Canada is sending a stacked team of 30 athletes to next month’s North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) Track and Field Championships, set Aug. 15-17 in Freeport, The Bahamas. Athletics Canada unveiled the roster on Thursday, which includes 17 Olympians and 19 athletes with world championships experience–putting Canada in a strong position to improve on its 14-medal haul from the 2022 edition.
Seventeen women and 13 men were named to the team.
The event, hosted at the Grand Bahama Sports Complex, comes just a month before the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, offering athletes a chance to gain valuable experience ahead of competing on the global stage.
“My goals for the competition will be to first execute each of my races well, with a view to preparing myself well for the World Championships,” Gatineau, Que.’s Audrey Leduc, the national record holder in the 100m and 200m, said in the Athletics Canada press release. “I would love to win one or more medals and also set some personal bests.” For Leduc and 19 others, the competition will mark their NACAC debut.
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At the last NACAC Championships, also held in Freeport, Team Canada’s 40-person squad came away with two gold medals–captured by Nova Scotia’s Sarah Mitton and B.C.’s Django Lovett–plus three silver and nine bronze medals.
Women
Mariam Abdul-Rashid (Oshawa, Ont.) – 100mH
Tatiana Aholou (Laval, Que.) – 100m hurdles
Grace Fetherstonhaugh (New Westminster, B.C.) – 3,000m steeplechase
Lauren Gale (Ottawa) – 400m
Gracelyn Larkin (Rosseau, Ont.) – 5,000m
Audrey Leduc (Gatineau, Que.) – 100m & 200m
Jacqueline Madogo (Ottawa) – 200m
Sade McCreath (Ajax, Ont.) – 100m
Sarah Mitton (Brooklyn, N.S.) – shot put
Aurora Rynda (Toronto) – 800m
Zoe Sherar (Toronto) – 400m
Jazz Shukla (Toronto) – 800m
Lucia Stafford (Toronto) – 1,500m
Chloe Thomas (Dundas, Ont) – 5,000m
Julia Tunks (London, Ont) – discus
Jillian Weir (Kingston, Ont.) – hammer throw
Regan Yee (Vancouver) – 5,000m
Men
Aaron Ahl (Calgary) – 3000m steeplechase
Jerome Blake (Kelowna, B.C.) – 100m
Aaron Brown (Toronto) – 200m
Austin Cole (Sherwood Park, Alta.) – 400m
Andre De Grasse (Markham, Ont.) – 100m
Matti Erickson (Nelson, B.C.) – 800m
Rowan Hamilton (Chilliwack, B.C.) – hammer throw
Abdullahi Hassan( Scarborough, Ont.) – 800m
Foster Malleck (Kitchener, Ont.) – 1,500m
Charles Philibert-Thiboutot (Quebec) – 1,500m
Kevin Robertson (LaSalle, Que.) – 3,000m steeplechase
Brendon Rodney (Etobicoke, Ont.) – 200m
Kenneth West (Brampton, Ont.) – long jump
