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Biocchi wins gold and bronze at Canada Summer Games

It was a successful week at the Canada Summer Games for 400m sprinter Devin Biocchi. The soon to be senior at the University of Ottawa started off by picking up bronze in the individual 400m on Thursday with a last second surge at the line.  The late surg ...

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Youth Girls set 4x400m record

The 2013 Canadian Youth Championships ended with a bang on Sunday as the quartet of Annie Dai, Reilly Jones, Alexia Lamothe and Erinn Stenman-Fahey set a new Canadian Youth Championship Club record in the 4x400m relay with a time of 3:49.85. The previous ...

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Stenman-Fahey runs away with silver

It was another day and another medal for the Ottawa Lions at the Canadian Youth Championships in Langley, BC. Running against girls a year older then her, Erinn Stenman-Fahey picked up a silver medal in the U18 girls 400m, crossing the line in a new perso ...

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Youth Girls win 4x100m Silver

After the first day of the 2013 Canadian Youth Championships, the Ottawa Lions are already on the medal table with a silver in the youth girls 4x100m relay team. The team of Anni Dai, Alexia Lamothe, Ali Chiarelli and Reilly Jones crossed the line in a ti ...

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Makinde runs 20.62 in Worlds Warmup

Sprinter Oluwasegun Makinde made the best of a pre-world championship warm up meet in Germany today, running to a second place finish and a new personal best time of 20.62. Makinde was  among a small group of team Canada members competing in Weinheim. In ...

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Lions to represent Canada at World Championships

Athletics Canada has announced its 46 member team to compete at the upcoming IAAF World Championships in Athletics, and the Ottawa Lions are proud to congratulate six athletes who are currently or recently been associated with the club who have been named ...

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Golden Dream Comes True For Wheelchair Racer Thom

Curtis Thom says thinking of himself as a world champion is still a little unreal. “I just got home,” the Ottawa Lions track and field club member said Monday. “It’s kind of still, in my mind, ‘Holy cow, I actually brought a medal home. We got a gold meda ...

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Lions Win 11th Provincial Senior Title

The Ottawa Lions captured their third consecutive  Senior Division Club Championships on the weekend by amassing 200 points in a broad range of events.  The University of Toronto Track Club was second with 163 and London-Western third at 125.  Project Ath ...

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Lions win 10 medals at Ontario Masters Championships

At the recent Ontario Masters (35+) Championships in Toronto, a small group of club athletes brought home a total of ten medals, including six golds and one new provincial record. Competing in the M65 category, Stan Seitz took first in both the pole vault ...

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Cassidy 4th in IPC 10,000m

In the final event of day one at the 2013 IPC World Championships in athletics, wheelchair racer Josh Cassidy finished fourth in the T54 10,000m. In a very tightly contested final, Cassidy missed out on a podium finish by just 0.15 seconds, crossing the l ...