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Savannah Sutherland units Canadian 400m hurdles file at NCAA Championships

Savannah Sutherland of Borden, Sask., has been on a tear this season, competing for the College of Michigan within the NCAA. On Thursday evening at Hayward Discipline in Eugene, Ore., Sutherland’s nice type continued within the preliminary spherical of the 2024 NCAA Observe and Discipline Championships, with the 20-year-old setting a brand new Canadian file within the 400m hurdles occasion.

Sutherland ran an enormous private better of 54.04 seconds to win her warmth and advance to Saturday’s NCAA hurdles remaining, the place she is going to goal to defend the NCAA 400m hurdles title she gained final 12 months. Her record-setting time eclipsed Sage Walker’s (previously Watson) current nationwide file of 54.32 seconds, set within the semi-finals on the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar.

That is the second Canadian file of Sutherland’s profession. She additionally holds the nationwide indoor 400m file of 51.60, which she ran on the 2023 NCAA Indoor Observe and Discipline Championships in New Mexico.

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Savannah Sutherland reached the semi-finals within the 400m hurdles on the 2023 World Championships in Budapest at 19. Photograph: James Rhodes (@jrhodesathletics)

Sutherland made her senior Staff Canada debut final 12 months in Budapest at age 19, reaching the semi-finals within the 400m hurdles occasion and will probably be a reputation for Canadian monitor and area followers to observe on the Paris Olympics this summer time.

Canadian thrower wins males’s NCAA title

Canada has emerged as a worldwide powerhouse within the hammer throw occasion, and Chilliwack, B.C. native Rowan Hamilton is the subsequent man up. On Wednesday on the 2024 NCAA Observe and Discipline Championships, Hamilton threw a personal-best 77.18 metres for the College of California to win the boys’s hammer throw.

Hamilton is the primary College of California males’s particular person monitor and area champion in 13 years, and the primary to win the hammer throw occasion since 1922.

He had beforehand gained three nationwide collegiate titles whereas representing the College of British Columbia, the place he delivered the 27 longest throws in Nationwide Affiliation of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) historical past. Hamilton’s throw was only a metre shy of the Paris Olympic commonplace of 78.20m, however this efficiency places him contained in the World Rankings quota for potential choice.

On the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, Hamilton simply missed the ultimate within the males’s hammer throw. His compatriot and buddy, Ethan Katzberg, threw a nationwide file of 81.25 metres within the remaining and have become the primary Canadian man to win the occasion.

For full outcomes from the 2024 NCAA Championships, verify right here.


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