A staff of six girls and 12 males are headed to Chiang Mai, Thailand to compete within the first-ever World Mountain and Path Championships. Mountain and path world championships have traditionally been held individually.
Canada’s athletes will race within the girls’s and males’s classes in all 4 of the championship’s senior-level occasions: the 80K and 40K path races, the traditional up and down occasion and the uphill-only mountain race (additionally known as vertical climb). Some athletes, like Squamish, B.C.’s Alexandre Ricard, will race in a number of occasions. Ricard will compete in each the vertical climb and traditional up and down championships.
Workforce Canada head coach Adrian Lambert shared that whereas the occasion’s newness makes it troublesome to know what the calibre of competitors can be, he expects his athletes to deal with one of the best. “We’re sending a really sturdy staff, so we’re hopeful to complete inside the highest 10 in our occasions,” Lambert mentioned. “Canada has traditionally competed effectively in each the Path and Mountain Operating Championships on the World degree, and we hope to proceed that on the mixed championships.”
The staff boasts some completed athletes and well-known names–on the lads’s aspect, Calum Neff beforehand held the Canadian 50K report, and is understood for his record-breaking stroller-pushing marathons. Teammate Ricard not too long ago received the 23K race on the Squamish 50 path occasion. “Ricard is an unstoppable power on uphill races in the meanwhile, It is going to be attention-grabbing to see how he stacks up towards one of the best on the planet,” mentioned Lambert.
On the ladies’s aspect, Sasha Gollish will head to the occasion after a exceptional grasp’s season. Already the ladies’s over-40 indoor mile world report holder, and a Workforce Canada member on the 2022 NACAC Half-Marathon championship, Gollish confirmed her wide-ranging talent set as soon as once more this previous weekend by successful the Vertical Climb on the Canadian Mountain and Path Operating Championships in Vernon, B.C.
Workforce Canada athletes and their occasions
Males:
Alexandre Ricard Males’s Traditional Uphill & Traditional Up & Down
Calum Neff Males’s Quick Path (40km)
Dany Racine Males’s Quick Path (40km)
David Jeker Males’s Lengthy Path (80km)
Jean-Philippe Thibodeau Males’s Lengthy Path (80km)
Jeffery Campbell Males’s Lengthy Path (80km)
Kris Swanson Uphill & Traditional Up & Down
Martin Dagenais Males’s Quick Path (40km)
Mathieu Dubé Males’s Lengthy Path (80km)
Matt Tribe Males’s Lengthy Path (80km)
Remi Leroux Males’s Traditional Uphill & Traditional Up & Down
Shaun Stephens-Whale Males’s Traditional Uphill & Traditional Up & Down
Ladies:
Joannie Desroches Ladies’s Lengthy Path (80km)
Kelsey Lepard Ladies’s Quick Path (40km)
Kerri Labrecque Ladies’s Vertical Uphill
Maika Lamoureux Ladies’s Lengthy Path (80km)
Sasha Gollish Ladies’s Traditional Uphill & Traditional Up & Down
Shannon Penway Ladies’s Traditional Uphill & Traditional Up & Down
For extra info on the occasion and to see race schedules, you possibly can head right here.
