Three weeks in the past, sprinter Audrey Leduc inched nearer to the Olympic normal within the ladies’s 100 metres. On Saturday, she met her objective whereas shattering a long-standing Canadian document.
Leduc ran to a second-place end in 10.96 seconds open air on the LSU Alumni Gold meet in Baton Rouge, La., after clocking 11.08 and falling 1-A hundredth of a second shy of the Paris Olympic normal on March 30 on the Florida Relays.
Aleia Hobbs received in 10.88 whereas fellow American Celera Barnes was third (11.10).
Leduc’s efficiency Saturday in a authorized wind (+0.5 metres per second) broke the nationwide mark of 10.98 by the late Angela Bailey from July 6, 1987 on the Budapest Grand Prix in Hungary.
Bailey, who additionally captured a ladies’s Olympic relay silver medal in 1984, died of lung most cancers final July 31 at age 59.
WATCH | Leduc takes down Bailey’s 36-year-old Canadian 100m document:
Audrey Leduc of Gatineau, Que., stopped the clock at 10.96 seconds at a race in Baton Rouge, La., on Saturday, April 20, eclipsing the Canadian ladies’s 100-metre document set by Angela Bailey (10.98) in 1987.
The 25-year-old Leduc opened her 2023 outside season in 11.53 on the Florida Relays in Gainesville and set a then-personal better of 11.38 final July 15 on the Ontario U20 and Open Athletics Championships in Toronto.
She carried out nicely indoors earlier this yr, operating a 7.21-second PB within the ladies’s 60m semifinals on the World Athletics Indoor Championships however did not qualify among the many high eight for the ultimate, inserting 18th in Glasgow.
Leduc had gone 7.22 earlier within the day in her warmth per week after a 7.25 clocking at an occasion hosted by Laval College, the place the five-foot-seven athlete is a enterprise scholar.
In August 2022, Leduc set a Canada Video games document, stopping the clock in 11.55 seconds to win the ladies’s 100 in Thorold, Ont.
Squeezing into Olympic qualifying spot
On Sunday, two-time Canadian Olympian Evan Dunfee and Olivia Lundman secured the twenty first of twenty-two qualifying spots for Paris within the marathon race stroll combined relay on the World Athletics group championships in Antalya, Turkey.
They completed the 42.2-kilometre competitors in three hours seven minutes 10 seconds for a nationwide document, in response to Athletics Canada.
“So extremely pleased with [Olivia] gutsy race,” the 33-year-old Dunfee wrote to his X account about Lundman, 21, who he started teaching this yr. “It virtually got here utterly undone with 500 metres to go, however Liv willed herself to the end line with unimaginable willpower.”
Dunfee of Richmond, B.C., and Lundman of close by Nanaimo additionally competed within the 2022 race.
Valentina Trapletti and Francisco Fortunato of Italy had been tops amongst 64 finishers on Sunday in 2:56:45.
Groups accomplished the race in legs of 12.195 km (man), 10 km (girl), 10 km (man) and 10 km (girl).
The combined group occasion makes its Olympic debut on Aug. 7, changing the 50 km particular person competitors.
In January, Dunfee started his aggressive season by setting Canadian and North American marks within the 10,000-metre occasion with practically an 11-second PB in Canberra, Australia.
He certified for Paris within the males’s 20 km occasion final Aug. 19 when he reached the end in 1:18:03 on the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Two weeks in the past, Dunfee went 1:18:41 on the 92nd Poděbrady meet within the Czech Republic.
