On Monday, Athletics Canada introduced the roster of 11 athletes set to characterize Canada on the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, from March 21- 23. Whereas the meet will mark some athletes’ Group Canada debut, reigning indoor world champion Sarah Mitton is out to defend her title, whereas Olympians Lucia Stafford, Christopher Morales Williams and Audrey Leduc will look to proceed making their mark on the worldwide stage.
Eight of the 11 staff members competed on the Paris Olympics, whereas seven additionally represented Canada finally 12 months’s World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. Mitton of Brooklyn, N.S. was the one athlete to medal finally 12 months’s championships, profitable gold within the girls’s shot put.
“I’m used to being the underdog, however coming in because the defending champion and world chief places a little bit of a goal on my again,” Mitton stated in a press launch. “I’m in higher throwing type proper now than final 12 months in Glasgow, so I feel it simply helps my confidence heading into Nanjing.”
Mitton will compete on the primary day of the championships: March 21.
Three athletes will make their main championship debut for Group Canada in Nanjing: Canadian U Sports activities standout Sienna MacDonald and Tatiana Aholou of Laval, Que., compete within the girls’s 60mH, whereas Toronto’s Aurora Rynda will make a first-time world indoor look within the girls’s 800m.
Meet the staff
Audrey Leduc (Gatineau, Que.) – 60m
Aurora Rynda (Toronto) – 800m
Christopher Morales Williams (Vaughan, Ont.) – 400m
Kieran Lumb (Vancouver) – 1,500m
Lucia Stafford (Toronto) – 1,500m
Malachi Murray (Edmonton) – 60m
Sade McCreath (Ajax, Ont.) – 60m
Sarah Mitton (Brooklyn, N.S.) – shot put
Sienna MacDonald (Airdrie, Alta.) – 60m hurdles
Simone Plourde (Montreal) – 1,500m
Tatiana Aholou (Laval, Que.) – 60m hurdles
The provisional listing:
Three further athletes have been added to the provisional roster, pending acceptance and race capability selections by different nations.
Foster Malleck (London, Ont.) – 1,500m
Norris Spike (Brampton, Ont.) – 60m
Robert Heppenstall (Hamilton) – 800m
Click on right here for the occasion schedule for the 2025 World Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China.