Adidas Adizero #RaceToRecords occasion in Nuremberg, Germany.
𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲. 🥇@marco_arop, the 2023 World Champion has one other win underneath his belt, as he takes victory within the males’s 800m distance in a fast time of 1:44:30. 😮💨
👟#Adizero Takumi Sen 10 #RoadToRecords pic.twitter.com/cOPlOP5hjP
— adidas (@adidas) April 27, 2024
Arop donned his highway flats and dominated the aggressive 800m area, which included the 2024 world indoor 800m champion, American Bryce Hoppel, crossing the end line in 1:44.30. With this spectacular efficiency, Arop is charging full steam forward to Paris, the place he’ll undoubtedly be the gold-medal favorite within the males’s 800m occasion.
