It was a record-setting afternoon at Sunday’s Paris Diamond League, with Quebec’s Charles Philibert-Thiboutot setting a brand new Canadian nationwide document within the males’s 3,000m. Philibert-Thiboutot positioned fourth with a time of seven:35.73, reducing his private finest by nearly six seconds.
Philibert-Thiboutot positioned himself on the entrance of the pack early on and was rewarded with a quick time, bettering the earlier nationwide mark of seven:36.46 held by Vancouver’s Kieran Lumb.
Final weekend on the Bell Canadian Olympic Monitor and Discipline Trials in Montreal, Philibert-Thiboutot completed second to Lumb within the 1,500m. He obtained some redemption at the moment in Paris, breaking Lumb’s nationwide document by almost a second. Each males have been named to the Canadian Olympic observe and area crew for Paris 2024, the place they’ll compete within the males’s 1,500m.
Quick #ParisDL 3K race gained by 🇰🇪Jacob Krop pic.twitter.com/O1O0yZ99Hf
— Travis Miller (@travismillerx13) July 7, 2024
That is the second nationwide document of Philibert-Thiboutot’s profession. Final 12 months, he set a North American document of 4:51.54 within the 2,000m on the Brussels Diamond League.
It was an thrilling day for Philibert-Thiboutot’s long-time coach, Félix Antoine-Lapointe, who noticed three of his athletes on the Paris Diamond League obtain private bests, led by Philibert-Thiboutot’s nationwide document. Thomas Fafard, just lately named to his first Canadian Olympic crew, additionally ran a brand new 3,000m private finest of seven:38.07 to put sixth behind his teammate and coaching associate. Fafard can be certainly one of three athletes competing for Canada within the males’s 5,000m on the Paris Olympics.
Within the males’s 3,000m steeplechase, Jean-Simon Desgagnés set a private better of 8:13.11, inserting ninth in a aggressive area. His time is the third-fastest in historical past by a Canadian steeplechaser. Desgagnés reached the ultimate ultimately 12 months’s World Championships in Budapest, the place he positioned eighth.
For full outcomes from the 2024 Paris Diamond League, examine right here.
