On Tuesday, Athletics Canada launched its roster for the 2023 World Athletics Cross Nation Championship. The workforce consists of 28 Canadians, who will journey to Bathurst, Australia, for the February 18 occasion. That is the primary cross-country championship held by World Athletics because the 2019 occasion in Aarhus, Denmark, because the 2021 occasion was cancelled attributable to COVID-19.
Athletics Canada to ship workforce of 28 athletes to World Cross-Nation Championships in Bathurst, Australia.
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— Athletics Canada (@AthleticsCanada) February 1, 2023
There might be 5 Canadian groups competing in Australia: males’s and ladies’s U20 groups, males’s and ladies’s open and a blended relay squad. Headlining the groups are 2022 Canadian cross-country champions Julie-Anne Staehli and Connor Black. In whole, Group Canada options 5 Olympians and 7 athletes who’ve beforehand competed on the World Athletics Cross-Nation Championship.
“Now we have nice management, expertise and expertise to permit Canada to satisfy the large problem of World Cross Nation racing,” mentioned workforce chief Thelma Wright. “Canada traditionally has wonderful particular person and workforce ends in each males’s and ladies’s U20 races, in addition to some excellent particular person performances in our Senior ranks. This years workforce might be no totally different and we glance to some very optimistic outcomes and shock performances.”
Wright added that whereas every of the Canadian groups has an opportunity to drop massive outcomes, the open ladies’s workforce might be particularly thrilling to look at. “With 5 of our six senior ladies having earlier world cross-country expertise, and with 4 Olympians on the workforce, our senior ladies’s workforce is one among our strongest in a decade.” Becoming a member of Staehli, who competed on the Tokyo Summer time Video games, are three different Olympians: Regan Yee, Natalia Allen (previously Natalia Hawthorn) and Maria Bernard-Galea. John Homosexual is the lone Olympian on the lads’s roster.
Again in Denmark in 2019, the Canadian groups had respectable showings, with the open ladies’s and blended relay groups each putting seventh, the ladies’s U20 workforce coming in sixth, the lads’s U20 squad ending twelfth and the open males sixteenth. Wright mentioned she thinks there’s an opportunity for every workforce to climb even larger up the ranks this 12 months.
The complete roster
| Athlete Identify | Hometown | Membership | Coach |
| U20 Males | |||
| Heath McAllister | London, ON | London Western T&F Membership | Dave Mills |
| Jack Lehto | Burlington, ON | Burlington T&F Membership | Terry Radchenko |
| Tion McLeish | Victoria, BC | College of Victoria | Hilary Stellingwerff |
| Tristan Coles | St. Thomas, ON | London Western T&F Membership | Dave Mills |
| Jaxon Kuchar | Path, BC | Victoria Endurance Monitor Membership | Hilary Stellingwerff |
| Gaetano Pocchi | Toronto, ON | Blue Devils Athletic Membership | Ben Devito |
| Non-travelling reserves | |||
| Angus Skinner | Kingston, ON | Physi-Kult | Brant Stachel |
| Tanner Hueglin | Bradford, ON | Newmarket Huskies | |
| U20 Ladies | |||
| Erin Vringer | Saint John, NB | Saint Johns Crimson Monitor Membership | Kyle Kepler |
| Marika Couture | Québec, QC | Membership d’athlétisme de l’Université Laval | Vincent Filion |
| Ella Ballard | Victoria, BC | Prairie Inn Harriers | Bruce Deacon |
| Emily Cescon | Toronto, ON | College of Toronto Monitor Membership | Ethan Davenport |
| Muriel Lovshin | Toronto, ON | Toronto Olympic Membership | Brian Lovshin |
| Michelle Grey | Mississauga, ON | Mississauga Monitor and Discipline Membership | Paul Carter |
| Non-travelling reserves | |||
| Sierra Rodrigues | Bolton, ON | Saint John Monitor Membership | Chris Belof |
| Léane Baril | Rouyn-Noranda, QC | Tracklass | Christian Villeneuve |
| Open Males | |||
| Connor Black | Forest, ON | London Western TFC | Dave Mills |
| John Homosexual | Kelowna, BC | Vancouver Thunderbirds Monitor & Discipline Membership | Chris Johnson |
| Max Turek | Whitby, ON | Harbour Monitor | Paula Schnurr |
| Phil Parrot-Migas | London, ON | London Western TFC | Dave Wills |
| Mitchell Ubene | Tecumseh, ON | Royal Metropolis Athletics Membership | Terry Radchenko |
| Andrew Davies | Hamilton, ON | Harbour Monitor | Paula Schnurr |
| Non-travelling reserves | |||
| Jeremy Coughler | London, ON | London Western T&F Membership | Dave Mills |
| Mike Tate | Antigonish, NS | London Western T&F Membership | Dave Mills |
| Open Ladies | |||
| Julie-Anne Staehli | Lucknow, ON | Group New Steadiness Boston | Mark Coogan |
| Natalia Allen | North Vancouver, BC | Vancouver Thunderbirds / Brooks | Chris Johnson |
| Katelyn Ayers | Orillia, ON | Victoria Endurance Membership | Hilary Stellingwerff |
| Kate Bazeley | St. Johns, NL | Newfoundland Athletics | Jon Brown |
| Regan Yee | South Hazelton, BC | Beneath Armour | Stephen Haas |
| Maria Bernard-Galea | Calgary, AB | College of Calgary Athletics Membership | Matthew Galea |
| Non-travelling reserves | |||
| Jessy Lacourse | Québec, QC | Membership d’athlétisme de l’Université Laval | Félix-Antoine Lapointe |
| Branna MacDougall | Glenburnie, ON | Physi-Kult | Steve Boyd |
| Blended Relay | |||
| Jazz Shukla | Toronto, ON | Royal Metropolis Athletics Membership | Terry Radchenko |
| Erin Teschuk | Winnipeg, MB | New Steadiness | Andrew Carlson |
| Matthew Beaudet | Montreal, QC | Membership St-Laurent Sélect (CSLS) | Samuel Marion |
| Perry MacKinnon | Coaticook, QC | Sherbrooke | Jean-Pierre Lemelin |
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