The 17th edition of the IAAF World U20 Championships got off to a fantastic start for the Lions on Tuesday with both Maeliss Trapeau and Sharelle Samuel advancing out of their respective heats and on to the semi-finals. The journey to Tampere, Finland was ...
Lions own relays; Pick up 8 medals on final day
As the dust began to settle on another edition of the Canadian Track and Field Championships, the Ottawa Lions went out with a bang, picking up a total of eight medals on the final day of competition. The medal haul was driven primarily by the relay crews ...
Lions pick up four more medals on Saturday evening
Well it was certainly a case of good things coming in bunches Saturday evening as Lions athletes picked up four medals in a mere 45 minutes to close out the evening's track session. Training partners Jonathan Rioux and Andre Alie-Lamarch went 2-3 in the U ...
Poirier and Frank leap to medals at Nationals
The Canadian championships had a definite touch of youth Saturday morning with a total of seven U20 finals being contested in the field. Among the many medalists were pole vaulter Caroline Poirier and high jumper Philip Frank who captured the eighth and n ...
Al Haddad advances to 400m hurdle final
It was a morning of elation and heartbreak for two hurdlers on day five of the Canadian Track and Field Championships at Terry Fox Athletic Facility. For Saj Alhaddad that meant comfortably advancing to tomorrow's 400 metre hurdle final, while Mary Ollier ...
Nedow wins sixth straight Canadian title
While much of the focus tonight at the Terry Fox Athletic Facility was on the sprint straightaway, it was the Lion field eventers who produced the most notable performances, led by Tim Nedow's sixth straight Canadian title in the shot put. Nedow simply do ...
Bronze for Ovington in discus
While the temperatures dropped over night, the performances continue to heat up as Brandon Ovington picks up the fifth medal for the Ottawa Lions at the Canadian Track and Field Championships. Despite only being 17, Ovington unleashed a massive three metr ...
Cassidy second in 1500m wheelchair
If racing nearly 1900 kilometres apart on back to back days is a difficult task, Paralympian Joshua Cassidy showed no ill effect as he raced to a silver medal in the 1500m para wheelchair event at the 2018 Canadian Championship on Thursday. Cassidy, who r ...
11 Lions advance out of morning qualifying
It was a busy morning on the track to start day three of the Canadian Track and Field Championships with a plethora of qualifying rounds taking place for events from 100m to 1500m. In total, 11 Lions athletes advanced on to the semi-finals for their event ...
Lions earn full set of medals on day two of Canadian Championships
As the heat continued to beat down on the track at Terry Fox Wednesday, the first medals of the 2018 Canadian Championships were handed out with Lions athletes picking up a full set of gold, silver and bronze. Runners Keegan Gaunt and Shanna Boutillier we ...