Aaron Brown finishes 4th in 200m at Doha Diamond League

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A brace of Canadian athletes opened their Diamond League way and tract seasons at the bid halt in Doha, Qatar, connected Friday. Aaron Brown finished fourth in the men's 200-metre event, portion Alysha Newman was eighth successful the women's rod vault.

Fellow Canadian Alysha Newman takes 8th-place decorativeness successful rod vault

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· Posted: May 16, 2025 1:58 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

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A brace of Canadian athletes opened their Diamond League way and tract seasons at the bid halt in Doha, Qatar, connected Friday.

Aaron Brown finished fourth in the men's 200-metre event, posting a clip of 20.35 seconds.

The contention was won by existent satellite No. 1-ranked athlete in the distance, Letsile Tobogo. The Botswanan eased up earlier the decorativeness enactment and inactive managed a season-best clip of 20.10, up of American Courtney Lindsey (20.11) and Joseph Fahnbulleh of Liberia (20.26).

WATCH | Brown falls abbreviated of top-3 spot:

Tebogo of Botswana takes 200-metre Doha Diamond League Doha event, Canada's Brown 4th

Botswana's Letsile Tebogo ran a 200-metre clip of 20.10 capturing the Diamond League lawsuit successful Doha, Aaron Brown of Canada was fourth.

Tobogo's previous season-best was 20.23, acceptable astatine the Botswana Golden Grand Prix successful mid April.

Friday's contention marked the first 200m lawsuit of the play for Brown, who won a bronze-medal as portion of Canada's 4x100m squad at World Athletics Relays successful Guangzhou, China, last weekend.

That team besides clinched a spot astatine this September's satellite championships successful Tokyo.

WATCH | Brown helps Canada to relay bronze successful Guangzhou:

Canadian 4x100-metre men decorativeness 3rd astatine World Athletics Relay final

Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, Brendon Rodney and Andre De Grasse raced to a bronze medal clip of 38.11 Sunday astatine the World Athletics Relay Championships successful Guangzhou, China.

Newman 8th successful Doha

Alysha Newman, the Olympic women's rod vault bronze medallist astatine Paris 2024, finished eighth successful her archetypal outdoor event of the season.

The Delaware, Ont., autochthonal succeeded connected her 2nd effort astatine 4.48m but was incapable to wide 4.63m successful 3 tries.

Newman, who holds the Canadian grounds of 4.85m, competed successful lone 1 indoor lawsuit successful 2025, finishing 2nd (4.50m) at the World Athletics Indoor Tour conscionable successful Ostrava, Czech Republic, successful February.

WATCH | Alysha Newman opens up about life lessons:

Alysha Newman opens up: Olympic bronze, beingness lessons, and more

CBC Sports' Anastasia Bucsis chats with Alysha Newman astir beingness aft Olympic bronze and what’s next.

For much accusation connected athletics events streaming unrecorded connected CBC Sports this season, click present to spot the afloat broadcast schedule.

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