Edmonton’s Marco Arop has began 2024 off with a bang, setting a brand new Canadian indoor 800m file 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 file (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 12 months 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 last in Eugene, Ore., Arop broke the Canadian 800m file of 1:43.20, held by his former collegiate teammate and coaching companion Brandon McBride. Arop took second place in that last in 1:42:85, crushed on the line by rising star Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya.
Arop is about to headline the boys’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 file of two:16.87.
Evan Dunfee units new Canadian 10,000m race stroll file
The world over, Canadian Olympic bronze medallist Dunfee opened his season with a brand new private finest and nationwide file 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., instructed press post-race that the race was the primary massive take a look at of the 12 months for him, and known 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 file 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 stated he had adopted his race plan to return in from behind for a detrimental break up.”These are the sort of techniques I’ll want if I desire a shot at a medal in Paris, so actually happy,” Dunfee stated on Instagram.
Ben Flanagan dips beneath Olympic commonplace 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 Basic in Boston on Friday night time. His time is now the third-fastest Canadian males’s indoor mark in historical past and is beneath the Paris 2024 Olympic commonplace of 13:05.
In 2023, Flanagan shattered the boys’s Canadian 5K file on the B.A.A. 5K in Boston, taking second within the race and breaking the earlier Canadian file by ten seconds in 13:26.
