It’s loopy to assume that only a yr in the past, Gatineau, Que.’s Audrey Leduc was solely setting her first nationwide document–clocking 10.96 seconds to interrupt Angela Bailey‘s 36-year-old 100m mark of 10.98 seconds, set in 1987. Quick ahead to Sunday night in Edmonton, the place Leduc improved on that mark for the third time, crossing the road within the prelims on the Edmonton Athletics Invitational in 10.94 seconds.
Leduc’s run shaved 0.01 seconds off her earlier private better of 10.95 (set on the Paris Olympics final August) and earned her the world championships qualifying commonplace of 11.07 for September in Tokyo.
Audrey Leduc lowers her @AthleticsCanada 🇨🇦 Canadian 100m document in Edmonton in the course of the prelims!
⏱️ 10.94 (0.9W)@WorldAthletics pic.twitter.com/3SFRbOSkqE
— RunnerSpace (@runnerspace) July 13, 2025
Leduc defended her meet title an hour later, operating 11.06–her second-fastest time of the season, which additionally dipped underneath the world commonplace.
The efficiency comes only a few weeks after Ajax, Ont., sprinter Sadé McCreath matched Leduc’s earlier document of 10.95 seconds in an enormous private greatest, additionally touchdown a world-championship-qualifying mark.
Morales Williams and Sutherland hit 400m world requirements
Within the 400m occasion, 20-year-old Christopher Morales Williams of Vaughan, Ont., threw down a giant season’s better of 44.85, hitting the world commonplace on the dot. The efficiency marked the primary time this season that the Olympic sprinter, who owns the Canadian document of 44.05, has damaged 45 seconds.
On the ladies’s aspect, Canadian and NCAA 400m hurdles document holder Savannah Sutherland ditched the hurdles to make an unforgettable skilled debut sporting Adidas’ signature triple stripes. The Borden, Sask., native clocked a blistering 50.62, smashing each her private better of 51.23 and the world commonplace of fifty.75. The efficiency additionally marks the quickest 400m by a Canadian in 2025.
Canada’s Savannah Sutherland makes historical past as Bowerman finalist
See right here for full outcomes from the Edmonton Athletics Invitational .
