Canadian Track

Another Junior Championship Over

2009-07-19T23:07:00.002-03:00

Well I would say the best thing about the weekend is that the forecasted weather held off, and no rain was seen during competition hours. That being said, all the rain that fell in the evenings could easily be found in the infield as the draining on the field as atrocious.

For those who were unaware, despite being hosted in Charlottetown, the group running the meet was actually the individuals running the World Junior Championships next year in Moncton, NB. I can't speak to the treatment of athletes with respect to the athlete control centre, but the group tried its best to run on time to the minute. Unfortunately, this was sometimes done at its own peril with the meet occasionally running late as they wouldn't move anything a second earlier.

Suzanne Leroux was again one of the announcers at nationals, but this time she was also joined by a gentleman, but I am unaware of who he was. While I can appreciate the desire to put new voices to the national meets, I would certainly not recommend this individual to any meet in the future as he rambled on and on at times, could not get names straight and sounded like he had never been to a track meet at times. Clearly, well below the level of other national championship commenters.

On the track and in the field there were certainly many outstanding performances. Certainly Julie Labonte's new Canadian Junior Record in the shot put has to rank right up there. My favourite race had to be the women's 1500m. Kendra Schaaf and Jessica Parry were clearly on a mission, taking the pace out hard. I've already mentioned the blistering pace, but the tactics used were the must enticing as a spectator. Kendra led for 900m with Jessica sitting right on her behind. I few noted they think Jessica made her move a little early which is likely true given her decreased pace on the home stretch as Kendra moved past Jess. The result for Kendra was a new meet record with a 4:20 clock. She later followed up this performance with a 9:14 3k to set another championship record.

Other meet records this weekend included Brent Roubos of Orillia braking the discus standard in the fifth round of the men's competition. Shortly after Brent's effort, Caroline Ehrhardt from Sudbury raised the standard in the women's triple jump. This comes after Caroline's Canadian High School Record jump for this season's OFSAA championship. As well, Gregory MacNeil continued to add to his excellent season with a 13.8 clocking to lower the 110 hurdle meet record. I believe that is all of the championship record's.

One of the most dominating performance in the field certainly was put forth by Barrie's Alanna Kovacs who defended her javelin title from 2008 and also picked up a discus crown and a bronze in the shot put. Maybe most impressive of all was that each result was personal best from the Depaul University student.

Finally, the men from the west showed they were ready to run, as Akeem Haynes of Alberta. took home the junior 100m title in 10.49 (+0.3). Haynes finished second to BC's Rohan Stewart in the 200m with Rohan stoping the clock in a wind aided 20.92 seconds. It was Rohan's second title of the weekend as he pulled off the "Michael Johnson" double with a 47.96 clocking on Saturday.

So that's all from Charlottetown. Next up on the national schedule is Sherbrooke in 2 weeks time. Hope to see all the familiar faces.

2k Steeple Results

2009-07-19T11:58:00.001-03:00

From Bluenoose Athletics in Nova Scotia, Mattias Wolter took home the gold medal in 9:18.24. Daryl Smith of the Windsor Legion was 2nd in 9:21.64 and Jacob Smith of Brockville Legion rounded out the medallists with a time of 9:25.52.

New meet record in TJ

2009-07-19T11:51:00.001-03:00

Caroline Ehrhardt of Sudbury has broken the Canadian Junior Championships meet record in the triple jump with a third round effort of 12.84m.

New meet record in the discus

2009-07-19T11:15:00.000-03:00

Brent Roubos of the University of Toronto Track Club just broke the meet record in the discus with a fifth round effort of 54.49m

Day 3 starts early

2009-07-19T09:39:00.003-03:00

With an 8:15am start time to day two of the decathlon, the stadium was expectedly bare this morning, with more officials lining the hurdles than spectators. Leading the hurdles was the London Legion's AJ Beasley who stopped the clock in 15.05 (+2.9) out of heat two. Behind Beasley was Vincent Schnabl from BC, who ran 15.66. Rounding out the top three was Day 1 leader Taylor Corney with a 16.08 second clocking.

After six events Corney continued to lead with 4212 pts, seemingly on pace to break his personal best 6391. Beasley remained in second with 4139 pts.

Corney will hold on to his lead after the discus with a 42.30m toss on his first attempt. That bring his total to 4924 as he distances himself from the field. Ross Enns slips past Beasley in to second at 4559, and AJ drops to third in 4508.

