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Brannen, Zelinka set Olympic standards

May 29, 2012 By

Nathan Brannen and Jessica Zelinka record Olympic A+ standards

Nate Brannen

Nate Brannen

Jessica Zelinka of London, Ont., finished in sixth place at the IAAF Combined Events Challenge Hypo-Meeting in Gotzis, Austria this past weekend.  The athlete who lives and trains in Calgary amassed a score of 6393 points in the seven event heptathlon, surpassing the Olympic A+ standard.  Zelinka’s performance stands as the second best all-time heptathlon score by a Canadian athlete behind her Canadian record of 6490 set at the 2008 Olympic Games.  Zelinka now needs a top three finish at the Track and Field Trials to secure her spot on the 2012 Olympic Games team.   [Read more…]

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Moiben sets Ottawa Marathon record

May 27, 2012 By

Kenyan Laban Moiben sets new Ottawa Marathon event record

Laban Moiben sets Course Record in Ottawa Marathon 2012

Laban Moiben sets Course Record in Ottawa Marathon 2012

Réjean Chiasson and Lisa Avery top Canadian finishers

May 27 – OTTAWA – Twenty-eight-year old Kenyan Laban Moiben today broke the Ottawa Marathon event record in a time of 2:09:12, shaving 19 seconds off the previous time set in 2009. [Read more…]

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Mutai wins Ottawa 10k 2012

May 27, 2012 By
Geoffrey Mutai wins Ottawa 10k 2012

Geoffrey Mutai wins Ottawa 10k 2012

May 26, 2012 – OTTAWA – With a time of 27:41, 30-year-old Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai led a talented field of elite racers across the finish line of the 10K distance in this evening’s Tamarack Homes Ottawa Race Weekend. [Read more…]

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Roy, and Stilwell lead wheelchair racers

May 16, 2012 By
Wheelchair Racers

Wheelchair Racers

OTTAWA – Eighteen of Canada’s best wheelchair racers, including world record holders Diane Roy of Sherbrooke, Que., and Michelle Stilwell of Nanoose Bay, B.C., have traveled to Switzerland to compete in a series of meets being held May 17, 19 and 20. [Read more…]

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Ottawa records in jeopardy

May 15, 2012 By
Teyba Erkesso for Ottawa

Teyba Erkesso for Ottawa

MAY 15 – OTTAWA – Confirmation of top-ranked runners in the 2012 Tamarack Homes Ottawa Race Weekend is shaping the May 27 marathon into one of the most highly anticipated spectator sports of the season. [Read more…]

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Canada Team for World Race Walking Cup

May 11, 2012 By
Bruno Carriere - Canada Walk

Bruno Carriere - Canada Walk

Athletics Canada’s entry in the 2012 IAAF World Race Walking Cup has arrived in Saransk, Russia and is ready to face competitors from over 60 other countries this weekend.  Large crowds are expected to gather around the 2-kilometre loop road course situated in the heart of the capital of the Republic of Mordovia.      [Read more…]

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Diamond League series begins

May 11, 2012 By
Canadian Hurdlers

Canadian Hurdlers

Four of Canada’s top five internationally decorated women’s sprint hurdlers will be in action today at the 2012 Diamond League series kick off in Doha, Qatar.  Perdita Felicien of Pickering, Ont., Phylicia George of Markham, Ont., Nikkita Holder of Pickering, Ont., and Priscilla Lopes-Schliep of Whitby, Ont., will all be in the same race in what is sure to be a preview of the upcoming Track and Field Trials.  Of course the Trials later this summer will determine which three of Canada’s fab five hurdlers earn the right to don the maple leaf at the Olympic Games.  The fifth member of Canada’s hurdling powerhouse is Angela Whyte of Edmonton, Alta who has already notched the Olympic A standard but is not racing in Doha.   [Read more…]

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Mutai for Ottawa 10K

May 10, 2012 By
Geoffrey Mutai for Ottawa 10K

Geoffrey Mutai for Ottawa 10K

 

Organizers of the Tamarack Homes Ottawa Race Weekend today confirmed 30-year-old Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya will compete in the 10K race on May 26, 2012. [Read more…]

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Theisen Leads and other news

May 8, 2012 By

Brianne Theisen sets World leading mark at Pac-12 Championships

Brianne Theisen

Brianne Theisen

At the PAC-12 Championships in Eugene, Oregon Brianne Theisen of Humboldt, Sask., set the world leading mark and hit the Olympic A+ standard with a performance of 6353-points in the seven event heptathlon discipline.  “I’m on top of the world right now,” said Theisen. “I did everything I wanted to do, and I’m so happy. All I cared about was the Olympics, so doing that was the greatest thing in the world. I didn’t even care that it was (6,353), as long as it was 6,150 (the Olympic A standard)”. [Read more…]

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Lopes-Schliep, Mason achieve standards

May 3, 2012 By
Meeting International de Guadeloupe

Meeting International de Guadeloupe

Gossier, Guadeloupe – After taking a year off to give birth and in her first outdoor race since the Diamond League Final in September 2010, Priscilla Lopes-Schliep of Markham, Ont., finished third in the 100-metre hurdles at the Meeting International de Guadeloupe in an Olympic A standard time of 12.95 seconds. [Read more…]

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