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LIVE - IAAF World Half Marathon Champs

LIVE - IAAF World Half Marathon Champs

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Watch the IAAF World Half Marathon Champs on ACtv

Checkout the 2016 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Cardiff, Wales on Saturday March 26 - the event will be streamed live on AthleticsCanada.tv.

  • Women’s race start time
    9:35 a.m. ET / 13:35 local
  • Men’s race start time
    10:10 a.m. ET / 14:10

The qualifying deadline was March 7th, 2016; 10 women and 11 men met the qualification standard of 1:16:00 and 1:06:00 respectively (see full list of athletes HERE). The top three declared and available athletes were selected for the team - Athletics Canada named six athletes that will represent Canada at Championships:

2016 IAAF World Championships team
Name, hometown, coach, club, affiliation, qualifying time

Men

  1. Reid Coolsaet, Guelph, ON, Dave Scott-Thomas Speed River ON 1:03:37 **2012 marathon Olympian
  2. Robin Watson, London,ON, Pete Watson Unattached BC 1:03:58 **2013 World Championships team member
  3. Brandon Lord, Sudbury, ON, Pete Watson Unattached BC 1:04:03

Women

  1. Lanni Marchant, London, ON, Dave Mills London Western ON 1:12:05 **Canadian women’s Marathon record holder
  2. Laura Batterink, Port Perry, ON, John Lofranco McGill Olympic QC 1:13:13
  3. Tarah Korir, St. Clements, ON, Ron Mann Unattached Ontario ON 1:13:39

The IAAF Half Marathon Championships team is funded in partnership with Athletics Canada’s national 10km (Ottawa Race Weekend), Half Marathon (Calgary Marathon) and Marathon (Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon) road Championships in Ottawa, Calgary and Toronto respectively.

- See more at: http://athletics.ca/watch-iaaf-world-half-marathon-champs-on-actv/#sthash.gf3irJxX.dpuf

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