Markham, Ont., native Leslie Sexton has raced a half marathon, 5K road race and 5,000 metres on the track the past six weeks. On Saturday, she’ll run mainly on grass in the senior women’s 10K at the cross-country worlds.
Vancouver resident Leslie Sexton, who is challenging herself over different distances and surfaces before the April 28 Hamburg Marathon, will take to the grass and sand-covered pedestrian paths in the women’s 10-kilometre race Saturday at the World Athletics Cross-Country Championships. Leslie Sexton feels good physically and appears poised to make a final attempt on April 28 in Hamburg, Germany at qualifying for her first Olympic marathon.
The 36-year-old ran a personal-best time of two hours 28 minutes 14 seconds in Houston for her third consecutive sub-2:29 performance and fell one minute 14 seconds shy of the automatic entry standard for the Aug. 11 women's Olympic marathon in Paris. Watch Saturday's action from Serbia on CBCSports.ca, the CBC Sports app and CBC Gem. Coverage begins at 5:30 a.m. ET, with the women's U20 race at 6 a.m. The U20 men , senior women and senior men will follow.
Sifan Hassan won't race Saturday after a fourth-place effort in the Tokyo Marathon on March 3. The 2021 double Olympic champion in the 5,000 and 10,000 said in a recent Instagram post she needs to give her body time to heal while focusing on her preparation for Paris.'It was a next-level experience': Canada's Kate Bazeley on World Marathon Major debut
Turek, the 2022 U Sports male cross-country athlete of the year, was second in the half marathon at the Toronto Waterfront event last October.Jeremy Coughler of Port Hope, Ont. , Thomas Fafard of Repentigny, Que. and Turek enter Saturday coming off personal-best times in the 10,000 on March 16 at The TEN event in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. Toronto's Andrew Alexander ran a separate 10,000 race at The TEN and is competing Saturday.
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