On Tuesday, Athletics Canada unveiled the 28 athletes who will symbolize the nation on the 2026 World Cross-Nation Championships. Choice was primarily based on outcomes from the 2025 Canadian Cross-Nation Championships (ACXC) in London, Ont., the place, over the weekend, the nation’s finest fought for prestigious nationwide crowns and a spot on Group Canada.
The World Championships race is about for Jan. 10 at Tallahassee, Fla.’s Apalachee Regional Park, returning to the U.S. for the primary time in additional than three a long time. The final version of the occasion came about in Bathurst, Australia, in 2023.
To be eligible for choice, Canadian athletes will need to have completed inside the highest 10 of their respective divisions at ACXC, with Athletics Canada naming as much as six runners per workforce.
Main the way in which for Canada are senior 10K champions Ceili McCabe and Moh Ahmed. On Saturday, McCabe claimed her second nationwide XC title in three years with a dominant wire-to-wire win. She stopped the clock at 32:57 to win by almost a minute. Ahmed, making his first look at Canadian XC nationals in 13 years, captured his first-ever senior XC crown.
Girls’s open 10K
Ceili McCabe (Vancouver)
Chloe Thomas (Dundas, Ont.)
Florence Caron (La Malbaie, Que.)
Grace Fetherstonhaugh (New Westminster, B.C.)
Makenna Fitzgerald (Kamloops, B.C.)
Glynis Sim (Salmon Arm, B.C.)
Males’s open 10K
Moh Ahmed (St. Catharines, Ont.)
Xavier Perras-Phaneuf (LaSalle, Que.)
Santiago Gaitan (Welland, Ont.)
Matt Talbot (Ailsa Craig, Ont.)
Evan Burke (Kearney, Ont.)
Philippe Morneau-Cartier (La Pocatière, Que.)
8K blended relay
Foster Malleck (Kitchener, Ont.)
Jean-Simon Desgagnés (Saint-Ferréol-Les-Neiges, Que.)
Kate Present (Cobourg, Ont.)
Regan Yee (Vancouver)
Girls’s U20 6K
Adrianna Buitelaar (Abbotsford, B.C.)
Kayley Torrie (Cochrane, Alta.)
Eleanor Voykin (Toronto)
Zoe Mosher (Pleasantville, N.S.)
Athena Andrecyk (Kingston, Ont.)
Riley Innes (Newmarket, Ont.)
Males’s U20 6K
Chase Capes (Sarnia, Ont.)
Brody Clark (Milton, Ont.)
William Scharf (Toronto)
Oliver Crowe (St. Catharines, Ont.)
Saul Speaks (Ottawa)
That’s Torrie (Cochrane, Alta.)
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