American monitor star Josh Hoey might need stolen the worldwide highlight at Saturday’s Sharon Colyear-Danville season opener at Boston College, smashing the indoor 600m world report in 1:12.84, nevertheless it was an unforgettable day for Canada’s rising stars. Within the first indoor monitor meet of the 2025-26 indoor season, 4 Canadian age-group information fell, because of standout runs from Robin Lefebvre (Quebec), Jadyn Keeler (Ontario), Chloe Symon (B.C.) and Xavier Perras-Phaneuf (Quebec).
Robin Lefebvre cracks eight minutes in historic 3,000m
In his first-ever 3,000m race, Montreal’s 18-year-old Lefebvre shattered the boys’s U20 indoor nationwide report in a blistering 7:58.22, changing into the primary Canadian U20 athlete in historical past to dip under the elusive eight-minute mark. The previous report of 8:04.3, set by Ian Clarke in 1979, had stood untouched for 46 years.
Lefebvre’s efficiency additionally ranks because the second-best Canadian U20 mark of all time, together with out of doors runs.
Jadyn Keeler units nationwide mark in quickest NCAA indoor 5,000m ever
Within the quickest indoor collegiate ladies’s 5,000m ever contested, headlined by BYU freshman Jane Hedengren‘s NCAA report of 14:44.79, Barrie, Ont.’s Keeler stamped her identify into the Canadian report books. The College of North Dakota (UND) athlete completed eighth in 15:14.76, surpassing the nationwide U23 report of 15:17.47, set final 12 months by Dundas, Ont.’s Chloe Thomas.
Keeler’s run capped a outstanding 2025 trajectory, marking a 13-second private greatest and decreasing her personal UND faculty report, whereas rating because the second-fastest Canadian U23 efficiency of all-time, together with out of doors races.
In the identical race, her first run competing for the College of Washington, Thomas additionally dipped below her former report, setting a college report of 15:16.93.
Chloe Symon makes stellar NCAA debut
In her NCAA debut, College of Washington freshman Symon put her identify on the map. The Vancouver native, 18, clocked 2:04.56 within the ladies’s 800m, decreasing the 18-year-old Canadian U20 ladies’s indoor report of two:05.41, set by Caitlin Bailey in 2007.
Symon’s earlier private greatest stood at 2:05.27. She’s additionally a two-time NACAC U18 champion, having received gold within the 400m and 4x400m relay on the 2023 championships in San José.
Xavier Perras-Phaneuf takes males’s U23 5000m mark
Additionally contemporary off his runner-up end eventually weekend’s Canadian XC championships, Quebec’s 20-year-old Perras-Phaneuf stored his momentum rolling, clocking 13:33.31 within the males’s 5,000m to interrupt the previous Canadian U23 report of 13:38.45, set by Kearney, Ont.’s Evan Burke in 2023.
Voykin narrowly misses U18 report
An honourable point out goes to 17-year-old 2025 OFSAA senior cross-country champion Eleanor Voykin (Toronto), who ran an excellent 9:29.83 over 3,000m, slicing greater than 20 seconds off her earlier greatest. Her end result fell simply 0.47 seconds in need of the Canadian U18 3,000m report of 9:29.36, set by Canadian legend Emilie Mondor in 1998.
See right here for full outcomes from the BU Sharon Colyear-Danville season opener.
