The fairytale season for Canada’s Audrey Leduc continued on Friday morning on the Stade de France in Paris. Leduc ran to a nationwide report of 10.95 seconds within the heats of the ladies’s 100m, decreasing her earlier greatest by a hundredth of a second.
She received her 100m warmth in her Olympic debut, qualifying her for tomorrow’s 100m semi-final.
In a post-race interview with Canadian Working, Leduc stated she knew she was in private greatest form. “I wished a private greatest right now–I simply saved telling myself to deal with my lane.”
Though this was her debut on the world’s largest stage, Leduc says her expertise on the London Diamond League two weeks in the past ready her for this. “I wasn’t too nervous, however I wished to take every little thing in,” says Leduc.
Her earlier 100m better of 10.96 seconds was set in April on the LSU Alumni meet in Baton Rouge, La. She’s going to compete once more on Saturday night within the French capital within the ladies’s 100m semi-final. It goes on at 7:50 p.m. native (1:50 p.m. ET), with the ultimate working later within the session.
Canada’s quickest sprinter Audrey Leduc’s unconventional path to the Olympics
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