Athletics Canada Track and Field Championships Tweet Archive, Athlete Interviews, & Olympic Team Breakdown

Hot Takes & Tweet Archive

Days 1-2
- Hot Takes: link here
- Tweets

Days 3-5
- Tweets

Interviews

Olympic Team Breakdown

Notes

world athletics invite*: was previously outside the Olympic quota, but qualified after enough international athletes scratched from the event.

Q: How can an athlete make the Olympics if they are ranked 90th in the world and the quota for their event is only 42 athletes?

A: Countries are only allowed to bring 3 athletes per event to the Olympics. Also, some athletes “scratch” if they are unable to compete due to injury or other issues that may prevent them from doing so.

Q: What is the difference between world ranking, season’s best ranking, and quota rankings?

A: World rankings are based on an average of an athletes top 5 performances (or top 3 performances for races longer than the 1500m, or top 2 for multi-events and marathon) within the period between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024. The season’s best ranking is based on an athlete’s single best performance of the 2024 season (beginning January 1, 2024). The quota ranking is based on an athlete’s world ranking after accounting for a limit of 3 athletes per event per country and also athletes who have indicated that they are unable to participate at the Olympics.

100m:

Audrey Leduc
- Qualified by: standard
- World Ranking: 38
- World Ranking by season’s best: 19
- Canadian Championships result: 1st
- Other events: 200m, 4x100m
- Age: 25
Jacquelin Madogo
- Qualified by: quota (world athletics invite*)
- World Ranking: 82
- World Ranking by season’s best: 76
- Canadian Championships result: 2nd
- Other events: 200m, 4x100m
- Age: 24
Andre De Grasse
- Qualified by: standard
- World Ranking: 23
- World Ranking by season’s best: 27
- Canadian Championships result: 1st
- Other events: 200m, 4x100m
- Age: 29
Aaron Brown
- Qualified by: quota
- World Ranking: 42
- World Ranking by season’s best: 91
- Canadian Championships result: 3rd
- Other events: 200m, 4x100m
- Age: 32
Duan Asemota
- Qualified by: quota
- World Ranking: 50
- World Ranking by season’s best: 42
- Canadian Championships result: 4th
- Other events: 200m, 4x100m
- Age: 27

Just missed:

Eliezer Adjibi
- within quota, but 5th ranked Canadian (Rodney not racing 100m at Olympics, so we took 2nd, 3rd, and 4th ranked)
- World Ranking: 81
- World Ranking by season’s best: 48
- Canadian Championships result: 2nd
- Other events: 4x100m
- Age: 23

100m/110m Hurdles:

Mariam Abdul-Rashid
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 33
- World Ranking by season’s best: 33
- Canadian Championships result: 1st
- Other events: 4x100m
- Age: 26
Michelle Harrison
- Qualified by: quota
- World Ranking: 36
- World Ranking by season’s best: 57
- Canadian Championships result: 2nd
- Age: 31
Craig Thorne
- Qualified by: quota (world athletics invite*)
- World Ranking: 60
- World Ranking by season’s best: 85
- Canadian Championships result: 1st
- Age: 23

200m:

Audrey Leduc
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 85
- World Ranking by season’s best: 22
- Canadian Championships result: 1st
- Other events: 100m, 4x100m
- Age: 25
Jacqueline Madogo
- Qualified by: quota
- World Ranking: 47
- World Ranking by season’s best: 128
- Canadian Championships result: 3rd
- Other events: 100m, 4x100m
- Age: 24
Andre De Grasse
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 6
- World Ranking by season’s best: 23
- Canadian Championships result: DNS (1st, 100m)
- Other events: 100m, 4x100m
- Age: 29
Aaron Brown
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 12
- World Ranking by season’s best: 51
- Canadian Championships result: 1st
- Other events: 100m, 4x100m
- Age: 32
Brendon Rodney
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 18
- World Ranking by season’s best: 86
- Canadian Championships result: 2nd
- Other events: 4x100m
- Age: 32

400m

Lauren Gale
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 35
- World Ranking by season’s best: 22
- Canadian Championships result: 2nd
- Other events: 4x400m
- Age: 24
Zoe Sherar
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 41
- World Ranking by season’s best: 40
- Canadian Championships result: 1st
- Other events: 4x400m
- Age: 24
Christopher Morales Williams
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 16
- World Ranking by season’s best: 1
- Canadian Championships result: 1st
- Age: 19

400m Hurdles:

Savannah Sutherland
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 25
- World Ranking by season’s best: 7
- Canadian Championships result: DNS (3rd, 400m)
- Other events: 4x400m
- Age: 20

800m:

Jazz Shukla
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 34
- World Ranking by season’s best: 11
- Canadian Championships result: 1st
- Age: 25
Marco Arop
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 1
- World Ranking by season’s best: 9
- Canadian Championships result: 1st
- Age: 25

1500m:

Lucia Stafford:
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 38
- World Ranking by season’s best: 40
- Canadian Championship result: 1st
- Age: 25
Simone Plourde:
- Qualified by: quota
- World Ranking: 57
- World Ranking by season’s best: 82
- Canadian Championship result: 3rd
- Age: 24
Kate Current
- Qualified by: quota (world athletics invite*)
- World Ranking: 70
- World Ranking by season’s best: 98
- Canadian Championship result: 2nd
- Age: 26
Charles Philibert-Thiboutot
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 27
- World Ranking by season’s best: 55
- Canadian Championship result: 2nd
- Age: 33
Kieran Lumb
- Qualified by: quota
- World Ranking: 39
- World Ranking by season’s best: 52
- Canadian Championship result: 1st
- Age: 25

3000m Steeplechase:

Ceili McCabe
- Qualified by: quota
- World Ranking: 21
- World Ranking by season’s best: 20
- Canadian Championship result: 1st
- Age: 22
Regan Yee
- Qualified by: quota
- World Ranking: 27
- World Ranking by season’s best: 37
- Canadian Championship result: 2nd
- Other events: 5000m
- Age: 29
Jean-Simone Desgagnés
- Qualified by: quota
- World Ranking: 12
- World Ranking by season’s best: 15
- Canadian Championship result: 1st
- Age: 25

Just Missed

Grace Featherstonhaugh
- 5 points outside quota
- World Ranking: 53
- World Ranking by season’s best: 72
- Canadian Championships result: 3rd
- Age: 23

5000m:

Regan Yee
- Qualified by: quota
- World Ranking: 74
- World Ranking by season’s best: 76
- Canadian Championship result: DNS (2nd, steeplchase)
- Other events: 3000m Steeplechase
- Age: 29
Briana Scott
- Qualified by: quota (world athletics invite)
- World Ranking: 87
- World Ranking by season’s best: 169
- Canadian Championship result: 2nd
- Age: 34
Mohammed Ahmed
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 17
- World Ranking by season’s best: 14
- Canadian Championship result: 1st
- Other events: 10,000m
- Age: 33
Ben Flanagan
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 47
- World Ranking by season’s best: 50
- Canadian Championship result: 3rd
- Age: 29
Thomas Fafard
- Qualified by: quota
- World Ranking: 37
- World Ranking by season’s best: 53
- Canadian Championship result: 2nd
- Age: 25

Just Missed

Gabriela Debues-Stafford
- 1 point outside quota
- World Ranking: 98
- World Ranking by season’s best: 130
- Canadian Championships result: 1st
- Age: 28

10,000m:

Mohammed Ahmed
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 5
- World Ranking by season’s best: 14
- Canadian Championship result: 1st
- Other events: 5,000m
- Age: 33

Marathon:

Malindi Elmore
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 166
- World Ranking by season’s best: N/A
- Canadian Championship result: N/A
- Age: 44
Cam Levins
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 80
- World Ranking by season’s best: N/A
- Canadian Championship result: N/A
- Age: 35
Rory Linkletter
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 297
- World Ranking by season’s best: 108
- Canadian Championship result: N/A
- Age: 27

20km Racewalk:

Evan Dunfee
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 4
- World Ranking by season’s best: 24
- Canadian Championship result: N/A
- Other events: Marathon Racewalk relay
- Age: 33

Pole Vault:

Alysha Newman:
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 9
- World Ranking by season’s best: 4
- Canadian Championship result: 1st
- Age: 30
Anicka Newell
- Qualified by: quota
- World Ranking: 37
- World Ranking by season’s best: 22
- Canadian Championship result: 2nd
- Age: 30

Shot Put:

Sarah Mitton
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 2
- World Ranking by season’s best: 1
- Canadian Championship result: 1st
- Age: 28

Hammer Throw:

Camryn Rogers
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 1
- World Ranking by season’s best: 2
- Canadian Championship result: 1st
- Age: 25
Ethan Katzberg
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 1
- World Ranking by season’s best: 1
- Canadian Championship result: 1st
- Age: 22
Rowan Hamilton
- Qualified by: quota
- World Ranking: 13
- World Ranking by season’s best: 18
- Canadian Championship result: 2nd
- Age: 24
Adam Keenan
- Qualified by: quota
- World Ranking: 24
- World Ranking by season’s best: 68
- Canadian Championship result: 3rd
- Age: 30

Decathlon:

Pierce Lepage
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 1
- World Ranking by season’s best: N/A
- Canadian Championship result: N/A
- Age: 28
Damian Warner
- Qualified by: entry standard
- World Ranking: 2
- World Ranking by season’s best: 4
- Canadian Championship result: N/A (1st, long jump)
- Age: 34

Relays:

4x100m Women: Audrey Leduc, Jacqueline Madogo, Mariam Abdul-Rashid, Marie-Éloïse Leclaire, Crystal Emmanuel, Sade McCreath

4x100m Men: Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Duan Asemota, Brendon Rodney, Eliezer Adjibi, Jerome Blake

4x400m Women: Lauren Gale, Zoe Sherar, Savannah Sutherland, Jasneet Nijjar, Kyra Constantine, Aiyanna Stiverne, Madeline Price

Marathon Racewalk Mixed Relay: Evan Dunfee, Olivia Lundman