2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships Team Selected
Monday, March 01, 2010
OTTAWA – Athletics
Canada announced today the team that will compete at the 2010 International
Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) World Indoor Championships. The 2010
World lndoors take place in Doha, Qatar March 12th through 14th
at the Aspire Dome which seats 15,000 spectators.
Canadians aspiring to World
Indoor titles in Doha
Dylan Armstrong of Kamloops, BC will be looking
to better his own national mark which he set earlier this indoor season.
Armstrong broke the 12-year old shot put record; he now holds both the Canadian
indoor and outdoor records.
Pickering Ontario native Tabia Charles will take
on the world’s best in the long jump. Earlier this season Tabia established a
new Canadian indoor long jump record; she now holds both the indoor and outdoor
long jump and the indoor and outdoor triple jump records.
Making her first World stage appearance is
Nicole Edwards of Winnipeg, MB. Edwards ran an impressive 4:29.42 in the mile
earlier in January to secure her spot on the team; she will compete in the 1500
metres.
World class hurdler Perdita Felicien of
Pickering, ON goes into the event as a favourite to step on the podium.
Felicien won gold at the 2004 World Indoor Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Already bettering the Canadian record in the
Pole Vault twice this year, Kelsie Hendry of Saskatoon, SK will take centre
stage in Doha.
The current World Leader, Whitby Ontario’s
Priscilla Lopes-Schliep is looking to add gold in the 60 metre hurdles to her
medal collection. Lopes-Schliep won the 100 metre hurdles bronze medal at the
2008 Olympic Games and took Silver at the 2009 World Championships.
For all the latest information
on the World Indoor Championships including athlete profiles, schedule, results
and more visit http://www.athletics.ca/page.asp?id=497.
At the last showing of the
World Indoor Championships, the Canadian track & field team came away with
a gold medal won by Tyler Christopher in the 400 metres.
