On the 2024 Ontario Federation of College Athletic Associations (OFSAA) Monitor and Box Championships, 17-year-old dash phenom Will Batley of Carp, Ont., broke a provincial highschool report that had stood for 40 years, within the senior boys 200m. Batley ran 20.95 seconds (+1.2 m/s) within the ultimate on Saturday afternoon in London, Ont., breaking the OFSAA and Canadian highschool report.
Congratulations to Will Batley, the 2024 Senior Boys 200 Meter champion and New CANADIAN INTERSCHOLASTIC RECORD HOLDER! #2024track #LETSGO #ofsaalondon #ofsaatrack %.twitter.com/OixoLoQp8Z
— OFSAA Monitor & Box (@OFSAATrack) June 8, 2024
The Grade 11 scholar at West Carleton Prime College bettered the former provincial interscholastic report by way of one hundredth of a moment. Atlee Mahorn set the report in 1984, and all over his occupation, he was once a three-time Olympic sprinter for Canada. Mahorn held the senior 200m nationwide report till Aaron Brown broke it in 2014. That report is now held by way of Olympic 200m champion Andre De Grasse (19.62).
Batley, who grew up taking part in football, didn’t soak up sprinting till highschool. He received the lads’s 100m and 200m at OFSAA closing yr within the junior boy’s department (for Grade 10 scholars). The step as much as compete towards senior scholars posed no downside for Batley, as he received OFSAA gold by way of two-tenths of a moment. He additionally ran within the senior boys 100m, completing moment to Isaac Chandra of Kenner Collegiate in Peterborough, Ont., in 10.35 seconds.
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We all know Will Batley received the 200m race environment a Cdn report, however he additionally completed 2d within the 100m, lacking out on gold by way of .002 seconds!#PhotoFinish %.twitter.com/xyusD3WnvY
— West Carleton SS (@WestCarletonSS) June 8, 2024
Batley was once certainly one of 4 athletes to set a Canadian highschool report over the weekend in London. Further data have been set by way of Asia Phillips of Toronto within the senior ladies triple leap (13.48 metres), Julia Tunks of London, Ont., within the senior ladies discus throw (56.35 metres), and Alexis Asselin within the para-ambulatory 800m (2:23.65).
This was once Batley’s first sub-21-second clocking within the males’s 200m match. Remaining summer season, he represented Crew Canada for the primary time on the 2023 NACAC U18 Championships in Costa Rica, the place he completed 7th within the 200m ultimate. His 2024 OFSAA-winning time was once best two-one hundredths of a moment off the Canadian U18 report of 20.93 (+1.6 m/s), set in 1982 by way of Courtney Brown.
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