4 further Canadian athletes named to 2024 Paris Olympic group
On Tuesday, 4 further athletes obtained early nominations to the 2024 Canadian Olympic group in Paris for the marathon, race stroll relay, and 10,000m events. Rory Linkletter of Calgary, Moh Ahmed of St. Catharines, Ont., Evan Dunfee of Richmond, B.C., and Olivia Lundman of Lantzville, B.C., are the 4 athletes who is perhaps changing into a member of beforehand nominated athletes Malindi Elmore and Cam Levins on the 2024 group.
Athletics Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee have launched six athletes who earned early nomination to the Canadian Olympic Group for Paris 2024 throughout the 10,000 metres, race stroll, and marathon events 🇨🇦https://t.co/zqCqMREU24
— Athletics Canada (@AthleticsCanada) Might 14, 2024
The trio of Levins, Elmore, and Linkletter will make up the Canadian marathon group in Paris, with the qualification window closed as of Might 5. That’s Group Canada’s smallest group despatched to an Olympic Video video games since London 2012, nonetheless the necessities for these Paris Video video games have been nearly 10 minutes before in 2012. Linkletter ran a non-public best 2:08:01 on the 2024 Seville Marathon in February to hit the Olympic customary of two:08:10 by 9 seconds. The 27-year-old, who has represented Canada throughout the marathon at two world championships (2022 and 2023), will compete at his first Olympics this August.
“I’ve an opportunity to represent my family, myself, my nation, on a stage that’s larger than any in all sports activities actions, just because it’s so worldwide, it’s so watched world broad,” said Linkletter to the Canadian Olympic Committee. “Merely to be on this stage in an event similar to the marathon and be able to compete, it means I did one factor specific to get proper right here.”
On the observe, Ahmed is the first observe and self-discipline athlete to acquire early alternative. This is perhaps Ahmed’s fourth Olympic Video video games, beforehand competing for Canada at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. Ahmed is the solely Canadian to interrupt the 27-minute mark throughout the 10,000m and made historic previous at Tokyo 2020 when he obtained silver throughout the 5,000m, incomes Canada’s first medal in a long-distance observe event. The 33-year-old gained qualification by hitting the same old on the Sound Working TheTEN event in March, recording the second-fastest 10,000m time of his occupation– 26:53.01. Ahmed holds the Olympic customary for the 5,000m nonetheless should await the Canadian Olympic Trials in Montreal this June to solidify his spot.
Ahmed said this in a press launch: “It’s an superior honour and privilege to get the nomination to have the power to placed on the maple leaf. A fourth Olympic Video video games means I’m expert and I hope to position it to good use in Paris. My function is the exact same as a result of it has been for lots of of my earlier major championships–to face on prime of the podium or as close to it as potential.”
Turning into a member of Ahmed and Linkletter are race walkers Dunfee and Lundman who licensed to compete throughout the inaugural Olympic marathon race stroll blended relay as soon as they accomplished twenty first on the World Athletics Race Strolling Group Championships in April. In Tokyo 2020, Dunfee obtained bronze throughout the 50km race stroll for Canada’s first-ever Olympic medal throughout the event. The 50km race stroll is not on the Olympic programme, modified with the model new marathon race stroll blended relay.
The remainder of the Canadian group for observe and self-discipline gained’t be revealed until the highest of June after the 2024 Bell Canadian Observe and Topic Trials.
