On Saturday, Canadian Jazz Shukla turned the tenth Canadian lady in historical past to run below the 2-minute mark within the 800m, clocking 1:59.94 to win her race on the Sound Operating Observe Fest in Los Angeles.
A rising star in Canadian center distance observe, Shukla was thrilled together with her outcome, telling reporters after the race that she “executed the way in which [she] wished to”, gaining momentum within the second half.
“I knew it could be shut,” she added within the interview, referring to breaking two minutes. “I went once I felt the urge to… I’m actually, actually joyful.”
The 25-year-old from Toronto was the one lady to interrupt two minutes at this weekend’s occasion. Shukla has but to signify Canada at a World Championships or Olympics on the senior degree, however is making a robust case for herself for potential choice this 12 months.
Additionally racing within the ladies’s 800m, Canadian Olympian Madeleine Kelly ran 2:03.99 in warmth one, ending tenth.
Different notable Canadian outcomes
The ladies’s 800m wasn’t the one race that noticed Canadians run noteworthy occasions.
Taking second in her warmth for the ladies’s 1500m, Olympian Lucia Stafford clocked 4:03.87, working simply 1.3 seconds off Olympic customary. Quebec’s Simone Plourde took fifth within the race, setting a brand new PB over the gap in a time of 4:05.92.
Cameron Proceviat took fourth within the males’s 1500m, working 3:37.56.
Vancouver’s John Homosexual took sixth within the males’s 3000m steeplechase with a time of 8:30.46.
Katelyn Ayers of Victoria took ninth within the ladies’s 5000m, working 15:50.42.
The subsequent vital upcoming race for Canadian observe and area would be the 2024 Observe & Area Trials going down in Montreal over June 26 to 30, the place athletes may have a last likelihood to battle for spots to this summer season’s 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris.
