Lucia Stafford and Marco Arop win tickets to the World Cup finals

Team Canada got off to a great start at the 2022 World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. Lucia Stafford When Marco Allop Qualifying for the finals at each event – 1,500 girls and 800 boys. Olympic Champion Damian Warner He started bidding for the World Cup and led the Heptathlon after three events.

After a slow scramble at 800 meters from one of my pre-course favorites Elliot Giles In the UK, Canada Allop solved the problem on its own, winning the heat at 1:48:13 and rising to the final on Saturday. Favorites in the final. Blythe Hoppel When Isaiah Harris..

Stafford was caught in a fierce heat at the ladies 1500m, but moved away from the main pack and increased his pace in two laps. Gudaf Tsegae Ethiopia’s girlfriend finished second in the heat at 4: 07.95 and made it to the finals on Saturday afternoon.

Jacob Klopp from Kenya collapsed in the first round and took on John Gay from Canada.

Gay caught the puck, but in the heat 1 of the men’s 3,000m he finished 8th (7: 57.56).#WorldIndoors #TeamCanada

– Canadian Running (@CanadianRunning) March 18, 2022

Two other Canadian men John is gay When Ehab El-Sandali, World Indoor debut at 3,000m for boys. All three heats were tactical as both Gay and El Sandari lost contact with the Lead Pack to stay with two rounds. Jacob Crop Only the top 4 played in the final on Sunday, so he had to stop. Gay finished 8th at 7: 57.56 and El Sandari finished 11th at 8: 00.64 (competed one week after the NCAA Championship). There was not enough time to make it to the finals.

Warner will lead the men’s heptathlon after three events. Warner is aiming for his first world title after the gold medal in 2018. He ran his personal best of 6.68 seconds on 60 meters and achieved the best performance of the season of 8.05 meters in the long jump.

Warner currently leads over 58 points Simon Ehammer With Switzerland Ashmorony Australian. The next event is the high jump, which will take place at 14:00 EST in this afternoon’s session.

Other notables this afternoon:

Women’s 3,000m (Final) – Gabriela DeBues-Stafford, Julian Nustari (15:30 ET)

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