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Canadian Leaders Indoor Track and Field

March 17, 2010 By admin

Derek Drouin leads high jump

TOP CANADIAN PERFORMERS BY EVENT (INDOOR) – 2010
WINTER SEASON – MEN as of 13 March
EVENT PERF NAME DOB HOME POINTS
60 M 6.57 SAM EFFAH 88 CALGARY 1172
200 M 21.14 BRIAN BARNETT 87 TORONTO 1112
300 M 33.25 MICHAEL ROBERTSON 89 OTTAWA 1106
400 M 47.14 JONATHAN REID 87 TORONTO 1102
600 M 1:18.53 MICHAEL ROBERTSON 89 OTTAWA 1073
800 M 1:47.92 KYLE SMITH 85 TORONTO 1142
1000 M 2:23.18 OLIVER COLLIN 89 MONTREAL 1067
1500 M 3:45.2 TIM KONOVAL 84 TORONTO 1090
MILE 3:58.52 KURT BENNINGER 85 TORONTO 1149
3000 M 7:57.15 JUSTIN MARPOLE BIRD 88 VANCOUVER 1095
5000m 13:57.9 MATT BRUCE 89 TORONTO 1051
60 MH 7.74 JARED MACLEOD 80 WINNIPEG 1141
PV 5.50 JASON WURSTER 84 TORONTO 1110
HJ 2.28 DEREK DROUIN 90 ONTARIO 1138
LJ 8.02 BRIAN CHIBUDU 88 OTTAWA 1130
TJ 15.54 KURT MCCORMACK 88 ONTARIO 998
SP 21.39 DYLAN ARMSTRONG 81 KAMLOOPS 1204
HEP 5160 Joshua Kirkpatrick 87 ONTARIO 971
WT THROW 20.80 BRAD MILLAR 87 ONTARIO 947

Brianne Theisen leads multi events

TOP CANADIAN PERFORMERS BY EVENT (INDOOR) – 2010
WINTER SEASON – WOMEN as of 13 March
EVENT PERF NAME DOB HOME POINTS
60 M 7.34 TOYIN OLUMPONA 83 MISSISSAUGA 1118
200 M 23.91 TENESHIA PEART 86 CALGARY 1109
300 M 37.59 Esther Akinsulie 84 Ottawa 1136
400 M 53.34 CARLINE MUIR 87 EDMONTON 1116
600 M 1:30.48 Melissa Bishop 88 Windsor 1060
800 M 2:03.68 NICOLE EDWARDS 86 WINNIPEG 1120
1000 M 2:42.31 NICOLE EDWARDS 86 WINNIPEG 1101
1500 M 4:12.4 NICOLE EDWARDS 86 WINNIPEG 1129
MILE 4:29.42 NICOLE EDWARDS 86 WINNIPEG 1152
3000 M 9:01.13 SHEILA REID 89 NEWMARKET 1124
60 MH 7.82 PRISCILLA LOPES-SCHLIEP 82 WHITBY 1206
PV 4.55 KELSIE HENDRY 82 SASKATOON 1103
HJ 1.92 NICOLE FORRESTER 76 TORONTO 1106
LJ 6.60 TABIA CHARLES 85 TORONTO 1091
TJ 12.73 Jaideene Lowe 87 WINDSOR 964
SP 16.43 JULIE LABONTE 90 MONTREAL 957
PENT 4396 BRIANNE THEISEN 86 SASKATOON 1103
Wt Throw 18.07 Kristin Obrochta 89 Toronto
5000 15:50.53 Marie Louise Asselin 88 SARNIA 1090
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Canadians Rock!

March 15, 2010 By admin

Perdita Felicien

CANADIANS SCORE MEDALS AT WORLD INDOOR AND NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS.

Perdita Felicien of Pickering, Ontario edged Priscilla Lopes-Schliep of Whitby, Ontario at the World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar Saturday to capture the silver and bronze medals behind their archrival, Lolo Jones of the US.

Jones ran the 60 meter hurdles in 7.72 seconds as just one hundredth of a second separated our Canadian hurdlers with 7.86 to 7.87.

Dylan throws 20.92m

Dylan Armstrong of Kamloops set a new national record in the shot put as he threw 21.39m. He was edged off the podium as he was in the Beijing Olympics by 5 centimeters as Christian Cantwell of the US took the gold with 21.83m. Andrei Mikkhnevich, a Belarusian took the silver with 21.45m. as Ralf Bartels of Germany was Dylan’s spoiler with 21.44m

Kelsie Hendry of Saskatoon jumped 4.50m to take 6th place in the pole vault.

Brianne Thiesen

Brianne Theisen of Humboldt, Saskatchewan representing the University of Oregon, scored 4396 points in the pentathlon to take the gold medal at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Derek Drouin (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Derek Drouin of Corunna, Ontario, now a student at the Indiana University was a surprise winner in the high jump as he scored a personal best of 2.28m.

