Audrey Leduc’s dream season continued on Friday night on the 2024 Edwin Moses Traditional in Atlanta. Leduc set a brand new Canadian file of twenty-two.36 seconds (+1.1 m/s) within the ladies’s 200m, decreasing the earlier nationwide file by greater than a tenth of a second. Her time was additionally effectively beneath the Paris 2024 Olympic commonplace of twenty-two.57, making the ladies’s 200m the second occasion through which she has achieved the usual.
𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐲 𝐋𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜 𝐫𝐞́𝐞́𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭 𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐥’𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐢𝐫𝐞!
Après son file au 100m, elle vient de courir le 200m le plus rapide de l’histoire du Canada, ce soir, à Atlanta.
22,36 secondes.
14 centièmes de plus rapide que l’ancienne marque.
Wow. #GoLaval pic.twitter.com/nUYong3Cvu
— Rouge et Or (@rougeetor) Might 31, 2024
Previous to this efficiency, Leduc’s quickest 200m time with a authorized wind studying was 23.62 seconds in 2023. Her solely different 200m race this season was a 22.77-second wind-aided efficiency (+3.0 m/s) in Baton Rouge in April.
Leduc got here out of the bend in third place and chased down world relay champion Tamari Davis of the U.S. within the remaining 20 metres to take the win on the line. Davis was second, with a season’s greatest of twenty-two.39 seconds, and one other American sprinter, Kennedy Flannel, was third with a time of 23.13 seconds.
That is Leduc’s second Canadian file this season. In April, she broke the longstanding nationwide 100m file beforehand held by Angela Bailey with a time of 10.96 seconds, changing into solely the second Canadian girl to run beneath 11 seconds. Now, a month later, she lowered Crystal Emmanuel’s earlier 200m file of twenty-two.50 seconds by 0.14 seconds.
Earlier this 12 months, Leduc instructed Canadian Operating earlier than the 2024 Canadian U Sports activities Championships that her aim was to qualify for the Canadian Olympic crew in Paris for the 100m and 4x100m relay. Leduc has now met the Olympic commonplace within the 100m and 200m occasions, and final month she helped the ladies’s 4x100m relay crew qualify for his or her first Olympics since Rio 2016 at World Relays within the Bahamas.
She is the one feminine Canadian sprinter to have met the usual in each the 100m and 200m occasions. Leduc can solidify her Olympic spots on Workforce Canada on the 2024 Bell Canadian Olympic Trials in Montreal later this month.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone returns
On the similar meet, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone made her season debut within the ladies’s 400mH, recording a world-leading time of 52.76; she gained the race by three seconds. Canada’s Sage Walker (previously Sage Watson) was fifth, in her first 400m hurdles race in two years. Her ending time of 56.92 seconds places her third in Canada this 12 months. Walker is aiming to make her third Olympic crew.
