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Maguire breaks records at Ontario championships

It was a record breaking weekend for Liz Maguire as she ran to victory at the Ontario Masters Championships in Toronto. The 51 year old's two golds highlighted a 25 medal haul from the Lions. Running her first 1500 metre race of the season Saturday mornin ...

OTTAWA, ON -- 07 July 2018: Farah Jacques in the 100m hurdle heats at the 2018 Athletics Canada National Track and Field Championships held at the Terry Fox Athletics Facility in Ottawa, Canada. (Photo by Sean Burges / Mundo Sport Images).

Jacques sets new personal standard in France

Approaching the end of its second week, the Ottawa Lions European Tour featured stops in Karlstad, Sweden and Castres, France today highlighted by a lifetime best performance by Farah Jacques in the 100m hurdles. Jacques, who transitioned to the 100 metre ...

Fast and Ovington double up at Quebec Championships

The five hour plus bus ride back from Laval University's PEPS Stadium was made all the more enjoyable by the clang of medals around athletes necks. In total, 29 athletes brought home 20 medals from the Quebec U14/U16/U18 Championship led by Joe Fast and B ...

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Robertson upgraded to Gold

In a press release issued Monday, USports, the governing body for university athletics in Canada, announced that Lions record holder Michael Robertson and his Canadian 4x400 metre relay teammates had been upgraded to gold from silver. The move follows a d ...

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Samuel sets Canadian record

Six more inches and it could have been a different ending Sunday morning as the 14th IAAF U20 World Championships concluded in Tampere, Finland with the customary running of the 4x400 metre relay. While Sharelle Samuel and her teammates posted a Canadian ...

(Ottawa, Canada---08 July 2017) Sharelle Samuel competing in the U20 400m final at the 2017 Canadian Track and Field Championships. (Photo by Sean W Burges / Mundo Sport Images).

Samuel off to 4x400m final

It was a good morning for Sharelle Samuel and her Team Canada 4x400 metre relay teammates on the penultimate day of competition at the 14th IAAF World U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland as the quartet handily advanced to tomorrow's final. Running third ...

Trapeau and Samuel fall short of final

With a trip to a global final on the line today for Maeliss Trapeau and Sharelle Samuel, both athletes fell short of advancing despite registering near personal best performances. Maeliss Trapeau, first on the track in the 800m semi-final, crossed the lin ...