Canada’s Olympic champion, Andre De Grasse, had a profitable day on the observe on Tuesday, successful each the lads’s 100m and 200m occasions on the 63rd Ostrava Golden Spike Continental Tour meet in the Czech Republic.
De Grasse recorded season’s best instances in the 100m and 200m, regardless of the cool and wet circumstances. He received the 100m, beating 2021 Olympic gold medallist Marcell Jacobs, in a time of 10.10 seconds, then adopted it up with one other win in the 200m 90 minutes later, in 20.09 seconds.
Degrasse on high over 100m 👀 @De6rasse beats @crazylongjumper at @ZlataTretra with 10.10.#ContinentalTourGold
Watch 📺: https://t.co/3p8Ulw72C1 pic.twitter.com/n9snTjQM0Q— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) May 28, 2024
“It’s an excellent coaching session for me,” De Grasse instructed World Athletics in a post-race interview. “I wished to come out right here, check my health and endurance and see the place I’m at.”
For De Grasse, operating these instances in less-than-ideal circumstances simply two months earlier than the Paris Olympic Games is an effective signal, with the Bell Canadian Track and Field Trials 4 weeks from now. De Grasse has already hit Olympic qualification in the 200 metres, however has but to run the 100m customary of 10.00 seconds.
De Grasse making an announcement right here in Ostrava 🙌
The Canadian wins the 100m and 200m on the World Athletics Continental Tour simply 2 months out from #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/NX0PCMN0zW
— CBC Olympics (@CBCOlympics) May 28, 2024
“It’s early in the season, however I’m pleased with the consequence. The climate was just a little bit chilly for the 200, however subsequent time I’ll get the sub-20,” De Grasse stated. He will now head the world over to Taiwan to race one other 200m on June 2.
Charles Philibert-Thiboutot data 1,500m season’s best
Although Quebec’s Charles Philibert-Thiboutot already hit the Olympic customary for the lads’s 1,500m occasion final yr, he has had a slower begin to the 2024 out of doors season than he wished. Philibert-Thiboutot opened his season with a 3:36.73 on May 19 and adopted six days later with a 3:37.10 effort in France. On Tuesday afternoon in Ostrava, the 33-year-old ran a season’s best 3:34.50, after placing himself in a place to win with one lap to go.
The daring transfer labored out for Philibert-Thiboutot, as he knocked two seconds off his earlier best from this season and completed fourth. He will compete once more in the 1,500m occasion at this Sunday’s Stockholm Diamond League in Sweden.