Mary Louise Asselin of Sarnia, Ontario and a student at West
Virginia took the silver medal in the 5000m. run with her best of 15:50.53

Sheila Reid of New Market, Ontario and Villanova University won the bronze medal in the 3000m with 9:01.13.

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Derek Drouin leads High Jump

March 9, 2010 By admin

Derek Drouin leads high jump

TOP CANADIAN PERFORMERS BY EVENT (INDOOR) – 2010
WINTER SEASON – MEN as of 7 March
EVENT PERF NAME DOB HOME POINTS
60 M 6.62 SAM EFFAH 88 CALGARY 1146
200 M 21.14 BRIAN BARNETT 87 TORONTO 1112
300 M 33.25 MICHAEL ROBERTSON 89 OTTAWA 1106
400 M 47.14 JONATHAN REID 87 TORONTO 1102
600 M 1:18.53 MICHAEL ROBERTSON 89 OTTAWA 1073
800 M 1:47.92 KYLE SMITH 85 TORONTO 1142
1000 M 2:23.18 OLIVER COLLIN 89 MONTREAL 1067
1500 M 3:45.2 TIM KONOVAL 84 TORONTO 1090
MILE 3:58.52 KURT BENNINGER 85 TORONTO 1149
3000 M 7:57.15 JUSTIN MARPOLE BIRD 88 VANCOUVER 1095
5000m 13:57.9 MATT BRUCE 89 TORONTO 1051
60 MH 7.74 JARED MACLEOD 80 WINNIPEG 1141
PV 5.50 JASON WURSTER 84 TORONTO 1110
HJ 2.26 DEREK DROUIN 90 ONTARIO 1118
LJ 8.02 BRIAN CHIBUDU 88 OTTAWA 1130
TJ 15.54 KURT MCCORMACK 88 ONTARIO 998
SP 20.85 DYLAN ARMSTRONG 81 KAMLOOPS 1171
HEP 5160 Joshua Kirkpatrick 87 ONTARIO 971
WT THROW 20.80 BRAD MILLAR 87 ONTARIO 947
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Akinsulie leads 300m marks

March 9, 2010 By admin


Esther Akinsulie

TOP CANADIAN PERFORMERS BY EVENT (INDOOR) – 2010
WINTER SEASON – WOMEN as of 7 March
EVENT PERF NAME DOB HOME POINTS
60 M 7.34 TOYIN OLUMPONA 83 MISSISSAUGA 1118
200 M 23.91 TENESHIA PEART 86 CALGARY 1109
300 M 37.59 Esther Akinsulie 84 Ottawa 1136
400 M 53.34 CARLINE MUIR 87 EDMONTON 1116
600 M 1:30.86 HELEN CROFTS 90 VANCOUVER 1052
800 M 2:03.68 NICOLE EDWARDS 86 WINNIPEG 1120
1000 M 2:42.31 NICOLE EDWARDS 86 WINNIPEG 1101
1500 M 4:12.4 NICOLE EDWARDS 86 WINNIPEG 1129
MILE 4:29.42 NICOLE EDWARDS 86 WINNIPEG 1152
3000 M 9:04.85 SHEILA REID 89 NEWMARKET 1111
60 MH 7.82 PRISCILLA LOPES-SCHLIEP 82 WHITBY 1206
PV 4.55 KELSIE HENDRY 82 SASKATOON 1103
HJ 1.92 NICOLE FORRESTER 76 TORONTO 1106
LJ 6.60 TABIA CHARLES 85 TORONTO 1091
TJ 12.33 NEB ZACHARIA 87 WINDSOR 923
SP 16.43 JULIE LABONTE 90 MONTREAL 957
PENT 4198 BRIANNE THEISEN 86 SASKATOON 1050
Wt Throw 18.07 Kristin Obrochta 89 Toronto
5000 15:58.15 Marie Louise Asselin 88 SARNIA 1075
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Top Canadian Men

March 5, 2010 By admin

Sam Effah

Sam Effah

TOP CANADIAN PERFORMERS BY EVENT (INDOOR) – 2010
WINTER SEASON – MEN as of 28 February
EVENT PERF NAME DOB HOME POINTS
60 M 6.62 SAM EFFAH 88 CALGARY 1146
200 M 21.14 BRIAN BARNETT 87 TORONTO 1112
300 M 33.25 MICHAEL ROBERTSON 89 OTTAWA 1106
400 M 47.14 JONATHAN REID 87 TORONTO 1102
600 M 1:18.53 MICHAEL ROBERTSON 89 OTTAWA 1073
800 M 1:47.92 KYLE SMITH 85 TORONTO 1142
1000 M 2:23.18 OLIVER COLLIN 89 MONTREAL 1067
1500 M 3:45.2 TIM KONOVAL 84 TORONTO 1090
MILE 3:58.52 KURT BENNINGER 85 TORONTO 1149
3000 M 7:57.15 JUSTIN MARPOLE BIRD 88 VANCOUVER 1095
5000m 14:02.4 MATT BRUCE 89 TORONTO 1035
60 MH 7.74 JARED MACLEOD 80 WINNIPEG 1141
PV 5.50 JASON WURSTER 84 TORONTO 1110
HJ 2.26 DEREK DROUIN 90 ONTARIO 1118
LJ 8.02 BRIAN CHIBUDU 88 OTTAWA 1130
TJ 15.47 JACOB ZORZELLA 90 TORONTO 990
SP 20.85 DYLAN ARMSTRONG 81 KAMLOOPS 1171
HEP 5011 DEREK DROUIN 90 ONTARIO 940
WT THROW 20.80 BRAD MILLAR 87 ONTARIO
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Teneshia Peart leads Canada with 200m in 23.91

