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Athletics Canada names 27 athletes for 2024 World Athletics Relays


On Thursday, Athletics Canada announced a team of 27 athletes who will race at the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas on May 4 and 5. The team, comprising Olympic medallists, world championship gold medallists and up-and-coming talent, will compete for spots at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

The Canadians will race in each of the five disciplines that make up the program at the World Relays: men’s and women’s 4x100m and 4x400m, plus the mixed 4x400m.

With a star-studded line-up of Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake and Brendon Rodney, among others, the full men’s 4×100 team will seek redemption after struggling in the heats in 2023 (on the same night that De Grasse ran the 200m final). The team earned silver medals at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and gold at the 2022 world championships in Eugene.

This will be Canada’s first trip to World Athletics Relays since the 2019 event in Yokohama, Japan. The Canadian mixed 4×400 metre team of Austin Cole, Aiyanna Stiverne, Zoe Sherar and Philip Osei took silver that year.

In a press release by Athletics Canada, Sherar said, “the main goal is to qualify both the women’s 4×400 and mixed 4×400 for Paris. That is first and foremost.” Shehar helped her team to a fourth-place finish at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. She added, “I think getting on the podium would also be a goal. It is very early in the season, but our group has shown that we are ready to run fast now, and with a couple more races, I think we will be set up well to run some fast times.”

Team Canada

Here is the list of athletes who will travel to the Bahamas:

Athlete Event(s) Hometown Club Coach Branch
Aaron Brown M4x100m Toronto, ON Star Athletics Dennis Mitchell Ontario
Andre De Grasse M4x100m Markham, ON The Speed Academy Rana Reider Ontario
Brendon Rodney M4x100m Etobicoke, ON Sprintec Maurice Wilson Ontario
Jerome Blake M4x100m Kelowna, BC/C.-B. Okanagan Athletics Club Rana Reider British Columbia
Malachi Murray M4x100m Edmonton, AB Capital City Track Club Rob Fisher Alberta
Duan Asemota M4x100m Ajax, ON The Speed Academy Charles Allen Ontario
Audrey Leduc W4x100m Laval, QC Club d’athlétisme de Gatineau Fabrice Akué Quebec
Sade McCreath W4x100m Ajax, ON Extreme Velocity Charles Allen Ontario
Jacqueline Madogo W4x100m Guelph, ON Royal City Athletics Club Jason Kerr Ontario
Crystal Emmanuel W4x100m Toronto, ON Flying Angels Academy Charles Allen Ontario
Donna Ntambue W4x100m Montreal, QC McGill Olympic Club Fabrice Akué Quebec
Marie-Éloïse Leclair W4x100m Candiac, QC Saint-Laurent Select Tom Dickson Quebec
Christopher Morales Williams M4x400m / Mixed 4x400m Maple, ON Speed Academy Athletics Club Tony Sharpe Ontario
Myles Misener-Daley M4x400m / Mixed 4x400m Hamilton, ON Hamilton Olympic Club Avery Anderson Ontario
Jalon White M4x400m / Mixed 4x400m Toronto, ON Project Athletics Wellesley Johnson Ontario
Michael Roth M4x400m / Mixed 4x400m St Thomas, ON St Thomas Legion Track and Field Harry Statsos Ontario
Will Floyd M4x400m / Mixed 4x400m Seattle, WA Unattached Jarius Cooper British Columbia
Marco Arop M4x400m / Mixed 4x400m Edmonton, AB Adidas Chris Woods Alberta
Ibrahim Ayorinde M4x400m / Mixed 4x400m Oakville, ON Oakville Renegades Charles Allen Ontario
Callum Robinson M4x400m / Mixed 4x400m Saanich, BC Unattached Ronald Hewer British Columbia
Kyra Constantine W4x400m / Mixed 4x400m Brampton, ON Project Athletics Vincent Anderson Ontario
Zoe Sherar W4x400m / Mixed 4x400m Toronto, ON Royal City Athletics Club Jason Kerr Ontario
Aiyanna Stiverne W4x400m / Mixed 4x400m Laval, QC Unattached Ronald Morency Quebec
Lauren Gale W4x400m / Mixed 4x400m Ottawa, ON Ottawa Lions Gordon Cave Ontario
Alyssa Marsh W4x400m / Mixed 4x400m Whitby, ON Empire Athletics Gary Evans Ontario
Brooke Overholt W4x400m / Mixed 4x400m St. Marys, ON London Legion Track and Field Alliance Justin Byron Ontario
Madeline Price W4x400m / Mixed 4x400m Toronto, ON Unattached Mark Mueller Ontario
Bolade Ajomale* M4x100m Woodbridge, ON Flying Angels Charles Allen Ontario

You can watch the World Athletics Relays live on CBC.ca and on TV on CBC Sports.



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