Vancouver’s Ceili McCabe had a superb night time in Los Angeles on Friday, profitable the ladies’s 3,000m steeplechase occasion on the Los Angeles Grand Prix in a time of 9:20.58–surpassing the Olympic normal of 9:23.00 by two and a half seconds and setting a brand new Canadian file within the course of.
McCabe additionally defeated the 2022 world champion within the occasion, Norah Jeruto of Kazakhstan (who completed third). Jeruto is the topic of an ongoing doping investigation.
This will probably be McCabe’s first journey to the Olympics; she has represented Canada on the previous two World Athletics Championships. McCabe is a nine-time All-American in cross-country and monitor at West Virginia College.
The earlier Canadian file of 9:22.40 belonged to Geneviève Lalonde, and was set on the Tokyo Olympics; Lalonde lowered the file twice in Tokyo–as soon as within the semi-final and once more within the last. Lalonde and her companion turned mother and father in 2023, and she or he has not but returned to competitors.
McCabe gained the Canadian cross-country championships in 2023.
Canada’s Grace Featherstonhaugh completed eleventh, in 9:32.62; Alycia Butterworth was sixteenth, in 9:59.17. Regan Yee didn’t end.
Desgagnés wins males’s steeple
In the meantime, Jean-Simon Desgagnés gained the lads’s 3,000m steeplechase in 8:16.49–the second quickest time of his profession and solely a second and a half off the Olympic normal of 8:15:00. Desgagnés will race once more on the Stockholm Diamond League on June 2.
Competitors continues in Los Angeles right this moment, with sprints, hurdles, 800m and 1,500m occasions. For full outcomes, click on right here.
