13 years in the past, at simply 21, Aaron Brown earned his very first journey to the highest of the nationwide podium. On Sunday in Ottawa, now 34, he repeated that feat for the thirteenth time, working in 20.33 seconds to win the lads’s 200m title on the ultimate day of the 2026 Canadian Observe & Subject Championships.
The Father’s Day victory carried further which means for Brown, who known as it particular to rejoice the win with household, together with his spouse, their two youngsters and his mother and father.
The gold marked Brown’s second medal of the weekend after he took silver behind Andre De Grasse in Friday’s 100m closing. “Working in entrance of the Canadian followers by no means will get previous,” he informed Canadian Working.
Eliezer Adjibi improved on final 12 months’s bronze to assert silver in 20.37, additionally securing his second medal of the weekend (he took bronze within the 100m). Brendon Rodney rounded out the rostrum in 20.60.
13 golds over 8 nationwide championships
Brown claimed his first Canadian crown within the 100m on the 2013 championships in Moncton, N.B., the place he ran 10.25.
“That one was particular as a result of it was my first–and also you always remember your first,” he mentioned. “I used to be like just a little child in a sweet retailer after I gained that one.”
He continued to dominate on the nationwide stage, sweeping the 100m and 200m titles in 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022. Now, Brown finds himself cherishing every championship just a little extra. “It’s nearly such as you’re savouring it a bit extra as a result of, once you’re 34, you don’t know what number of extra you’re going to have,” he mentioned.
Brown is slated to symbolize Crew Canada at subsequent month’s Commonwealth Video games in Glasgow. “I really feel like I’m able to do one thing particular, if I can simply execute the way in which I have to.”
Leduc extends undefeated streak
Within the girls’s 200m closing, Gatineau, Que.’s Audrey Leduc pulled off the dash double for the third straight 12 months, cruising easily to the win in a championship document of twenty-two.38 seconds. The victory means she’s gone undefeated in each the Canadian 100m and 200m relationship again to 2024.
Marie-Éloïse Leclair secured the silver medal in 22.87 whereas Alyssa Marsh grabbed bronze in 22.95.
See right here for full outcomes from the 2026 Canadian Observe & Subject Championships.
