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Alysha Newman is heading to the world track and field championships in London next month after winning her second straight national title this past weekend in Ottawa.
The 23-year-old Olympian established a meet record by clearing 4.65 metres in the women’s pole vault final.
Caroline Ehrhardt won her sixth national women’s triple jump title, but also finally put together the kind of career-defining leap she has been dreaming about for years.
Her 13.53m effort on her fourth attempt ranked as the fourth longest jump in Canadian women’s history.
“It’s great to have that moment at nationals, where you want to have a good performance,” the 25-year-old London-Western track club member said Sunday by phone. “It was a huge breakthrough to make the Canadian all-time list.”
Ehrhardt still has some distance to go to get the Canadian record of 13.99m, established by Tabia Charles seven years ago. She won’t be going to worlds, either because the standard is at 14.10m — higher than that Canadian mark.
Damian Warner, a favourite for decathlon world gold next month, won the national long jump crown (7.53m) by eight centimetres and finished third in a wild, spill-filled 110m hurdles final in 13.69.
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