The outside racing season is easily underway, and past the Diamond League, Canadians are lining up at quite a lot of places this weekend. From Los Angeles to Prague, there are a number of giant races as athletes glance to succeed in global usual forward of the International Athletics Championships in Budapest in August.

Sound Working Monitor Fest, Might 6

There’s a specifically robust contingent of Canadians operating the 1,500m and 5,000m this weekend in LA. Gabriela DeBues-Stafford is operating her first race since her damage in 2022, and Ben Flanagan is ready to proceed an already spectacular run of races with a 5,000m. Only a few weeks in the past, Flanagan raced the B.A.A. 5K, completing 2d in a Canadian file. 

In American information, phenom Katelyn Tuohy seems to be to take a run at Jenny Simpson’s collegiate file of 15:01.70. The NC State runner is a multi-time NCAA champion who may just upload “sub-15 runner” to her resume on Saturday. 

800m: Addy Townsend of Coquitlam, B.C.

1,500m: Charlie Dannatt, Regan Yee, Robert Heppenstall, Gabriela DeBues-Stafford, Kieran Lumb 

5,000m: Erin Teschuk, Jessy Lacourse, Thomas Fafard, Nick Bannon, Julie-Anne Staehli, Ben Flanagan, Charles Philibert-Thiboutot

3,000m steeplechase: Ceili McCabe, Jean-Simon Desgagnes

10,000m: Mike Tate

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Prague Marathon, Might 7

Over in Europe, Ben Preisner and Justin Kent might be lining up on the Prague Marathon within the Czech Republic on Sunday morning. Preisner has run the fourth-fastest marathon of any Canadian, at the back of Cam Levins, Trevor Hofbauer and Jerome Drayton. Preisner ran a 1:02:42 on the Houtson Part in January.

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