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Remembering Angela Bailey, Canadian 100m record holder

The late Angela Bailey set the Canadian women's 100m record, at 10.98, in 1987

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Canadian track and field star Angela Bailey passed away on July 31 at age 59 after a battle with cancer. Bailey was a two-time Olympian, representing Canada at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Games. She was also selected for the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow but did not attend, due to Canada’s boycott of the Games that year.  

At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Bailey won a silver medal in the women’s 4×100 relay. She also won three silver medals, also in the 4x100m relay, at the Commonwealth Games in 1978, 1982 and 1986. 

In 1987, Bailey set the women’s 100m record at 10.98, and her record in the indoor 200m, set in 1984 at 23.32, is the longest-standing women’s indoor track record in Canada. 

Off the track, Bailey had a career in real estate before going into law. She graduated from Queen’s University Faculty of Law and was called to the bar in 2003. 

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