Here are the Canadians to watch at World Championships

The 2022 World Championships are set to start this Friday, July 15 from Hayward Subject in Eugene, Ore. Athletics Canada has despatched a staff of 59 track and field athletes to chase glory, with lots of the names making their world championship debuts.

All 4 of Canada’s medallists on the monitor from the Tokyo Olympics will compete in Eugene, however exterior of Andre De Grasse, Evan Dunfee, Damian Warner and Mohammed Ahmed, who ought to Canadian monitor followers preserve their eyes on?

Malik Metivier (400m hurdles)

These championships would be the Malik Metivier popping out occasion within the 400mH. The 23-year-old grad pupil at Texas Tech College has dipped below 49 seconds on a number of events this season, which led him to a second-place end on the 2022 NCAA Championships. Metivier’s finest solely sits half a second shy of the Canadian 400mH report of 48.24 seconds. 

Malik brings the magic🪄

Malik Metivier of @TexasTechTF leads the lads’s 400m hurdles qualifying with a time of 48.89.#NCAATF
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— TrackTown USA (@TrackTownUSA) June 9, 2022

Metivier comes into the championships in good type and can depend on his success this yr at Hayward Subject to guide him to the 400mH ultimate. He’ll start his marketing campaign on Saturday, July 16 at 4:20 p.m. E.T. within the 400mH heats. 

Ceili McCabe (3,000m steeplechase)

The 20-year-old steeplechaser from Vancouver has had a year to remember competing for West Virginia College. She completed third on the 2021 NCAA XC Championships, set a U23 3,000m report indoors, and bronze within the steeplechase on the 2022 NCAA Monitor Subject Championships. 

Now McCabe has been named to her first senior nationwide staff, profitable the Canadian championships in a private finest time of 9:30.69. The larger the stage in her profession, the larger her performances have been.

Search for McCabe to battle alongside Canada’s Regan Yee and Grace Fetherstonhaugh within the 3,000m steeplechase heats on Saturday, July 16 at 1:35 p.m. E.T. 

Marco Arop (800m)

Going into these championships, Arop is ranked third on the earth within the 800m. He ran a close to solo 1:43.61 on the Pre-Worlds Invite in Edmonton final week and appears to be close to his private finest type. If the 800m was a one-off ultimate, Arop would win the race eight instances out of 10. He is likely one of the strongest 800m runners on the earth and continues to point out flashes of the good David Rudisha in his races. However can Canada’s quickest 800m runner final the three rounds?

The 800m is a battle, and three rounds of 800m in 4 days will definitely take its toll on the runners. Arop might want to management and preserve his velocity within the heats for him to have success within the semis and ultimate. 

The 23-year-old needs nothing in need of the world championship podium, and can do no matter it takes to get there. He’ll start his competitors within the 800m heats on Wednesday, July 20 at 8:20 p.m. E.T.

Ladies’s 4x400m relay staff

After a redeeming and heartbreaking fourth-place efficiency on the Tokyo Olympics, Canada’s 4x400m staff is again with a distinct look, stuffed with younger expertise. Kyra Constantine is the one returning athlete from the Tokyo 2020 staff, with Alycia Brown retiring and Sage Watson taking day off. This girls’s 4x400m staff is younger however proficient, with Aiyanna Stiverne and Lauren Gale each working private finest 400m instances this yr. 

The U.S. staff will likely be robust to beat for gold, particularly if their Tokyo 4x400m staff of 4 Olympic champions reunites at Hayward Subject. The younger Canadian contingent may very well be a shock staff to search out their method on the rostrum in the event that they qualify for the ultimate. The heats of the ladies’s 4x400m kick off on Saturday, July 24 at 2:10 p.m. E.T. 

Aaron Brown (100m and 200m)

At main championships, Brown nearly at all times makes the ultimate (he’s a five-time world championship finalist) however by no means the rostrum (besides within the relay). He was sixth on the 2020 Olympics within the 200m and sixth on the 2019 World Championships in Doha. If there’s one factor that has modified for Brown this season, it has been his consistency. He has received 4 of his 5 200m races this season and has run below 20.20 seconds a number of instances. 

The 30-year-old sprinter has confirmed he’s within the form of his profession, taking house each 100m and 200m titles on the Canadian championships and is destined for a shot on the 200m podium in Eugene if he can maintain off the likes of U.S. sprinters Noah Lyles and Kenny Bednarek.  

Brown will compete for Canada within the males’s 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at these championships. The 200m heats will start on Monday, July 18 at 8:05 p.m. E.T.

Lucia Stafford (1,500m)

The newly topped Canadian 1,500m champion has had an under-the-radar season on the monitor. She has solely raced the 1,500m on three events and as soon as exterior of nationals, clocking a 4:05.12 on the Portland Monitor Competition in June. The 23-year-old middle-distance runner had a breakout efficiency eventually yr’s Olympics, working back-to-back private bests within the heats and semis of the 1,500m. At 2022 World Indoors in Serbia, Stafford made her first main ultimate within the 1,500m, inserting eighth in 4:06.41.

Stafford will look to proceed her success from World Indoors and Tokyo to achieve the 1,500m ultimate in Eugene. The heats of the ladies’s 1,500m will begin on Friday, July 15 at 9:10 p.m. E.T.

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