Weekend recap: Almond Small runs Canadian U20 200m record

A number of Canadian athletes kicked off their 2022 observe and discipline season this previous weekend south of the border. One of many high performances got here from 19-year-old Toronto sprinter Almond Small, who broke a 30-year-old Canadian U20 200m document, clocking 20.50 seconds within the 200m on the Jo Meaker Basic in Canyon, Texas. 

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— Almond Small (@_SpeedDemonn_) April 11, 2022

Small is at present working for Barton Neighborhood School in Grand Bend, Kan. He not solely broke Peter Ogilvie’s U20 Canadian document from 1991 however did so in a wind-legal time, pending official verification. His time was quick sufficient for second behind West Texas A&M College’s Benjamin Azamati from Ghana, who tied his NCAA Division II document of 20.13 seconds.

Canada’s Jerome Blake stuns favourites over 100m in Bermuda

Jerome Blake pulled off a stunner within the males’s 100m remaining on the World Athletics Continential Tour cease in Bermuda, clocking a time of 10.38 seconds into a ten/mph headwind (wind -5.6 m/s) to win forward of the U.S. duo of Erriyon Knighton and Noah Lyles, who completed second and third in 10.39 seconds. Jamaica’s Yohan Blake was fourth in 10.45 and Canada’s Aaron Brown was fifth. 

Blanchard kicks off his 2022 season

Montreal’s Mathieu Blanchard kicked off his 2022 path working season with a second-place end on the Fogo Vulcan Path 29km in Cape Verde. The race includes ascending and descending an lively volcano. The 35-year-old is coaching for one more run on the podium at UTMB this summer time.

Toronto UA Spring Run-Off 8K

On a cool spring, Saturday morning in Toronto’s Excessive Park, London, Ont.’s Jeremy Coughler and Vancouver’s Leslie Sexton have been the boys’s and ladies’s winners of the Beneath Armour Spring Run-Off. The occasion marked the beginning of the spring in-person racing season in Toronto, with Coughler breaking the tape in 23:37, whereas Sexton was the primary lady throughout the road in 27:00.

Listed here are a few of our favorite images from the 2022 UA Spring Run-Off: