On the 2024 Ontario Federation of Faculty Athletic Associations (OFSAA) Observe and Area Championships, 17-year-old dash phenom Will Batley of Carp, Ont., broke a provincial highschool report that had stood for 40 years, within the senior boys 200m. Batley ran 20.95 seconds (+1.2 m/s) within the last on Saturday afternoon in London, Ont., breaking the OFSAA and Canadian highschool report.
Congratulations to Will Batley, the 2024 Senior Boys 200 Meter champion and New CANADIAN INTERSCHOLASTIC RECORD HOLDER! #2024track #LETSGO #ofsaalondon #ofsaatrack pic.twitter.com/OixoLoQp8Z
— OFSAA Observe & Area (@OFSAATrack) June 8, 2024
The Grade 11 pupil at West Carleton Excessive Faculty bettered the earlier provincial interscholastic report by a hundredth of a second. Atlee Mahorn set the report in 1984, and through his profession, he was a three-time Olympic sprinter for Canada. Mahorn held the senior 200m nationwide report till Aaron Brown broke it in 2014. That report is now held by Olympic 200m champion Andre De Grasse (19.62).
Batley, who grew up enjoying soccer, didn’t take up sprinting till highschool. He gained the boys’s 100m and 200m at OFSAA final 12 months within the junior boy’s division (for Grade 10 college students). The step as much as compete in opposition to senior college students posed no downside for Batley, as he gained OFSAA gold by two-tenths of a second. He additionally ran within the senior boys 100m, ending second to Isaac Chandra of Kenner Collegiate in Peterborough, Ont., in 10.35 seconds.
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We all know Will Batley gained the 200m race setting a Cdn report, however he additionally completed 2nd within the 100m, lacking out on gold by .002 seconds!#PhotoFinish pic.twitter.com/xyusD3WnvY
— West Carleton SS (@WestCarletonSS) June 8, 2024
Batley was certainly one of 4 athletes to set a Canadian highschool report over the weekend in London. Extra information have been set by Asia Phillips of Toronto within the senior ladies triple bounce (13.48 metres), Julia Tunks of London, Ont., within the senior ladies discus throw (56.35 metres), and Alexis Asselin within the para-ambulatory 800m (2:23.65).
This was Batley’s first sub-21-second clocking within the males’s 200m occasion. Final summer time, he represented Workforce Canada for the primary time on the 2023 NACAC U18 Championships in Costa Rica, the place he completed seventh within the 200m last. His 2024 OFSAA-winning time was solely two-one hundredths of a second off the Canadian U18 report of 20.93 (+1.6 m/s), set in 1982 by Courtney Brown.
For full outcomes from the 2024 OFSAA Championships, examine right here.
