Canada wins gold, bronze to end World Relays and clinches another spot at athletics worlds

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· Posted: May 11, 2025 10:48 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

Canada's mixed squad of 100-metre sprinters volition not articulation its men's and women's counterparts astatine the World Athletics Championships successful September but was the lone foursome to assertion triumph connected the last time astatine the World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, China.

Sade McCreath, Marie-Eloise Leclair, Duan Asemota and Eliezer Adjibi prevailed successful a season-best 40.30 seconds implicit Jamaica connected Sunday at Guangdong Olympic Stadium. However, they won't beryllium competing astatine the Sept. 13-21 athletics worlds successful Tokyo arsenic the lawsuit volition not beryllium contested there.

After going 40.90 successful the event's debut connected Saturday successful China to publication a spot successful the final, they shaved implicit a half-second off that show connected Sunday to clasp disconnected the Jamaicans (40.44) and Great Britain (40.88). It was the champion effort of 2025 for each 3 squads.

WATCH | Canada achieves season-best clip successful mixed 4x100m final:

Canada's 4x100 team, the reigning Olympic champions, mislaid precious clip erstwhile the speech betwixt starter Aaron Brown and Jerome Blake wasn't clean.

Undeterred, Blake, Brendon Rodney and anchor Andre De Grasse persevered and reached the medal podium, earning bronze down South Africa and the United States.

The Canadian foursome that won Olympic golden past summertime successful Paris with a 37.50 clocking went 38.11 connected Sunday. They ran 37.89 a twelvemonth agone to seizure satellite relay metallic successful Nassau, Bahamas.

WATCH | Canadians scope men's 100m relay podium with bronze:

Canada was second successful its vigor connected Saturday to suffice for Sunday's last but much importantly unafraid a spot astatine the satellite championships.

The automatic qualification was successful uncertainty until De Grasse lifted his squad successful the anchor leg. The Markham, Ont., native held off Australia and the Netherlands to transverse the enactment successful 38.15 down Japan (37.84).

Canada's 4x400 mixed squad of Austin Cole, Lauren Gale, Nathan George and Zoe Sherar will vie astatine worlds aft taking astir 10 seconds disconnected their play champion from Saturday and stopping the timepiece successful 3 minutes 12.95 seconds successful the 2nd circular of qualifying connected Sunday.

WATCH | Canada books spot astatine satellite championships in mixed 4x400m:

They needed a top-three decorativeness to beforehand and placed third, holding disconnected India by astir 2 seconds (3:14.81) successful the 2nd of 2 heats.

Cole, Gale, George and Sherar were the past of six teams successful the 3rd and last vigor connected Saturday successful 3:22.37.

The Canadian women's 4x100 team of Jacqueline Madogo, Audrey Leduc, McCreath and Leclair was 5th successful Sunday's last successful a nationalist grounds 42.46.

Canada was successful 4th successful its Saturday vigor erstwhile Leduc took the baton and powered past the Italian and Dutch runners to unafraid a second-place decorativeness (43.11) and clinch a berth astatine worlds.

WATCH | Canadian women acceptable nationalist grounds successful 4x100m:

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