Edmonton’s Marco Arop has began 2024 off with a bang, setting a brand new Canadian indoor 800m document of 1:45.51 within the 800m on the Razorback Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark. on Saturday. Arop, the world 800m champion, received the race by one and a half seconds—eclipsing his personal document (and private finest) of 1:45.90. 25-year-old Arop was adopted by Florida’s Sam Austin in 1:46.80, and Rhode Island’s Darius Kipyego in 1:46.86.
The 2023 season was a standout yr for Arop, upgrading his 2022 world championship bronze within the males’s 800m to gold on the 2023 World Athletics Championships. A month later, on the Diamond League closing in Eugene, Ore., Arop broke the Canadian 800m document of 1:43.20, held by his former collegiate teammate and coaching accomplice Brandon McBride. Arop took second place in that closing in 1:42:85, overwhelmed on the line by rising star Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya.
Arop is ready to headline the lads’s 1,000m on the 2024 New Stability Indoor Grand Prix in Boston on Feb. 4, aiming to run a private finest and break the Canadian document of two:16.87.
Evan Dunfee units new Canadian 10,000m race stroll document
Internationally, Canadian Olympic bronze medallist Dunfee opened his season with a brand new private finest and nationwide document of 38:25.42 within the 10,000m race stroll in Canberra, Australia, at Supernova: World Athletics Race Strolling Tour Bronze meet. Dunfee, from Richmond, B.C., advised press post-race that the race was the primary huge take a look at of the yr for him, and referred to as it his “best-executed race ever.”
On the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, Dunfee took fourth within the 20K race stroll occasion, setting a brand new Canadian document time of 1:18:03. He went on to additionally end fourth within the 35K race stroll, having torn his hamstring round 32 km into the race.
Postrace on Saturday, Dunfee mentioned he had adopted his race plan to return in from behind for a adverse break up.”These are the type of techniques I’ll want if I need a shot at a medal in Paris, so actually happy,” Dunfee mentioned on Instagram.
Ben Flanagan dips below Olympic normal in 5,000m
Kitchener, Ont.’s Ben Flanagan ran an almost seven-second private better of 13:04.62, taking fifth within the 5,000m on the John Terrier Traditional in Boston on Friday evening. His time is now the third-fastest Canadian males’s indoor mark in historical past and is below the Paris 2024 Olympic normal of 13:05.
In 2023, Flanagan shattered the lads’s Canadian 5K document on the B.A.A. 5K in Boston, taking second within the race and breaking the earlier Canadian document by ten seconds in 13:26.
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