Edmonton’s Marco Arop will get the chance to compete for a medal within the males’s 800m Olympic ultimate. On Friday morning on the Stade de France, Arop received his semi-final warmth in 1:45.05, securing one of many two computerized qualifying spots for Saturday evening’s ultimate.
Arop goals to turn into Canada’s first observe medallist on the Paris Olympic Video games. The three medals Canada has received to date have all are available in discipline occasions: pole vault and hammer throw. Arop, the reigning world champion within the 800m, has the prospect to turn into Canada’s first gold medallist within the males’s 800m occasion. Invoice Crothers is the one Canadian man ever to win an 800m medal, having received silver on the 1964 Tokyo Video games.
The 25-year-old stated his technique going into these Video games is to handle his efforts within the heats and semis, saving power for what could possibly be a quick ultimate. “It has felt nice to date,” Arop instructed Canadian Working. “I’ve been training staying composed and making it look as simple as potential.”
The lads’s 800m ultimate in Paris has the potential to be one of many biggest in historical past, that includes Arop, Kenya’s Emmanuel Wanyonyi and Algeria’s Djamel Sedjati—a 1:41 runner who has employed comparable ways to Arop within the heats and semis.
The 800m ultimate is scheduled for Saturday evening, the ultimate night of observe and discipline on the Paris 2024 Video games.
Girls’s 4x400m relay crew qualifies for ultimate
Arop wasn’t the one Canadian to punch a ticket to the subsequent spherical on Friday morning on the Stade de France. The Canadian girls’s 4x400m relay crew—composed of Lauren Gale, Kyra Constantine, Zoe Sherar and Aiyanna Stiverne—additionally certified for the ultimate, ending fourth of their warmth to safe one of many two non-automatic qualifying spots.
Qualification for the ladies’s relay ultimate got here right down to the narrowest of margins, with just one second separating seven of the eight certified groups.
“I believe this ultimate will come right down to whoever dips on the line,” Stiverne instructed Canadian Working. “We’re prepared for battle and can do no matter it takes.”
Canada completed fourth on this occasion eventually 12 months’s World Championships and took bronze on the World Relays in Might, qualifying for the 2024 Video games.
Athletics occasions on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games are happening from Aug. 1-11. At present’s protection is dropped at you by Canadian Working and New Steadiness Canada. Observe us on Twitter on Instagram for all issues Staff Canada and up-to-date unique information and content material.
