Canada’s Olympic champion, Andre De Grasse, had a profitable day on the monitor on Tuesday, profitable each the boys’s 100m and 200m occasions on the 63rd Ostrava Golden Spike Continental Tour meet within the Czech Republic.
De Grasse recorded season’s finest instances within the 100m and 200m, regardless of the cool and wet circumstances. He received the 100m, beating 2021 Olympic gold medallist Marcell Jacobs, in a time of 10.10 seconds, then adopted it up with one other win within the 200m 90 minutes later, in 20.09 seconds.
Degrasse on high over 100m 👀 @De6rasse beats @crazylongjumper at @ZlataTretra with 10.10.#ContinentalTourGold
Watch 📺: https://t.co/3p8Ulw72C1 pic.twitter.com/n9snTjQM0Q— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) Might 28, 2024
“It’s a superb coaching session for me,” De Grasse advised World Athletics in a post-race interview. “I wished to come back out right here, check my health and endurance and see the place I’m at.”
For De Grasse, operating these instances in less-than-ideal circumstances simply two months earlier than the Paris Olympic Video games is an efficient signal, with the Bell Canadian Monitor and Discipline Trials 4 weeks from now. De Grasse has already hit Olympic qualification within the 200 metres, however has but to run the 100m normal of 10.00 seconds.
De Grasse making an announcement right here in Ostrava 🙌
The Canadian wins the 100m and 200m on the World Athletics Continental Tour simply 2 months out from #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/NX0PCMN0zW
— CBC Olympics (@CBCOlympics) Might 28, 2024
“It’s early within the season, however I’m proud of the consequence. The climate was slightly bit chilly for the 200, however subsequent time I’ll get the sub-20,” De Grasse stated. He’ll now head the world over to Taiwan to race one other 200m on June 2.
Charles Philibert-Thiboutot data 1,500m season’s finest
Though Quebec’s Charles Philibert-Thiboutot already hit the Olympic normal for the boys’s 1,500m occasion final yr, he has had a slower begin to the 2024 outside season than he wished. Philibert-Thiboutot opened his season with a 3:36.73 on Might 19 and adopted six days later with a 3:37.10 effort in France. On Tuesday afternoon in Ostrava, the 33-year-old ran a season’s finest 3:34.50, after placing himself ready to win with one lap to go.
The daring transfer labored out for Philibert-Thiboutot, as he knocked two seconds off his earlier finest from this season and completed fourth. He’ll compete once more within the 1,500m occasion at this Sunday’s Stockholm Diamond League in Sweden.
