Aaron Brown has formally punched his ticket to his fourth Olympic Video games, successful the lads’s 200m remaining in Montreal on Sunday afternoon. That is Brown’s twelfth Canadian nationwide dash title in his profession.
Brown ran a wind-aided 20.09 seconds to win by a big margin forward of his 4x100m relay teammate Brendon Rodney, who was second in 20.34 seconds. Olympic champion Andre De Grasse didn’t enter the lads’s 200m at Trials, given an Athletics Canada coaches’ exemption, that means he will likely be named to the crew at a later date (doubtless July 2).
The 32-year-old first represented Canada 12 years in the past, competing within the London 2012 Olympics as a 20-year-old. Brown would be the solely male athlete on the Canadian observe and area crew in Paris who has appeared at 4 Olympic Video games.
Sunday’s win in Montreal was emotional for Brown, together with his dad and mom, spouse, and two youngsters cheering him on from the grandstands at Claude-Robillard. Brown donned his signature burgundy Nike headband with a timeline of great moments of his life pictured on it.
What a second for Aaron Brown’s (@KingsleySC) household.
His dad and mom, spouse and two youngsters had been in Montreal to observe him safe a spot to his fourth Olympics.
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Rodney and De Grasse will doubtless be nominated to the Canadian Olympic crew within the 200m occasion subsequent week, each beforehand having the 200m commonplace of 20.16 seconds.
Audrey Leduc pulls off dash double in Montreal
It was one other weekend to recollect for Canadian sprinter Audrey Leduc of Gatineau, Que., as she pulled off the ladies’s dash double in Montreal on Sunday, successful the ladies’s 200m in a wind-aided 22.71 seconds (+2.7 m/s). Leduc will signify Group Canada in Paris in three occasions: the ladies’s 100m, 200m, and 4x100m relay.
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There was a photograph end for second and third within the girls’s 200m between newly topped Canadian 400m champ Toronto’s Zoe Sherar and Ottawa’s Jacqueline Madogo. After overview, Sherar was given second place by three-thousandths of a second in 22.944.
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