New Canadian Junior Record

2009-07-18T17:37:00.003-03:00

On her first attempt in the women's shot put, Quebec's Julie Labonte set a new Canadian standard with a throw of 16.39m. She followed this up with a second round toss of 16.26m.

The competition is near the end of the second round.

Men's 100m

2009-07-18T14:01:00.000-03:00

Akeen Haynes of Alberta got out quick and didn't let up, as he captured his Canadian Junior crown and a time of 10.49 seconds. The top ranked runner coming in, Segun Makinde of Ottawa finished second in 10.70 seconds.

Men's 1500m

2009-07-18T12:48:00.001-03:00

Jeremy Rae uses last lap kick to win Canadian Junior Championship. JP Mallette finishes 3rd. More details to come.

What a 1500!!!!

2009-07-18T12:19:00.004-03:00

In the women's 1500m final Kendra Schaff outkicked London's Jessica Parry in the final 50m to win in a championship record 4:20 and change. The two runners were the class of the field, taking a 100m lead on the rest of the group in the first lap, going through 400m in 66. At 900m in about 3:03, Parry pushed ahead of Schaff with 350m to go. With a 5m lead heading into the final 200, Schaff slowly bided her time before find that extra gear on the home stretch.

The battle for third was fought out between two members of the Newmarket Huskie Striders. I'm unaware of the final medallist at this time.

Day 1 is complete

2009-07-17T20:54:00.002-03:00

Sorry for the lack of updates in the afternoon. I got really busy crunching photos, which will be available on msievents.com, but I'll try and put together a small re-cap this evening before bed.

Men's 100m heats

2009-07-17T17:04:00.005-03:00

Makinde makes up for a slow start in the first men's heat, powering down the track to a time of 10.69. Ike Omoruna, who held the lead until about the 60m mark finished second in 10.88.

In the second heat Akeem Haynes of Calgary turned it on till 50m when he gained the lead, put it on auto-pilot to 80m and then shut it down crossing in 10.62. Leonae Nichol of Mississauga was second in 10.80.

The third heat was won by Andrew Nathan who's hard running through the line helped beat out Kyu-Won Chu how had put on the breaks around 90m. Nathan won in 10.74.

Rounding out the heats was Wayndale Bennett who produced the fastest time of the round as he looked really smooth in running 10.60 seconds.

Women's javelin

Laura Macauley, the top seeed, and Alanna Kovacs, the defending champion, are the top two qualifiers heading into the women's jav final.

Men's 110m Hurdle heats

2009-07-17T15:56:00.004-03:00

World Youth Bronze medallist Gregory Macneil of London easily won the opening heat in 14.13, almost stopping before reach the line.

Simon Levielle wins his heat in 13.96 looking very quick over the hurdles and very relaxed. It will be an interesting matchup between these two men for the final.

UPDATE: Qualifiers for the A final tomorrow

Simon Leveille

Gregory Macneil

Ingrav Moseley

Daniel Chan

Huber Chevrette-Belisle

Gabriel El Hanbli

Derek Drouin

Adrew Arndt

The cut off to make the final was 14.82.

Men's hundreds about to start. Women saw a few sub 12 second runs aided by strong tailwinds.

In all, three girls broke 12: Crystal Emmanuel, Shai Davis and Loudia Laarman.

100m hurdles fourth heat

2009-07-17T15:40:00.002-03:00

Shona Dunkley from Project Athletics in Toronto takes the fourth and final heat rather handily in a time of 14.33.

That's it for the women's hurdles, the standards are be raised and weights increased as the crew slowly gets set for the men's prelims.

100m hurdles third heat

2009-07-17T15:30:00.000-03:00

Despite a fall by Tomi Morris to the outside of her, Olivia Charnuski cruised to victor in heat three in a time of 14.41 seconds.

100m hurdles second heat

2009-07-17T15:20:00.001-03:00

Both Luarence Beaudet and Mahlena Nosbush take a tumble in the second heat. Ariane Beaumont-Courteau of Quebec won the heat in a time of 14.41.

