{"id":59518,"date":"2015-08-20T22:25:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=59518"},"modified":"2025-01-08T05:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T10:19:25","slug":"5-canadian-athletes-to-watch-at-world-track-and-field-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/20\/5-canadian-athletes-to-watch-at-world-track-and-field-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Canadian athletes to watch at world track and field championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_59519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59519\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/569142_G08_W01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59519\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/569142_G08_W01.jpg\" alt=\"Shawnacy Barber, one of the the athletes who will be competing at the world track and field championships (Photo from the Canadian Press\/Claus Andersen)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/569142_G08_W01.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/569142_G08_W01-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawnacy Barber, one of the the athletes who will be competing at the world track and field championships (Photo from the Canadian Press\/Claus Andersen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Canada will field one of its deepest teams in history at the world track and field championships that begin Saturday in Beijing. Canada is aiming to top its five medals won in 2013 in Moscow.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy lipitor online <a href=\"https:\/\/bradencenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/lipitor.html\">https:\/\/bradencenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/lipitor.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Here are five Canadians to watch:<\/p>\n<p>Shawnacy Barber \u2013 The 21-year-old has broken the Canadian pole vault record so many times this season, it might as well be written in pencil. The NCAA indoor and outdoor champion won the Pan Am Games, and then less than a week later, cleared 5.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy zofran online <a href=\"https:\/\/bradencenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/zofran.html\">https:\/\/bradencenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/zofran.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>93 metres in London \u2013 another Canadian record. He\u2019s ranked No. 3 in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Brianne Theisen-Eaton \u2013 The 26-year-old from Humboldt, Sask., is ranked No. 1 in the world in the heptathlon. The world bronze medallist in 2013 won this year&#8217;s prestigious Hypo Meeting in Austria, with a Canadian-record 6,808 points, almost 300 points better than anyone else in the world this season.<\/p>\n<p>Damian Warner \u2013 The 25-year-old from London, Ont., won the decathlon at the Pan Am Games, scoring 8,659 to break Michael Smith&#8217;s 19-year-old Canadian record. The score ranks him No. 2 in the world, although Olympic champion Ashton Eaton \u2013 husband to Brianne \u2013 has yet to compete in a decathlon this season.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy kamagra gold online <a href=\"https:\/\/bradencenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/kamagra-gold.html\">https:\/\/bradencenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/kamagra-gold.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Christabel Nettey \u2013 The 24-year-old from Surrey, B.C., has been consistently solid in the long jump all season, proving her Canadian record of 6.99 metres was no fluke. The Pan American Games gold medallist goes into the world championships ranked No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Derek Drouin \u2013 The 25-year-old from Corunna, Ont., is an Olympic and world championship bronze medallist in high jump. He got off to a slow start this season, but cleared 2.37 metres \u2013 which ranks him third in the world \u2013 to win the Pan Am Games. His Canadian-record height of 2.40 he set last season would put him No. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada will field one of its deepest teams in history at the world track and field championships that begin Saturday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":59519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-59518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-original","mauthors-lori-ewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280664,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59518\/revisions\/280664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}