On March 3, Athletics Canada introduced the 18-member crew that can signify Canada on the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia from March 18-20. This crew is made up of six males and 12 ladies who’ve efficiently achieved the World Athletics Indoor customary of their occasion. Athletics Canada has chosen to ship an skilled crew, with 16 out of the 18 athletes chosen having represented Canada on the world stage beforehand.
Warner, Mitton and Debues-Stafford to guide Workforce Canada at 2022 World Indoor Championship.
Occasion runs from March 18-20 in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Toronto native and Bowerman Monitor Membership member Gabriela DeBues-Stafford headlines the crew, sitting at fifth within the World Athletics rankings over the three,000m and first within the 5,000m. DeBues-Stafford has had a outstanding indoor season, breaking the Canadian indoor 3,000m and 5,000m information in back-to-back weekends. In Serbia, DeBues-Stafford will likely be amongst these contending for a medal within the ladies’s 3,000m.
Canada’s 2021 Lou Marsh Award winner, Damian Warner, who received gold within the decathlon on the Tokyo Olympics, was additionally named to Workforce Canada, competing within the indoor heptathlon. Warner received silver on the 2018 World Indoor Championships on this occasion and he’ll be trying to improve that to gold in Serbia.
That was the one medal a Canadian introduced dwelling from in 2018. Workforce Canada’s head coach Glenroy Gilbert expects this yr’s crew to contend for top placings throughout all disciplines in Birmingham.
Congratulations to Lauren Gale (@GaleLaurennn) as she was named to Workforce Canada for the upcoming World Indoor Championships to be held in Belgrade, Serbia.
Gale will likely be a member of the 4x400m relay crew.
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There are excessive expectations on what may very well be Canada’s greatest 4x400m ladies’s crew ever, comprised of Natassha MacDonald, Lauren Gale, Kyra Constantine, Micha Powell and Sage Watson. The ladies’s 4x400m crew completed fourth on the Tokyo Olympics and will likely be on the lookout for redemption this time round in Serbia.
Indoor Worlds Workforce (data through Athletics Canada)
Athletes
- Bolade Ajomale (Richmond Hill, Ont.) – Males’s 60 metres
- Cameron Proceviat (Burnaby, B.C.) – Males’s 400 metres
- Damian Warner (London, Ont.) – Males’s Heptathlon
- Ehab El-Sandali (Toronto, Ont.) – Males’s 3,000 metres
- Gabriela DeBues-Stafford (Toronto, Ont.) – Ladies’s 3,000 metres
- John Homosexual (Kelowna, B.C.) – Males’s 3,000 metres
- Julie-Anne Staehli (Lucknow, Ont.) – Ladies’s 3,000 metres
- Kyra Constantine (Brampton, Ont.) – Ladies’s 4×400 metres
- Lauren Gale (Ottawa, Ont.) – Ladies’s 4×400 metres
- Lindsey Butterworth (North Vancouver, B.C.) – Ladies’s 800 metres
- Lucia Stafford (Toronto, Ont.) – Ladies’s 1,500 metres
- Madeleine Kelly (Pembroke, Ont.) – Ladies’s 800 metres
- Marco Arop (Edmonton, Alta.) – Males’s 800 metres
- Micha Powell (Toronto, Ont.) – Ladies’s 4×400 metres
- Michelle Harrison (Saskatoon, Sask.) – 60 metres hurdles
- Sage Watson (Drugs Hat, Alta.) – Ladies’s 4×400 metres
- Sarah Mitton (North York, Ont.) – Shot put
In keeping with Athletics Canada:
a second listing of athletes who met the Athletics Canada indoor qualification customary of their respective occasions will likely be added to the crew if they seem as “Certified by Entry Commonplace” or “In World Rankings quota” on the March 9 World Athletics rankings listing (right here) and the quota locations stay open of their occasion.
The 2022 World Indoor Championships will kick off on March 18 and run till March 20.
