Tag: relay

26 AUG

Canada swims to 3rd relay gold at world junior championships

Canada captured its third-straight relay gold at the FINA world junior championships with a win in the 4×100-metre freestyle on Friday. Ruslan Gaziev, Alexander Pratt, Taylor Ruck and Olympic star Penny Oleksiak finished in three minutes 26.65 seconds to defend Canada’s title in the event. “The mixed 4×100 free relay was our toughest challenge to […]

14 AUG

Usain Bolt opens up on relay injury: Jamaican legend blames pulled hamstring on race delay

Bolt had been hoping to avenge his last ever individual race, where he could only grab bronze behind 100m winner Justin Gatlin, with relay gold. But the 30-year-old was denied the perfect finish to his track career by a hamstring problem in the home straight that stopped him from anchoring Jamaica to victory. Afterwards, team-mate […]

12 AUG

Usain Bolt INJURED in final race relay nightmare at World Athletics Championships

But Great Britain won gold to take their first ever title in the men’s 4×100 metres relay. Running in the final leg for Jamaica, Bolt pulled up with around 60m to go and tumbled to the track. Stewards offered to help Bolt with a wheelchair but the sprint legend opted to limp away and applaud […]

12 AUG

Bolt, Gatlin to get last duel in men's 4x100m relay

Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin will meet in a final duel on the track after helping their teams qualify for the final of the 4×100-metre relay at the world championships on Saturday in London.  The Canadian entry of Gavin Smellie, Aaron Brown, Brendon Rodney and Mobolade Ajomale, with a time of 38.48 seconds, also qualified for […]

26 JUL

World-record breaking swimmer Masse adds bronze in mixed relay

Canada’s Kylie Masse added to her medal haul at the world aquatics championships.  One day after making history, Masse, along with Richard Funk, Penny Oleksiak and Yuri Kisil combined to finish in a tie for third place with China on Wednesday in the mixed 4×100-metre medley relay at the swimming world championships in Budapest. Canada stopped the […]

23 JUL

Canada's women's relay team held off the podium at world aquatics championships

Canada was held off the podium in the women’s 4×100-metre freestyle relay final at the world aquatics championships in Budapest, Hungary on Sunday. Penny Oleksiak, Chantal Van Landeghem, Sandrine Mainville, and Kayla Sanchez finished fourth with a time of three minutes 33.88 seconds.  The United States, featuring Olympic standouts Katie Ledecky and Simone Manuel, came in at 3:31.72 to take gold. Australia was second at […]

22 JUL

Bolt wins 100m at Diamond League Monaco; De Grasse, relay team DQ'd

Olympic star Usain Bolt held off the field to win the 100 metres Friday at IAAF Diamond League Monaco event, while Canada’s 4×100-metre men’s relay team of Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Brendon Rodney, and Gavin Smellie was disqualified after a bad exchange.  Bolt edged American Isiah Young to win in a season-best time of 9.95 […]