March 3, 2010 By admin

TENESHIA PEART of Calgary captured the Junior College National Championship in the women’s 60 and 200 meters at Florissant Valley Community College in Florissant, Mo. in 2009 The Canada product has posted personal-best times of 7.41 seconds in the 60, 11.61 seconds in the 100 and 23.87 in the 200 meters. She won her indoor conference title for Texas Christian University last weekend with 23.91over 200m.

TOP CANADIANS PERFORMANCES
WINTER SEASON – WOMEN as of 28 February
EVENT PERF NAME DOB HOME POINTS
60 M 7.35 TOYIN OLUPONA 83 MISSISSAUGA 1115
200 M 23.91 TENESHIA PEART 86 CALGARY 1109
300 M 38.35 ADRIENNE POWER 81 HALIFAX 1100
400 M 53.34 CARLINE MUIR 87 EDMONTON 1116
600 M 1:30.86 HELEN CROFTS 90 VANCOUVER 1052
800 M 2:03.87 JULIA HOWARD 83 Vancouver 1117
1000 M 2:42.31 NICOLE EDWARDS 86 WINNIPEG 1101
1500 M 4:17.79 HILARY STELLINGWERFF 81 GUELPH 1087
MILE 4:29.42 NICOLE EDWARDS 86 WINNIPEG 1152
3000 M 9:04.85 SHEILA REID 89 NEWMARKET 1111
60 MH 7.82 PRISCILLA LOPES-SCHLIEP 82 WHITBY 1206
PV 4.55 KELSIE HENDRY 82 SASKATOON 1103
HJ 1.92 NICOLE FORRESTER 76 TORONTO 1106
LJ 6.60 TABIA CHARLES 85 TORONTO 1091
TJ 12.33 NEB ZACHARIA 87 WINDSOR 923
SP 16.43 JULIE LABONTE 90 MONTREAL 957
PENT 4198 BRIANNE THEISEN 86 SASKATOON 1050
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CANADA SENDS 5 TO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

March 1, 2010 By admin

OTTAWA – Athletics Canada announced today the team that will compete at the 2010 International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) World Indoor Championships. The 2010 World lndoors take place in Doha, Qatar March 12th through 14th at the Aspire Dome which seats 15,000 spectators.

Canadians aspiring to World Indoor titles in Doha

· Dylan Armstrong of Kamloops, BC will be looking to better his own national mark which he set earlier this indoor season. Armstrong broke the 12-year old shot put record; he now holds both the Canadian indoor and outdoor records.

· Pickering Ontario native Tabia Charles will take on the world’s best in the long jump. Earlier this season Tabia established a new Canadian indoor long jump record; she now holds both the indoor and outdoor long jump and the indoor and outdoor triple jump records.

· Making her first World stage appearance is Nicole Edwards of Winnipeg, MB. Edwards ran an impressive 4:29.42 in the mile earlier in January to secure her spot on the team; she will compete in the 1500 metres.

· World class hurdler Perdita Felicien of Pickering, ON goes into the event as a favourite to step on the podium.  Felicien won gold at the 2004 World Indoor Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

· Already bettering the Canadian record in the Pole Vault twice this year, Kelsie Hendry of Saskatoon, SK will take centre stage in Doha.

· The current World Leader, Whitby Ontario’s Priscilla Lopes-Schliep is looking to add gold in the 60 metre hurdles to her medal collection. Lopes-Schliep won the 100 metre hurdles bronze medal at the 2008 Olympic Games and took Silver at the 2009 World Championships.

For all the latest information on the World Indoor Championships including athlete profiles, schedule, results and more visit http://www.athletics.ca/page.asp?id=497.

At the last showing of the World Indoor Championships, the Canadian track & field team came away with a gold medal won by Tyler Christopher in the 400 metres.
The 2010 World Indoor Championships will broadcast on CBC and CBCSports.ca:

  • Friday March 12, 3:55pm – 5:00pm ET: Day 1 Highlights (Live steaming)
  • Saturday March 13, 6:35am – 11:15am ET: Afternoon Session Event Finals (Live Streaming)
  • Sunday March 14, 5:00pm – 6:00pm ET: Television Broadcast (check local listings)

Team Canada Profiles

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