Fifty -nine athletics athletes, most Canada has sent to a World Athletics Championship, will try to overcome the six medals that the 2023 team obtained in Budapest, Hungary.
The competition began on Friday night and continues until September 21 in Tokyo. Look all the action on CBCSports.CA and CBC Gem, and click here to get the complete transmission details.
Canada has sent four defending champions for the first time in the history of the World Championship: Hammel launches Ethan Katzberg and Camryn Rogers, the 800 -meter runner Marco Arop and the decatteleta Pierce Lepage.
Athletics Canada also appointed four athletes in an individual event, also the first, in the 800 male.
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SUNDAY
400 meters for menheat 6 – 6:15 am et
Christopher Morales Williams has recently shown glimpses of its shape at the beginning of last season when he directed a 44.05 seconds. Twice in his last four races, the 21 -year -old has dropped less than 45 seconds, including a better 44.85 season on July 13 at Edmonton Athletics Invitational. Morales Williams also won his third consecutive Canadian title at the upper level on August 1.
Look | Morales Williams 3rd in Ostrava Golden Spike in June:
Christopher Morales Williams de Maple, Ontario, ended third in the Golden Spike world of Golden Tour of Athletics Athletics meets a 400 -meter race in Ostrava, Czech Republic, with a time of 45.10 seconds.
400 womenheat 1 – 6:25 am et
Lauren Gale will seek to build on his 2022 world debut when he did not advance to the semifinals. He was fourth in the Canadian championship on August 1 in Ottawa, where he registered 51,80 seconds. His best season is 51.00, a remarkable improvement of his experience above and down in his first Olympic Games last summer in Paris.
100 women semifinalHeat 3 – 7:34 am et
Audrey Leduc, the Canadian lonely in the semifinals, finished third in its heat to qualify and its time of 11.26 occupied the 24 of the 24 sprinters that advanced. The Gatineau athlete, who stopped the clock at 11.06 on August 1 for his second Canadian title in a row. Leduc lowered his national record to 10.94 in Edmonton on July 13.
Look | Leduc places in third place in heating to close the semifinal bunk:
Audrey Leduc de Gatineau, which.
100 men semifinalHeat 1 – 7:45 am et
The three Canadian runners 100 in the team will appear in the semifinals. Eliezer Adjibi de Ottawa was 10.19 to finish a distance in second place of Jamaican and the favorite of the Kishane Thompson Gold Medal (9.95). Adjibi’s PB is 10.02.
Heat 2 – 7:52 am et
Jerome Blake registered 10.05 per second behind Kenny Bednarek (10.01) in the room of seven heats. Blake, 30, lowered his personal best to 9.95 in the Nacac championship last month in the Bahamas.
Heat 3 – 7:59 am et
Andre de Grasse seemed recovered from an hamstring problem in early summer and ran 10.16, 1-100 of a second of his best season. However, it has not yet run less than 10 seconds in six races this year, including heats, but Markham, Ontario, Sprinter and seven times Olympic medalist has a special ability to stand out when it matters most.
Look | Grasse looks healthy in 10.16 seconds of heat:
Andre de Grasse de Markham, Ontario, put a time of 10.16, ending second in its heat, to obtain a place in the semifinals in the World Athletics Championship.
Semifinal of 1,500 womenHeat 2 – 8:17 am et
On his 30th birthday, Debues-Stafford was a fourth of the six athletes that advanced since their heat on Saturday. His four minutes two seconds followed only his best season of 4: 01.19 and combined his effort from the Paavo Nurmi games in Finland on June 17.
“I ran like a headless chicken today, but fitness earnings in the last month leave [me] Do that and do not pay the price, “said Toronto’s native on Instagram.
All but one of the 11 competitors of debues-Stafford in their semifinal heat have executed less than four minutes this season. Its 3: 56.12 PB is from 2019. Debues-Stafford returned this year after fighting a large part of the last two seasons.
End of 10,000 meters for men – 8:30 am et
Moh Ahmed will look for its first world championship medal since its 2019 bronze at 5,000, after finishing the podium in both distances in Worlds in 2022 and 2023.
In the final of 10,000 Olympics on August 2, Ahmed made its way to second place to 100 meters from the finish line, but in a matter of second two runners blew next to him. The Canadian was fourth in 26 minutes 43.79 seconds, 34-100 ° slower than the bronze medalist.
