Quebec’s Audrey Leduc broke a 36-year-old Canadian document within the ladies’s 100m on Saturday, clocking 10.96 on the LSU Alumni Gold, held at Louisiana State College. Leduc bested each Angela Bailey‘s document of 10.98 seconds, set in 1987, and her personal PB of 11.08. Louisiana-based sprinter Aleia Hobbs got here in forward of Leduc, in 10.88 seconds, and rounding out the rostrum was California’s Celera Barnes in 11.10.
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“The race felt wonderful, it was not good and that’s okay,” 25-year-old Leduc informed Canadian Working post-race. “The season is younger.” Whereas she was completely happy along with her time, Leduc felt her physique positioning in the beginning and finish of the race wanted work.
Together with her record-breaking race, Leduc has punched her qualifying ticket to the 2024 Paris Olympics, and upon choice for Staff Canada, the 25-year-old athlete would develop into solely the second Quebec runner in historical past to qualify for the 100m occasion. Solely Julie Rocheleau completed this feat on the Seoul Olympics in 1988.
Leduc’s 2024 season has already gotten off to a exceptional begin. In March, on the USPORTS Championships, she received gold within the 60m and led the Laval ladies’s 4 × 200m group to a silver medal. On March 30, on the Florida Relays in Gainesville, Florida, Leduc ran what was (on the time) an enormous private finest within the 100m, clocking 11.08 and eclipsing her earlier finest by 0.30 seconds.
Leduc additionally competes within the lengthy soar; in February she was chosen as one in all Beneath Armour U Sports activities Athletes of the Week.
Leduc is able to see what the remainder of the season will convey: “I’m very completely happy that I’ve accomplished the Olympic commonplace and the Canadian document. I’m excited to run once more.”