On Wednesday, Athletics Canada introduced the athletes who will symbolize Group Canada on the 2026 Commonwealth Video games in Glasgow, Scotland. The Video games run from July 23 to Aug. 2 and can function a lot of Canada’s finest observe and subject 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 file holder Moh Ahmed and 100m and 200m Canadian file holder Audrey Leduc, this shall be a must-see occasion for Canadian observe followers.
Ten sports activities and 6 para-sports shall be contested in Glasgow. The Video games stay the one multi-sport occasion that options equal standing for sport and para-sport competitors. Meaning no matter whether or not a medal is received in sport or para-sport, it contributes to a nation’s tally. This 12 months will function the reintroduction of the mile race, as an alternative 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 shall 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 have been members of the staff that certified for the 2027 World Championships in Might. Becoming a member of them are Québec Metropolis’s Frédérique Chiasson and Gabrielle Cole of Ajax.
The lads’s staff can 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 received silver within the 200m and bronze within the 100m on the 2026 Canadian Observe & Subject 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 shall 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. Photograph: Kevin Morris
The mile is being run on the Video games for the primary time in a long time, and Kitchener, Ont.’s Foster Malleck shall be amongst Canada’s high medal contenders. He’ll enter the Video games in sturdy 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 pressure in Canadian observe and accomplished the three-peat within the ladies’s 5,000m on the nationwide championships. The Toronto distance star shall 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 an enormous 1,500m PB in Might; again in high kind, she shall be searching for a podium end alongside her sister.