Sprinter Izzy Goudros of Toronto has had a sensational begin to her 2025 indoor season at Harvard College. On Saturday, on the Battle in Beantown Indoor Traditional at Boston College, Goudros set a college document within the ladies’s 300m, surpassing the earlier mark set by 2024 Olympic champion Gabby Thomas.
Goudros gained the ladies’s 300m with a private finest time of 37.34 seconds, which at the moment stands because the sixth-fastest time within the NCAA this season. Her time was simply 10 one-hundredths of a second shy of Angela Bailey’s Canadian U23 document within the occasion, which has stood for 41 years.
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The varsity document she broke was set in 2017 by Thomas, the Paris Olympic 200m champion from Crew USA. Thomas set the previous Harvard 300m document of 37.47 seconds throughout her closing collegiate indoor season, in 2017-2018. Ten months later, Thomas forwent her final 12 months of collegiate eligibility and signed an expert contract with New Stability.
The ladies’s 300m document wasn’t the one mark Goudros set on the meet. Hours later, the 21-year-old performed a pivotal function in serving to the ladies’s 4x400m group set a college document of three:33.95, operating the second leg.
Goudros spent the final three years competing as a heptathlete at Harvard. Final 12 months, on the NCAA Observe and Discipline Championships, she completed 18th within the ladies’s heptathlon, with a cumulative rating of 5,609 factors. Her strongest occasions have all the time been the quick sprints, so it will likely be attention-grabbing to see if she totally transitions to the 200m and 400m in what might be her closing NCAA season.
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Goudros isn’t the one Canadian sprinter making noise within the NCAA this season. Twin citizen Alexia Schofield of Arizona State College holds the fourth-fastest ladies’s 300m time within the NCAA, to date, sprinting to a time of 37.03 seconds in School Station, Texas, two weeks in the past.
The Canadian document for the space is 36.94 seconds; it was set by two-time Canadian Olympian Kyra Constantine in 2022.