After a four-year drought, Scott Filip and Quintunya Chapman won a historic double for the USA at the 5th Pan American Combined Events Cup, part of the IAAF World Challenge, held at Ottawa’s Terry Fox stadium. Second after Day 1, Champman moved to the lea ...
lead Pan American Combined Events Cup after Day 1
Canada’s Pierce Lepage and USA’s Chelsea Carrier are the overnight leaders after the opening day of the 4th Pan American Combined Events Cup, being held this weekend at the Terry Fox Athletics Facility at Mooney’s Bay. The fastest athletes in the field, L ...
4th Pan American Combined Events Cup gets underway in Ottawa
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 ...