Canadian dash canoeist Katie Vincent set a world file within the ladies’s C-1 500-metre occasion on Sunday on the nationwide trials in Montreal.
The 29-year-old Olympic champion clocked a time of two minutes 0.609 seconds within the closing on the Olympic Basin, breaking the earlier mark of 2:00.73 set by Alena Nazdrova of Belarus on the 2019 world championships in Szeged, Hungary.
2022 world silver medallist Sophia Jensen of Chelsea, Que., completed one spot behind Vincent in 2:03.159.
🚨WORLD RECORD TIME ALERT!🚨
Katie Vincent simply set the water on hearth in Montreal with a private finest AND world file time at Nationwide Workforce Trials! 🔥🌊🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/mpWUONe93b
Vincent, who hails from Mississauga, Ont., grew to become the first-ever Canadian girl to seize Olympic gold within the sport at Paris 2024 by profitable the C-1 200m race — the lone particular person ladies’s canoe dash occasion on the Video games. Her profitable time of 44.12 seconds can also be a world file.
The 2-time Olympian gained bronze medals in Tokyo and Paris within the C-2 500m occasion, alongside Laurence Vincent Lapointe and Sloan MacKenzie, respectively.
The 2025 ICF Canoe Dash World Championships can be held in Milan from Aug. 20 to 24.
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