Melissa Bishop runs under 800m Olympic A+ standard
Monday, June 04, 2012
Melissa
Bishop of Eganville, Ont., raced to an Olympic A+ standard in the women’s
800-metres, good for a third place finish at Holister Night at the Prefontaine
Classic in Eugene, Oregon. Bishop
stopped the clock in new a personal best of 1:59.82 and now needs to place in
the top three at the Trials later this month in Calgary to secure her spot at
the Olympic Games.
In the same race, Jessica Smith of North Vancouver, B.C., finished fifth in a
new personal best time and Olympic B standard time of 2:00.61.
On
Saturday at the Meeting International de Genève, Sarah Wells of Unionville,
Ont., placed 4th in the 400-metre hurdles in 55.97 seconds. This race marked Wells’ third trip under the
Olympic B standard in the span of ten days.
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Complete Olympic
athlete tracking
Paralympic Standards met over the
weekend
|
Athlete
|
Event
|
Performance
|
Paralympic Standard
|
|
Earle
Connor
|
T
42, 100m
|
12.89
|
Elite
|
|
Nathan
Dewitt
|
T34,
100m
|
17.94
|
Elite
|
|
Jon
Dunkerley
|
T11,
400m
|
54.84
|
A
Standard
|
|
Keira-Lyn
Frie
|
T54,
1500m
|
3:39.40
|
A
Standard
|
|
Brent
Lakatos
|
T53,
100m
|
14.94
|
Elite
|
|
Brent
Lakatos
|
T53,
200m
|
26.46
|
Elite
|
|
Stuart
McGregor
|
T13,
800m
|
1:58.65
|
A
Standard
|
|
Virginia
McLachlan
|
T35,
100m
|
16.84
|
Elite
|
|
Virginia
McLachlan
|
T35,
200m
|
34.57
|
Elite
|
|
Alister
McQueen
|
T44,
100m
|
12.20
|
A
Standard
|
|
Leah
Robinson
|
T
37, 800m
|
1:13.75
|
A
Standard
|
|
Diane
Roy
|
T54,
100m
|
18.03
|
A
Standard
|
|
Austin
Smeenk
|
T34,
200m
|
35.19
|
A
Standard
|
|
Eddy
Solla
|
T34,
100m
|
18.16
|
A
Standard
|
|
Michelle
Stilwell
|
T52,
100m
|
20.43
|
Elite
|
|
Curtis
Thom
|
T54,
100m
|
14.66
|
A
Standard
|
|
Kyle
Whitehouse
|
T38,
100m
|
12.43
|
A
Standard
|
|
Kyle
Whitehouse
|
T38,
200m
|
25.12
|
A
Standard
|
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