Christopher Morales Williams, an up-and-coming sprinter from Toronto, made headlines by breaking the Canadian indoor 300m file on the Clemson Invite in South Carolina on Jan. 13. Morales Williams clocked a speedy 32.47 seconds, breaking the earlier file by six one-hundredths of a second.
Morales Williams’s time broke the earlier Canadian file of 32.53, set by former World Championship bronze medallist Tyler Christopher in 2008. Morales Williams was three years outdated when Christopher set the file.
To place his file in perspective Morales Williams averaged a ridiculous 10.8 seconds per 100m and a median velocity of virtually 35 km/hr. He additionally edged U.S. dash star Matthew Boling, putting second within the race.Â
Morales Williams, 19, is in his second yr on the College of Georgia on a monitor and area scholarship. Final yr he received his first Canadian senior championship within the 400m, marking his presence as one of many nation’s high younger skills in athletics.
Workforce Canada has not despatched any athletes within the males’s 400m to the previous two Olympic Video games. Morales Williams, who’s at the moment ranked as one of many high 400m skills within the NCAA, has the chance to turn out to be the primary man to characterize Canada at an Olympic Video games since Daundre Barnaby on the London Olympics in 2012. Barnaby disappeared whereas swimming within the ocean in St. Kitts and Nevis on an Athletics Canada coaching camp in 2015. He was 24.
Morales Williams has a private better of 45.48 seconds, which was set within the 400m ultimate on the 2023 Canadian Observe and Subject Championships. The mark he would want to punch his ticket to Paris could be 45.00 seconds or sooner.
