Canada’s mixed team of 100-metre sprinters will not join its men’s and women’s counterparts at the World Athletics Championships in September but was the lone foursome to claim victory on the final day at the World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, China.
Sade McCreath, Marie-Eloise Leclair, Duan Asemota and Eliezer Adjibi prevailed in a season-best 40.30 seconds over Jamaica on Sunday at Guangdong Olympic Stadium. However, they won’t be competing at the Sept. 13-21 athletics worlds in Tokyo as the event will not be contested there.
After going 40.90 in the event’s debut on Saturday in China to book a spot in the final, they shaved over a half-second off that performance on Sunday to hold off the Jamaicans (40.44) and Great Britain (40.88). It was the best effort of 2025 for all three squads.
WATCH | Canada achieves season-best time in mixed 4x100m final:
Canada’s mixed 4x100m team of Sade McCreath, Marie-Éloïse Leclair, Duan Asemoto and Eliezer Adjibi capture gold Sunday at the 2025 World Athletics Relay Championships in Guangzhou, China in a season’s best time of 40.30.
Canada’s 4×100 team, the reigning Olympic champions, lost precious time when the exchange between starter Aaron Brown and Jerome Blake wasn’t clean.
Undeterred, Blake, Brendon Rodney and anchor Andre De Grasse persevered and reached the medal podium, earning bronze behind South Africa and the United States.
The Canadian foursome that won Olympic gold last summer in Paris with a 37.50 clocking went 38.11 on Sunday. They ran 37.89 a year ago to capture world relay silver in Nassau, Bahamas.
WATCH | Canadians reach men’s 100m relay podium with bronze:
Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, Brendon Rodney and Andre De Grasse raced to a bronze medal time of 38.11 Sunday at the World Athletics Relay Championships in Guangzhou, China.
Canada was second in its heat on Saturday to qualify for Sunday’s final but more importantly secure a spot at the world championships.
The automatic qualification was in doubt until De Grasse lifted his team in the anchor leg. The Markham, Ont., native held off Australia and the Netherlands to cross the line in 38.15 behind Japan (37.84).
Canada’s 4×400 mixed team of Austin Cole, Lauren Gale, Nathan George and Zoe Sherar will compete at worlds after taking nearly 10 seconds off their season best from Saturday and stopping the clock in three minutes 12.95 seconds in the second round of qualifying on Sunday.
WATCH | Canada books spot at world championships in mixed 4x400m:
Canada’s Austin Cole, Lauren Gale, Nathan George and Zoe Sherar ran to a third place heat finish with a time of 3:12.95 Sunday at the 2025 World Athletics Relay Championships in Guangzhou, China.
They needed a top-three finish to advance and placed third, holding off India by almost two seconds (3:14.81) in the second of two heats.
Cole, Gale, George and Sherar were the last of six teams in the third and final heat on Saturday in 3:22.37.
The Canadian women’s 4×100 team of Jacqueline Madogo, Audrey Leduc, McCreath and Leclair was fifth in Sunday’s final in a national record 42.46.
Canada was in fourth in its Saturday heat when Leduc took the baton and powered past the Italian and Dutch runners to secure a second-place finish (43.11) and clinch a berth at worlds.
WATCH | Canadian women set national record in 4x100m:
42.46 is the new women’s 4×100-metre relay Canadian record time set by Sade McCreath, Jacqueline Madogo, Marie-Éloïse Leclair and Audrey Leduc Sunday at the World Athletics Relay Championships in Guangzhou, China.
The Canadians struggled at the outset of the women’s 4×400 final and struggled to make up ground, crossing the finish line seventh in the eight-team field.
But they, too, booked a spot at worlds on Saturday and followed up with a 3:27.84 effort.
Lead runner Micha Powell replaced Jasneet Nijjar on Sunday, joining Madeline Price, Sherar and Gale.
Canada was fourth in Saturday’s heat (3:37.28) to advance to the final.
WATCH | Worlds-bound Canadian women 7th in 4x400m final:
Finishing with a time of 3:27.84, Canada’s women’s 4×400-metre relay team placed seventh Sunday at World Athletics Relay Championships in Guangzhou, China.
Canada’s World Athletics Relays roster
| Athlete | Event(s) | Hometown |
| Aaron Brown | Men’s 4x100m, Mixed 4x100m | Toronto |
| Andre De Grasse | Men’s 4x100m, Mixed 4x100m | Markham, Ont. |
| Brendon Rodney | Men’s 4x100m, Mixed 4x100m | Etobicoke, Ont. |
| Duan Asemota | Men’s 4x100m, Mixed 4x100m | Ajax, Ont. |
| Eliezer Adjibi | Men’s 4x100m, Mixed 4x100m | Ottawa |
| Jerome Blake | Men’s 4x100m, Mixed 4x100m | Kelowna, B.C. |
| Malachi Murray | Men’s 4x100m, Mixed 4x100m | Edmonton |
| Norris Spike | Men’s 4x100m, Mixed 4x100m | Brampton, Ont. |
| Audrey Leduc | Women’s 4x100m, Mixed 4x100m | Laval, Que. |
| Catherine Leger | Women’s 4x100m, Mixed 4x100m | Montreal |
| Donna Ntambue | Women’s 4x100m, Mixed 4x100m | Montreal |
| Gabrielle Cole | Women’s 4x100m, Mixed 4x100m | Ajax, Ont. |
| Jacqueline Madogo | Women’s 4x100m, Mixed 4x100m | Guelph, Ont. |
| Marie-Éloïse Leclair | Women’s 4x100m, Mixed 4x100m | Candiac, Que. |
| Sade McCreath | Women’s 4x100m, Mixed 4x100m | Ajax, Ont. |
| Austin Cole | Mixed 4x400m | Sherwood Park, Alta. |
| Christopher Morales Williams | Mixed 4x400m | Maple, Ont. |
| Nathan George | Mixed 4x400m | Vancouver |
| Alyssa Marsh | Women’s 4x400m, Mixed 4x400m | Whitby, Ont. |
| Dianna Proctor | Women’s 4x400m, Mixed 4x400m | Edmonton |
| Jasneet Nijjar | Women’s 4x400m, Mixed 4x400m | Surrey, B.C. |
| Kyra Constantine | Women’s 4x400m, Mixed 4x400m | Brampton, Ont. |
| Lauren Gale | Women’s 4x400m, Mixed 4x400m | Ottawa |
| Madeline Price | Women’s 4x400m, Mixed 4x400m | Toronto |
| Micha Powell | Women’s 4x400m, Mixed 4x400m | Montreal |
| Zoe Sherar | Women’s 4x400m, Mixed 4x400m | Toronto |
| Ramone English* | Men’s 4x100m | Edmonton |
*Reserve