On Saturday on the Louis Riel Dome in Ottawa, Lauren Gale set the primary Canadian out of doors document of the 2024 season, within the girls’s 300 metres.
Gale, who grew up within the Ottawa space and now competes for the Ottawa Lions Observe and Subject Membership, received the 300m race on the Carleton Ravens U Sports activities Final Probability meet in 36.48 seconds. It ranks because the sixth-fastest 300m mark on the planet this yr and shaved 0.16 seconds from the earlier document set in 2000, the yr Gale was born.
Whereas Gale’s time of 36.48 seconds was set indoors on the Louis Riel Dome, it is not going to rely as a Canadian indoor document, because of the outsized size of the Dome’s monitor (400m); as an alternative, it will likely be acknowledged as a Canadian out of doors document. Her time was additionally sooner than the present Canadian indoor document of 36.94 set by Kyra Constantine in 2022, however that document will nonetheless stand since indoor information should be run on a 200m monitor
Ladonna Antoine beforehand held the nationwide document over 300 metres open air, with a time of 36.64 seconds, set in Brisbane, Australia, throughout a tune-up meet for the Sydney Olympics.
This marks the fourth time the 24-year-old has set a Canadian dash document. She additionally holds information for the 200m indoors and was a part of the Canadian 4x400m relay workforce, which set a nationwide document on the 2022 World Indoor Championships in Serbia.
