Athletes competing at La Classique d’athlétisme on Friday in Montreal didn’t let a sudden venue change derail their robust performances. The standout efficiency of the evening got here from Craig Thorne of Quispamsis, N.B., within the males’s 110-meter hurdles. Thorne set a brand new meet file of 13.51 seconds, simply shy of his private finest.
Thorne’s time shattered the earlier meet file of 14.04 seconds, set final 12 months by Canadian decathlete Pierce LePage. The 23-year-old presently sits on the bubble for Olympic choice within the 110m hurdles occasion, however a win on the Canadian Trials subsequent week in Montreal would seemingly safe his spot in Paris. His private better of 13.48 seconds got here on the Edmonton Athletics Invitational two weeks in the past. Canada hasn’t had a male hurdler on the Olympic Video games since Rio 2016.
Within the girls’s 1,500m, Kate Present of Cobourg, Ont., set a brand new private better of 4:06.91, breaking the 4:07 barrier for the primary time. Present’s time is the third-fastest by a Canadian this season. Like Thorne, Present additionally sits on the bubble for Olympic choice in her occasion. She might be searching for a top-two end at Trials to place herself in a powerful place for choice.
Different notable performances from the meet embody Quebec’s personal Audrey Leduc, who ran the second-fastest 100-meter time of her profession and set a brand new meet file of 11.00 seconds (+1.2 m/s). Her time can also be the quickest ever by a Canadian lady on Canadian soil. Leduc already has the Olympic normal in each the 100-meter and 200-meter occasions.
Audrey Leduc fait un temps incroyable de 11.00 dans la course Elite Prelims du 100m à #LaClassique
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— Classique d’athlétisme de Montréal (@MtlClassique) June 21, 2024
Within the girls’s 200-meter occasion, Jacqueline Madogo of Ottawa stormed to a 23.09-second win, her third-fastest run, crushing the earlier meet file and profitable by over two-tenths of a second.
Plans are underway to restore the observe at Complexe Sportif Claude Robillard in time for the trials beginning on June 26. Whereas we hope to return to the preliminary venue, the Ben Leduc Athletics Monitor didn’t cease Canadians from delivering top-tier performances as they purpose to safe their tickets to Paris.
