Oregon Overview – Day 2 Recap – Mitton and Brown bring fans to their feet

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The second day of competition for Team Canada was characterized by close calls: a 1,500m runner snagging a wild card spot, a 100m veteran beating out the competition by 0.06 seconds and punching his ticket to the final, and a tiebreaker for bronze in the shot put. Here are three of Team Canada’s highlights from Saturday’s events: each of them reminding athletes and fans how track and field is a game of inches.

Sarah Mitton finishes fourth – loses Shotput bronze in a tiebreaker

Sarah Mitton, the thrower from Brooklyn, Nova Scotia who spent much of 2022 re-writing Canada’s shotput record books, came within not even a centimetre of the podium in her first World Championship final.

The 26-year-old thrower finished fourth, one spot behind her pre-competition ranking, after her second-best throw was found to have travelled less far than Netherlands athlete Jessica Schilder's, the eventual bronze medalist.

“It was a little tougher than I would have liked it to be,” said Mitton, whose best toss of 19.77m in the last round of the final came close to her lifetime best of 20.33m.

“But at the end of the comp, to be able to come out and put out ‘last throw best throw’, I’m really proud of that. I really wished there was a cm more in there, but fourth place for me, I’ll take it this year, but next year I want to be on the podium.”

Brown Finishes eighth in 100m final

Aaron Brown came to the track on Saturday with a mission: to qualify for his second consecutive world championship 100m final. The 30-year-old sprinter had finished eighth in Doha in a time of 10.08.

By late afternoon, it was mission accomplished. Brown clinched a spot in the final after exploding out of the blocks and tying his season’s best of 10.06, in a semi-final dominated by Fred Kerley and his three American teammates. Brown was the only Canadian to make it through to the final, after Andre De Grasse failed to qualify from heat 2. De Grasse, the reigning Olympic bronze medalist in the 100m and 200m champion, had recently recovered from COVID-19, and said he was not disappointed with his 10.21 finish. Until recently, he was not even sure if he would compete.

 “It wasn’t the greatest, recovering from illness... I thought I could at least make the finals but I guess guys are running fast right now and I didn’t have enough in the tank to get it done,” said De Grasse, adding that he would decide whether or not the 200m is in the cards, but that he plans to give it his all in the 4x100m for his teammates.

As De Grasse bowed out, Brown prepared for the world 100m final. Under a silenced crowd, he once again exploded out of the blocks, running a near carbon copy of his semi final race. This time, he stopped the clock at 10.07. Like in Doha, he finished the competition in eighth.

“I wanted to place better today, but it’s just more fuel to the fire,” said Brown. This championship isn’t over me. I still have the 200m – I look at myself as a 200m guy. I’m looking to do better things - I want to come back better.”

Three Canadian men make it to 1500m semis

Canada's metric milers excelled in a deep 1500m field and sailed through the qualification round on Saturday night.

Cameron Proceviat of Vancouver had to settle for ninth place in heat 1, after being boxed in through the final lap. His time of 3:37.43 gave him a chance to make it to the next round despite finishing outside of the auto-qualifying top six. He watched on the sidelines as his teammates Charles Philibert-Thiboutot and Will Paulson punched their tickets to the semis.

Philibert-Thiboutot charged towards the finish line in heat 2 to post a season’s best of 3:35.02. It was the second-fastest time across all three heats, and less than a second off of his lifetime best. Moments later, Will Paulson finished third in heat 3, also qualifying for the semi with a time of 3:39.21.

“I knew I’d have to run a season’s best or a PB in the heats,” said Philibert-Thiboutot, a 2016 Olympian and more recently the 2022 Canadian 5,000m champion. “I know I have more in the tank.”

To Proceviat's delight, his time still ranked him inside the top-24, good enough to move on and snag a spot on the next evening's start line.

The 1,500m semis take place on Sunday night at 7:00 p.m. PST.  

Four storylines to follow on July 16 (Times PST)

Levins, Preisner and Linkletter to rep Canada in the marathon – 6:15 a.m.

Camryn Rogers takes on the world in the hammer throw final – 11:35 a.m.

Moh Ahmed hits the track for the 10,000m – 1:00 p.m.

Paulson, Philibert-Thiboutot and Proceviat in action again, this time in 1,500m semi final – 7:00 p.m.

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