On Wednesday, Athletics Canada introduced the athletes who will signify Group Canada on the 2026 Commonwealth Video games in Glasgow, Scotland. The Video games run from July 23 to Aug. 2 and can characteristic a lot of Canada’s finest monitor and discipline athletes. The staff consists of 13 Commonwealth Video games veterans and 25 Olympians, with a mixed 21 Olympic medals and eight Commonwealth Video games medals.
Headlined by 2021 Olympic Champion Andre De Grasse, 5,000m and 10,000m nationwide report holder Moh Ahmed and 100m and 200m Canadian report holder Audrey Leduc, this might be a must-see occasion for Canadian monitor followers.
Ten sports activities and 6 para-sports might be contested in Glasgow. The Video games stay the one multi-sport occasion that options equal standing for sport and para-sport competitors. Which means no matter whether or not a medal is gained in sport or para-sport, it contributes to a nation’s tally. This 12 months will characteristic the reintroduction of the mile race, as a substitute of the 1,500m, for the primary time since 1966.
Relay squads
Canada’s 4x100m relay groups proceed to rank among the many quickest on the worldwide circuit. Now they’re making the journey to Glasgow subsequent month in pursuit of a medal. Each relay swimming pools embrace alternates; the ultimate lineups might be decided nearer to the competitors.
The ladies’s staff options Olympian Leduc of Gatineau, Que, alongside longtime teammates Sadé McCreath of Ajax, Ont., and Marie-Éloïse Leclair of Candiac, Que. The three sprinters had been members of the staff that certified for the 2027 World Championships in Could. Becoming a member of them are Québec Metropolis’s Frédérique Chiasson and Gabrielle Cole of Ajax.
The lads’s staff can also be bringing a few of Canada’s finest sprinters: Olympians Andre De Grasse, Brendon Rodney, Jerome Blake and Duan Asemota. Becoming a member of them is Ontario’s rising star Eliezer Adjibi, who gained silver within the 200m and bronze within the 100m on the 2026 Canadian Monitor & Area Championships in Ottawa on the weekend of June 20.
“Having all these guys, we’re contenders,” De Grasse mentioned in a press launch. “We’re gold medal contenders. So, I’m wanting ahead to that.”
Nationwide champs showing
After securing his second straight Canadian 5,000m title, Vancouver’s Kieran Lumb will contest the lads’s 5,000m on the Commonwealth Video games and might be amongst Canada’s strongest medal contenders.
Recent off her nationwide championship, Westminster, B.C.’s Grace Fetherstonhaugh will compete at her first Commonwealth Video games within the ladies’s 3,000m steeplechase as she chases the elusive sub 9:30 mark whereas pursuing a podium end.
in Tokyo. Picture: Kevin Morris
The mile is being run on the Video games for the primary time in many years, and Kitchener, Ont.’s Foster Malleck might be amongst Canada’s high medal contenders. He’ll enter the Video games in robust kind after claiming the nationwide 1,500m title on Sunday.
Canada’s medal hopes additionally sit with Christopher Morales Williams, the reigning world indoor 400m champion. The Vaughan, Ont., sprinter dominated the 400m at nationwide championships on Friday and enters the Video games as one of many favourites within the occasion.
The vets
Ahmed of St. Catharines, Ont., will compete within the males’s 5,000m alongside Lumb. The 35-year-old brings veteran management to the staff and stays a risk on the worldwide stage regardless of a quiet begin to his 2026 marketing campaign.
The Stafford sisters are every bringing expertise and medal hopes to the Video games. Gabriela DeBues-Stafford is a drive in Canadian monitor and accomplished the three-peat within the ladies’s 5,000m on the nationwide championships. The Toronto distance star might be searching for a medal within the ladies’s 5,000m in Glasgow. Her sister, Lucia Stafford, claimed the nationwide 1,500m title on Sunday and set a large 1,500m PB in Could; again in high kind, she might be searching for a podium end alongside her sister.
