Team Canada selections for 2019 Pan Am Games
Here are the runners and multi-event athletes who will represent Canada in Lima, Peru next month. Photo: Victah Sailor/PhotoRun
Athletics Canada has announced Team Canada members for the 2019 Pan American Games, to be held in Lima, Peru from July 26 to August 11. A total of 46 Canadian athletes will travel to Lima, including 35 runners and multi-event athletes.
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The Games will provide an excellent opportunity to race a few months before this year’s world championhips in Doha in September, and the team hopes to top the 27 podium finishes it earned at the 2015 Games in Toronto. Two notable medallists from 2015 include decathlete Damian Warner, who won gold, and Gen Lalonde, who won bronze in the 3,000m steeplechase.
Lalonde achieved Canada’s best finish for a woman since 2004 at the World Cross Country Championships in Denmark in March and set a new personal best in the 1,500m at the Speed River Inferno in Guelph earlier this month. Lalonde holds the Canadian record in the 3,000m steeplechase, which she will be running in Lima.
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Other names to note include Canadian marathon and half-marathon record-holder Rachel Cliff, heptathlete Georgia Ellenwood, Canadian 10,000m record-holder Natasha Wodak and Canadian 800m record-holder Brandon McBride.
Can't wait to wear the ?? in Lima! https://t.co/vdaAaynAhd
— Jessica O'Connell (@jess__oconnell) June 26, 2019
Here are the athletes who will be traveling to Lima next month, in alphabetical order. (Names with asterisks are athletes who also represented Canada at the 2015 Pan Am Games.)
| Name | Event(s) | Personal Coach | Hometown | Club Affiliation |
| Mobolade Ajomale | Men’s 100m, 4x100m relay | Kevin Lasure | Thornhill West, Ont. | Flying Angels Track & Field Academy |
| Marco Arop | Men’s 800m | Ron Thompson | Edmonton, Alta. | Voleo Athletics |
| Ashlan Best | Women’s 4x100m relay | Gabe Sanders | Guelph, Ont. | Speed River Track and Field Club |
| Mathieu Bilodeau | Men’s 50km race walk | David Gagnon | Canmore, Alta. | Unattached |
| Khamica Bingham* | Women’s 4x100m relay | Dennis Shaver | Brampton, Ont. | Brampton Track Club |
| Jerome Blake | Men’s 200m, 4x100m relay | Tara Self | Vancouver, B.C. | Coquitlam Cheetahs Track and Field Club |
| Maïté Bouchard | Women’s 800m | Simon Croteau | Sherbrooke, Que. | Athlétisme Sherbrooke |
| Leya Buchanan | Women’s 100m, 4x100m relay | John Smith | Mississauga, Ont. | Unattached |
| Lindsey Butterworth | Women’s 800m | Brit Townsend | North Vancouver, B.C. | Coastal Track Club |
| Johnathan Cabral* | Men’s 110m hurdles | Tim O’Neil | Peribonka, Que. | Unattached |
| Keira Christie-Galloway | Women’s 100m hurdles | Hugh Conlin | Ottawa, Ont. | Ottawa Lions Track & Field Club |
| Rachel Cliff | Women’s 10,000m | Richard Lee | Vancouver, B..C | Mile2Marathon |
| Kyra Constantine | Women’s 400m, 4x400m relay | Caryl Smith Gilbert | Brampton, Ont. | Project Athletics Track and Field Program |
| Men’s 50km race walk, 20km race walk | Gerald Dragomir | Richmond, B.C. | Racewalk West | |
| Georgia Ellenwood | Heptathlon | Nate Davis | Langley, B.C. | Langley Mustangs Track and Field Club |
| Crystal Emmanuel* | Women’s 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay | Charles Allen | Toronto, Ont. | Flying Angels Track & Field Academy |
| Ben Flanagan | Men’s 10,000m | Chris Fox | Kitchener, Ont. | Unattached |
| Phylicia George* | Women’s 100m hurdles, 4x100m relay | Darryl Woodson | Markham, Ont. | Flying Angels Track & Field Academy |
| Travia Jones | Women’s 4x400m relay | Darryl Woodson | Regina, Sask. | Unattached |
| Geneviève Lalonde* | Women’s 3000m steeplechase | Dave Scott-Thomas | Moncton, N.B. | Speed River Track and Field Club |
| Pierce LePage | Men’s decathlon | Gregory Portnoy | Whitby, Ont. | Unattached |
| Rory Linkletter | Men’s 10,000m | Ed Eyestone | Calgary, Alta. | Unattached |
| Brandon McBride* | Men’s 800m | Kurt Downes | Windsor, Ont. | Border City Athletics Club |
| Natassha McDonald | Women’s 400m, 4x400m relay | Wellesley Johnson | Brampton, Ont. | Project Athletics Track and Field Program |
| Jessica O’Connell* | Women’s 5000m | Mike Van Tighen | Calgary, Alta. | University of Calgary Athletics Club |
| Philip Osei* | Men’s 400m | Jason Kerr | Toronto, Ont. | Speed River Track and Field Club |
| William Paulson | Men’s 1500m | Cory Leslie | Quebec, Que. | Club d’Athlétisme de l’Université Laval |
| Brendon Rodney* | Men’s 200m, 4x100m relay | Maurice Wilson | Etobicoke, Ont. | Unattached |
| Andrea Seccafien | Women’s 5000m | Nic Bideau | Guelph, Ont. | Monarch Athletics Club |
| Ryan Smeeton |
Men’s 3000m steeplechase | Dave Smith | Calgary, Alta. | Unattached |
| Gavin Smellie* | Men’s 100m, 4x100m relay | Milt Ottey | Brampton, Ont. | Flying Angels Track & Field Academy |
| Aiyanna Stiverne | Women’s 200m, 4x100m relay, 4x400m relay | Ronald Morency | Laval, Que. | Unattached |
| Damian Warner* | Men’s decathlon, 4x100m relay | Gar Leyshon | London, Ont. | Unattached |
| Sage Watson* | Women’s 400m hurdles, 4x400m relay | Fred Harvey | Medicine Hat, Alta. | Unattached |
| Natasha Wodak* | Women’s 10,000m | Lynn Kanuka | North Vancouver, B.C. | Prairie Inn Harriers |
| Regan Yee | Women’s 3000m steeplechase | Mark Bomba | South Hazelton, B.C. | Langley Mustangs Track and Field Club |
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