Canada’s Moh Ahmed returned from harm on Saturday night time on the Sound Operating TheTEN meet in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. Ahmed ran 26:53.01 to attain the Olympic commonplace for the ten,000m, clocking the second-fastest time of his profession over the gap.
Ahmed was one among eight runners to attain the Olympic 10,000m commonplace of 27 minutes and completed just one second behind his former Bowerman Observe Membership teammate, Grant Fisher, who gained the race in 26:52.04.
The 33-year-old from St. Catharines, Ont., now holds each the Olympic 5K and 10K requirements heading into the Paris Olympics. He’s the one Canadian runner to ever break the 27-minute mark for 10,000m—a feat he’s completed 3 times. He holds the Canadian report of 26:34.14, which was set at theTEN occasion in 2022.
Heading into the race, there was uncertainty round Ahmed’s health as he pulled out of the 2024 Houston Half Marathon in January as a result of harm.
Ahmed was not the one Canadian runner within the males’s skilled area. Ben Flanagan of Kitchener, Ont., additionally competed and ran to a private better of 27:20.93 for fifteenth place, lacking the Olympic commonplace by 20 seconds. After theTEN observe meet, there are 16 males who’ve hit the Olympic commonplace out of the entry quota of 27, which means there are 11 spots open for the subsequent quickest qualifiers on World Athletics factors. For Flanagan to maneuver into a kind of 11 subsequent quickest qualifying spots, he would want to race one other observe 10,000m or highway 10K.
There have been additionally a couple of Canadian distance runners within the preliminary races. Toronto’s Andrew Alexander completed thirteenth within the Highway to Tracktown 10,000m, simply 4 seconds shy of his private finest. Jeremy Coughler of London, Ont., positioned third within the sub-elite race in a brand new private better of 28:28.30, whereas Quebec’s Thomas Fafard completed fifth in 28:39.29.
To view the complete outcomes from the Sound Operating theTEN, examine right here.
