On Tuesday, Athletics Canada introduced the names of 48 athletes who will make up Workforce Canada on the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris, going down from July 26 to August 11. The crew will include 25 girls and 23 males, together with 22 returning Olympic crew members and 26 athletes making their debut.
Canada’s six Olympic medalists from Tokyo 2020 shall be returning for Paris 2024, headlined by decathlon gold medallist Damian Warner and 200m champion Andre De Grasse. They are going to be joined by Evan Dunfee (20K race stroll), Moh Ahmed (males’s 5,000m), and the lads’s 4x100m relay crew, consisting of the identical silver-medal-winning quartet of De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Brendon Rodney, and Jerome Blake, with the addition of first-time Olympians Duan Asemota, Malachi Murray, Elizier Adjibi as alternates.
#TeamCanada observe and discipline athletes will look to be quicker, larger, and stronger at #Paris2024
Meet the athletics squad who shall be representing Canada on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games.
https://t.co/aA5ME4xT7E— Workforce Canada (@TeamCanada) July 2, 2024
Paris 2024 would be the first Olympic Video games since Rio 2016 the place Canada will ship three Olympic relay groups: males’s 4x100m, girls’s 4x100m and ladies’s 4x400m. (Solely the lads’s 4x100m relay and ladies’s 4x400m compete at Tokyo 2020). Fifteen of the 48 athletes named to the crew punched their ticket by profitable on the 2024 Bell Canadian Olympic Observe and Area Trials.
Right here’s a listing of the observe and discipline athletes who shall be representing Canada in Paris:
Observe
Mariam Abdul-Rashid (Oshawa, Ont.) – girls’s 100m hurdles
Eliezer Adjibi (Ottawa, Ont.) – males’s 4x100m relay
Mohammed Ahmed (St. Catharines, Ont.) – males’s 10,000m, males’s 5,000m
Marco Arop (Edmonton, Alta.) – males’s 800m
Duan Asemota (Ajax, Ont.) – males’s 4x100m relay
Jerome Blake (Kelowna, B.C.) – males’s 4x100m relay
Aaron Brown (Toronto, Ont.) – males’s 100m, males’s 200m and males’s 4x100m relay
Kyra Constantine (Toronto, Ont.) – girls’s 4x400m relay
Andre De Grasse (Markham, Ont.) – males’s 100m, males’s 200m, males’s 4x100m relay
Jean-Simon Desgagnés (Quebec, Que.) – males’s 3,000m steeplechase
Crystal Emmanuel-Ahye (Toronto, Ont.) – girls’s 4x100m relay
Thomas Fafard (Repentigny, Que.) – males’s 5,000m
Ben Flanagan (Kitchener, Ont.) – males’s 5,000m
Lauren Gale (Ottawa, Ont.) – girls’s 400m, girls’s 4x400m relay
Michelle Harrison (Saskatoon, Sask.) – girls’s 100m hurdles
Marie-Éloïse Leclair (Montreal, Que.) – girls’s 4x100m relay
Audrey Leduc (Gatineau, Que.) – girls’s 100m, girls’s 200m, girls’s 4x100m relay
Pierce LePage (Whitby, Ont.) – males’s decathlon
Kieran Lumb (Vancouver, B.C.) – males’s 1,500m
Jacqueline Madogo (Ottawa, Ont.) – girls’s 200m, girls’s 4x100m relay
Ceili McCabe (Vancouver, B.C) – girls’s 3,000m steeplechase
Sade McCreath (Ajax, Ont.) – girls’s 4x100m relay
Christopher Morales Williams (Vaughan, Ont.) – males’s 400m
Malachi Murray (Edmonton, Alta.) – males’s 4x100m relay
Jasneet Nijjar (Surrey, B.C.) – girls’s 4x400m relay
Charles Philibert-Thiboutot (Québec, Que.) – males’s 1,500m
Simone Plourde (Montreal, Que.) – girls’s 1,500m
Madeline Worth (Toronto, Ont.) – girls’s 4x400m relay
Brendon Rodney (Etobicoke, Ont.) – males’s 100m, males’s 200m, males’s 4x100m relay
Zoe Sherar (Toronto, Ont.) – girls’s 400m, girls’s 4x400m relay
Jazz Shukla (Toronto, Ont.) – girls’s 800m
Lucia Stafford (Toronto, Ont.) – girls’s 1,500m
Aiyanna Stiverne (Laval, Que.) – girls’s 4x400m relay
Savannah Sutherland (Borden, Sask.) – girls’s 400m hurdles, girls’s 4x400m relay
Damian Warner (London, Ont.) – males’s decathlon
Regan Yee (South Hazelton, B.C.) – girls’s 3,000m steeplechase, girls’s 5,000m
Area
Rowan Hamilton (Chilliwack, B.C.) – males’s hammer throw
Ethan Katzberg (Nanaimo, B.C.) – males’s hammer throw
Adam Keenan (Victoria, B.C.) – males’s hammer throw
Sarah Mitton (Brooklyn, N.S.) – girls’s shot put
Anicka Newell (Saskatoon, Sask.) – girls’s pole vault
Alysha Newman (Delaware, Ont.) – girls’s pole vault
Camryn Rogers (Richmond, B.C.) – girls’s hammer throw
Highway
Evan Dunfee (Richmond, B.C.) – males’s 20km race stroll, blended race stroll relay
Malindi Elmore (Kelowna, B.C.) – girls’s marathon
Cameron Levins (Black Creek, B.C.) – males’s marathon
Rory Linkletter (Calgary, Alta.) – males’s marathon
Olivia Lundman (Lantzville, B.C.) – blended race stroll relay
You may view the complete Workforce Canada announcement right here.
