World 800m champion Marco Arop has had a flawless begin to his 2024 Olympic marketing campaign. The 25-year-old has gained all his races this yr and secured his fifth straight victory on Thursday afternoon in entrance of a hometown crowd on the Edmonton Athletics Invitational.
Arop cruised to a dominant win within the males’s 800m on the World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meet, recording his second-fastest time of the season (1:44.58). He beat Mexico’s Jesus Tonatiu Lopez, who completed second in 1:45.14.
The Edmonton native, Marco Arop, reveals out in entrance of his hometown crowd on the Edmonton Athletics Invitational profitable the 800m last with a time of 1:44.58 🇨🇦👏 pic.twitter.com/DLLftRqrDs
— Athletics Canada (@AthleticsCanada) June 13, 2024
The Edmonton Athletics Invitational on the College of Alberta’s Foote Subject has been an annual cease on Arop’s competitors schedule for the final three years. In 2016, Arop began his observe and subject profession on the identical venue, competing over 400 metres. Yesterday, Arop had his household, mates and former coaches in attendance as a part of his Olympic gold marketing campaign.
In an interview with Postmedia earlier this week, Arop mirrored on returning residence to compete. “I keep in mind my first junior nationals right here,” he recalled. “That was the (2016) Olympic trials. It was a humorous race, as a result of I used to be so nervous with the group. I keep in mind going out in 51 seconds. My 400 private finest was 50-point on the time, so I used to be mainly operating a private finest via the 400 and I nonetheless had one other lap. I struggled and died.”
In 2023, Arop had a season to recollect, profitable his first world 800m title in Budapest and setting a brand new Canadian report of 1:42.82—the primary Canadian man to run below the 1:43 mark for the two-lap distance.
Shukla shines within the ladies’s 800m
Within the ladies’s 800m race in Edmonton, Toronto’s Jazz Shukla continued her spectacular 2024 marketing campaign with a 2:00.04-clocking to take down a loaded subject consisting of the nation’s prime middle-distance runners. Earlier this season, Shukla grew to become the tenth Canadian girl to interrupt the two-minute barrier for 800m, operating 1:59.94.
Shukla can have the prospect to punch her ticket to Paris in two weeks on the 2024 Bell Canadian Monitor and Subject Olympic Trials in Montreal.
For full outcomes from the 2024 Edmonton Athletics Invitational, examine right here.
