See SportsOttawa.com’s Facebook page for a full album of photos from this race. By Dan Plouffe Caitlin Gormley and Zoe Wojtyk set the tone for the day in the first race of the Oct. 24 NCSSAA cross-country running championships, as the Glebe Gryphons finished 1-2 in the novice girls’ race to launch their school to…
Ottawa’s Mike Woods couldn’t one-up his bronze medal performance at last year’s World Championships in road racing at this year’s event, as the 33-year-old registered a did not finish in the race held in Yorkshire, U.K. in September
Nathalie Cote teaches history, geography and other social sciences full-time at Colonel By Secondary School. She’s mom to a 7-year-old, a 5-year-old and a 19-month-old who’s still not sleeping at night. She coaches the Cougars high school cross-country running and track-and-field teams.
It’s a busy life for Cote, but the former Team Canada cross-country runner added one more major task to her plate recently when she became the new president of the Ottawa Lions Track-and-Field Club.
Picture a running coach and it’s probably someone in a track suit with a whistle, right? Well, for Louis-Riel high school track & field/cross-country program director Sébastien Lalonde, his tools of the trade are just as likely to include a lawn mower and a pair of work gloves.
Si l’on visualise mentalement un entraîneur de course de fond, celui-ci porte fort probablement un survêtement de course et arbore fièrement un sifflet autour du cou. Eh bien, pour Sébastien Lalonde, directeur du programme d’athlétisme et de cross-country à l’école secondaire Louis-Riel, ses outils de travail incluent plutôt une tondeuse à gazon et une bonne paire de gants de travail!
Ottawa’s Marie-Eve Chainey won 3 medals – high jump and discus silver, and javelin bronze – at the Aug. 17-24 World Transplant Games in the U.K.
Roan Allen’s javelin career has roughly resembled the inverse of one of his tosses; the quick-learner is once again soaring after stagnating midway through his only-few years of experience in the sport.
David Adeleye of the Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club won a gold medal in the 110 metre hurdles at the 2019 National Legion Track and Field Championships.
Luca Nicoletti finished off his school year on a high note, as he became a double-medallist at this year’s Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) Championships for track and field.
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De La Salle’s Zachary Meredith (above) cruised to a sweep of the senior boys’ 1,000-metre and 3,000 m events as over 400 total entrants competed in the Franco-Ontario Track-and-Field Championships on Mar. 7 at Dome Louis-Riel.
The NCSSAA senior boys cross-country championships were dominated by athletes from the Ottawa Lions. One after another they crossed the finish line at Walter Baker Park in a showing of the club’s supremacy in the high school running circuit. The top 5 finishers, at least, were all Lions.
Glebe Collegiate won the senior girls division in a comfortable fashion, but the race was still “sad” for two of the team’s top runners, who ran in NCSSAA competition for the final time.
The factors that presented the makings of a wonky race day all piled into the junior boys city championship.
The Glebe Gryphons defending OFSAA champions did not disappoint at the city cross-country championships by sweeping the podium.
Glebe athletes Ivy Bialowas, Anna S. Heffernan-Wilker and Zoe Gardiner were all smiles after crossing the finish line in places 1, 2 and 3 on Thursday.
Yannick Meredith won the midget boys race of the city high school cross-country championships by a monstrous 26 second margin, which was enough to impress his older brother, and senior boys runner, Zachary Meredith.
Two of the city’s newest high school running juggernauts collided at the city championships on Thursday and it was the latest product of Glebe Collegiate’s unstoppable cross-country program that came out on top.
It’s become expected that the Glebe Gryphons will win the city’s high school cross-country championships, but to sweep all six divisions is something head coach Kirk Dillabaugh hasn’t seen before.
Tim Nedow kept up his exceptional track and field season by setting a new personal best throw of 21.02 m in the shotput at the North American Central American and Caribbean Championships.
At his first nationals as a senior athlete, Thomas Nedow made a bet with his brother, Tim Nedow, to see who could best the other in the men’s shotput final.
Meanwhile, twin sisters Divya and Devyani Biswal proved they still know how to represent their home town at the 2018 Canadian Track and Field Championships.
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The climb to the world stage of track and field continues for four local athletes following the 2018 Canadian Track and Field Championships.
It was a prosperous week for local under-20 athletes at the 2018 Canadian Track and Field Championships, thanks in particular to products of Louis-Riel High School. The Ottawa school saw four of its athletes win national silver at the Terry Fox Athletic Facility from July 3-8, putting it among the most well-represented secondary schools in the country.
At the London 2012 Paralympics, 80,000 fans rose out of their seats to do the wave in sync with the pace Jason Dunkerley set at the front of the men’s 5,000-metre race for athletes with no vision.
Like he did that night en route to the fifth and final Paralympic medal of his career, Dunkerley set a standard for excellence few can match over the course of 20 years as a national team member.
The key to speed is to take it slow.
The 2018 Canadian Track and Field Championships came to a close on Sunday afternoon, but not before two local athletes could add national silver medals to their track records.
A host of Ottawa Lions competed in finals events with six making the podium on the penultimate day of the 2018 Canadian Track and Field Championships Saturday.
Standing on the podium is that much sweeter when you’re also standing on home soil – and that was the case for four local athletes on the fourth day of the 2018 Canadian Track and Field Championships.
With the temperature topping 30ºC, the conditions weren’t ideal for the Run Ottawa Distance Night Thursday at the 2018 Canadian Track-and-Field Championships.
But for Josh Cassidy of the Ottawa Lions Track-and-Field Club, wheeling 1,500 metres in the heat was a breeze compared to the effort it took to get to the start line at the Terry Fox Athletic Facility.
Two of the Ottawa Lions’ top para athletes played it cool in the finals of their events during the ongoing heat wave at the 2018 Canadian Track and Field Championships.
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