With friends and family nearby, shot putter Tim Nedow likes to put on a show and he did exactly that Friday night at the North American Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) Championships being held at the University of Toronto's Varsity Stadium. The ma ...
Burrows third at World Games
In the small town of Sant Cugat, 30 minutes north of Barcelona, the athletics portion of the 2018 Cerebral Palsy World Games got underway yesterday featuring the Lions' own Rachael Burrows. The multiple time Canadian medalist got right to work, finishing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lions add four more medals on final day of championship
The Athletics Ontario Championships wrapped up Sunday afternoon at the University of Windsor's Alumni Stadium with four more medals for the Lions - all silver. Two familiar faces led the haul on day two as Joe Fast and Leewinchell Jean each picked up thei ...
Lions win 5 medals on first day of Ontario Championship
While the rain came down on day one of the Ontario U14/U16/U18 Championships today in Windsor, it didn't drown the competitive spirits of the Lion athletes who picked up five medals on the day including a gold. Things got off to a quick start with Joshua ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...