On Saturday on the Louis Riel Dome in Ottawa, Lauren Gale set the primary Canadian out of doors file of the 2024 season, within the ladies’s 300 metres.
Gale, who grew up within the Ottawa space and now competes for the Ottawa Lions Observe and Subject Membership, gained the 300m race on the Carleton Ravens U Sports activities Final Likelihood meet in 36.48 seconds. It ranks because the sixth-fastest 300m mark on this planet this 12 months and shaved 0.16 seconds from the earlier file set in 2000, the 12 months Gale was born.
Whereas Gale’s time of 36.48 seconds was set indoors on the Louis Riel Dome, it won’t depend as a Canadian indoor file, because of the outsized size of the Dome’s monitor (400m); as a substitute, will probably be acknowledged as a Canadian out of doors file. Her time was additionally quicker than the present Canadian indoor file of 36.94 set by Kyra Constantine in 2022, however that file will nonetheless stand since indoor information must be run on a 200m monitor
Ladonna Antoine beforehand held the nationwide file over 300 metres outdoor, with a time of 36.64 seconds, set in Brisbane, Australia, throughout a tune-up meet for the Sydney Olympics.
This marks the fourth time the 24-year-old has set a Canadian dash file. She additionally holds information for the 200m indoors and was a part of the Canadian 4x400m relay workforce, which set a nationwide file on the 2022 World Indoor Championships in Serbia.