Early Jav results

2009-07-17T15:13:00.001-03:00

In women's qualifying Alanna Kovacs of South Simcoe Dufferin and Brooke Rowland have each thrown past the 39m standard to automatically advance to the final.

hurdles

2009-07-17T15:09:00.001-03:00

Maddex wins first heat unofficially in 13.97s with a strong tailwind

Heptathlon after event 1

2009-07-17T15:06:00.002-03:00

Rita Rudell led the way with a 14.60 second clocking scoring 895 points. Second was Rachel McIntosh in 14.83 followed by Meghan Harris in 14.85.

The top 5 after one event are as follows:

Rudell 895

McIntosh 864

Harris 862

Vicic 760

Storm 749

Updated women's triple jump and hep 100mH

2009-07-17T14:51:00.002-03:00

Chlose Hetherton from Saskatoon goes into the women's triple jump final ranked first with a leap of 12.34m (+3.6). Also exceeding the 12m barrier was Caroline Ehrhardt with a jump of 12.28m. In total 11 of the 12 qualifiers exceeded the standard of 11.11m.

In the opening heat the heptathlon hurdles, Rita Rudell of Saugeen finished first scoring over 900pts in the opening event.

Final shot put qualifying for women has Julie Labonte dominating the field with a throw of 15.75m, 2m ahead of second place Taryn Suttie. Chelsea Whalen caps the top threee at 12.78m. The cut off for the final was 11.21m for Jessica Chamberland from New Brunswick.

Women's shot put

2009-07-17T14:34:00.002-03:00

Julie Labonte, Chelsea Whelan and Alanna Kovacs among top qualifiers for women's shot put final.

Angus Taylor wins again

2009-07-17T13:51:00.003-03:00

Richmond, BC's Angus Taylor won his second consecutive junior hammer throw title today with a best effort of 64.32m in the fourth round. In fact, all four of his measured throw would have been good enough for the title. York University's Suyi Georgewill placed second with a 56.88m toss in the sixth round. Rounding out the top three was Ryan Tarnava from the hammer hotbed of Lethbridge, Alberta.

Posting early qualifying marks in the women's triple jump were Caroline Ebhardt, Chloe Hetherton and Mila Similuk. The automatic standard was 11.15m.

Stewart leads long jump qualifiers

2009-07-17T12:33:00.000-03:00

Taylor Stewart of the London Legion led this morning's qualifying round with a second round effort of 7.33m (+2.5). Next in the list of qualifiers was OFSAA champion Jharyl Bowry from Take Flight Athletics in Toronto with a 7.07m effort. The cut-off to make the final was 6.29m from Jared Chapman of the South Simcoe Dufferin TFC. As evidence to the windy day in Charlottetown, 10 of the 12 qualifiers had wind aided marks. The highest recorded wind was 4.8m/s.

Men's hammer is in the second round. The only mark I've heard so far has been a 54m opener for Suyi Georgewill of York University Track Club.

Women's Discus qualifying complete

2009-07-17T11:33:00.000-03:00

After faulting her first two attempts, like her performance at national seniors, Barrie's Alanna Kovacs rebounded with a 40.78m attempt. The mark was the second best performance of the qualifying round which was led by Julie Labonte who is more known for her prowess in the shot put circle. Other notable qualifiers included Laura Macauley and Lauren Stewart from BC, Katie Klodnicki from Hamilton and Meredith Allan from London. The cut off mark to make the final was 34.37m by Kim Elliot from Saskatoon.

Currently in the field is men's long jump qualifying and men's hammer which is warming up for the final. Quick word is that Taylor Stewart, has automatically qualified for the final.

Canadian Junior Track and Field Championships start

2009-07-17T10:51:00.000-03:00

The weather has been nice so far to the athletes as the predicted rain has held off despite clouds moving in. Already in the books is the women's long jump qualifying where the twelve participants for Saturday's final have been selected. Leading the qualifying round was World Youth Championships participant Caroline Ebhardt who jumped 5.79m (+1.8) on her second attempt. Aleshia Cobb from BC was second with a wind aided 5.63m while top ranked Christabel Nettey lept to 5.60m on her first attempt to go into the final ranked 4th.

In the first qualifying group for the women's discus, Quebec's Julie Labonte was among three athletes who reached the automatic standard of 38.08m. So far in flight two, Laura MacCauley of BC and Alanna Kovacs from Barrie are through to the final with the automatic standard. Kovacs recently finished third at the Canadian Senior Championships held in Toronto.