The 4th Pan American Combined Events Cup gets underway Friday at the Terry Fox Athletics Facility at Mooney’s Bay. The event, hosted by the Ottawa Lions in the past four years, is an annual fixture on the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge Series and br ...
Lions pick up 9 medals at Ontario Championships
The Ottawa Lions picked up nine medals this weekend at the Ontario Senior Championships, headlined by Oluwasegun Makinde's sweep of the men's sprint events. Makinde kicked things off on Saturday in the 100m prelims when he ran his way to a new lifetime be ...
Jacques sets new club standard.
Farah Jacques re-wrote the club record book for the second time this season on Saturday at the Sunshine Invitational in Miami. Jacques bested Ashley Purnell's 14 year old standard of 11.55 seconds as she finished third in a lifetime best 11.49 seconds. Fa ...
Christie-Galloway Breaks OFSAA Record
In may have only been the third track event of the day at the OFSAA Track and Field Championships, but that didn't stop Kiera Christie-Galloway from running the fastest 100m hurdles race in OFSAA history. The grade 11 student at St.Matthews High School in ...
Bishop Seventh in Rome Diamond League
After opening her Olympic season with smaller meets in and around her training base of Windsor, Melissa Bishop took a two lap tour of Rome's Olympic Stadium on Thursday as she continues her Road to Rio. The reigning world silver medalist finished seventh ...
Bishop and Gale Sizzle on Track
The track was on fire this weekend with some superb performances by Lions athletes, including a new club record by Melissa Bishop in the 1500m and sprint sweep by Lauren Gale at the Colorado 4A State Championships. Bishop opened her outdoor season much th ...
Brown Breaks Canadian Records
While her peers were trying to qualify for the Ottawa high school championships last week, Larissa Brown was looking to take another step towards this summer’s Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Competing at the IPC Desert Challenge in Tempe, Arizona ove ...
Successful weekend south of the border
A small contingent of athletes culminated their US spring tour on Friday night in Raleigh, North Carolina. Leading the way was Devyani Biswal finished second in the 100m hurdles in a time of 13.85 seconds - missing out on gold by 0.01 seconds.Biswal also ...
Jacques Record Highlights Weekend Results
The first big weekend of the summer track season went off with a bang for Ottawa Lions' athletes as a sprinter Farah Jacques re-wrote the record book with a stunning performance at the Florida Relays in Gainesville. Racing over 200m, Jacques produced a ne ...
NEDOW LOOKING TO BE A BIG SHOT IN PORTLAND
Canadian athletes had an outstanding time at the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015, taking eight medals across a variety of events, and while Tim Nedow finished a modest 20th in the men’s shot put qualifiers, he was infected by the ebullient spirt tha ...