Two Canadians put contemporary ink on the nationwide document books over the weekend, with Ontario’s Foster Malleck and Nicole McKenzie laying down performances that reset Canadian indoor requirements throughout a number of distances.
On the ladies’s aspect, McKenzie lowered the Canadian indoor 600m document with a 1:26.95, taking down the earlier mark of 1:27.05 (set by Aurora Rynda). The 23-year-old runs for the College of Guelph Gryphons and was named U Sports activities monitor Athlete of the Week simply two weeks in the past, after opening her 2026 season on Jan. 10 with a 600m debut in 1:28.11. That efficiency set a meet document, facility document and Guelph program document, whereas additionally tying McKenzie for seventh on the Canadian all-time indoor 600m record, and making her one in all simply two 600m ladies who’ve auto-qualified for the U Sports activities Championships.
Malleck added his identify, once more, to the Canadian document books this weekend, operating 3:51.39 indoors to set a brand new nationwide mile document on the BU Terrier Traditional in Boston. The efficiency took down the earlier Canadian indoor mark of three:52.39, set by Kieran Lumb in 2025. Malleck completed fourth in a loaded race received by 16-year-old Sam Ruth in 3:48.88.
Malleck’s time shaved roughly a second off Lumb’s document and capped a standout week indoors. Simply days earlier on the 2026 New Steadiness Indoor Grand Prix, the Kitchener, Ont.–native ran 4:54.08 for two,000 metres indoors, the quickest time ever by a Canadian on the distance. Lumb broke the earlier Canadian indoor finest, held by Cam Levinof 4:55.35–a mark that had stood since 2014. Malleck says his two greatest targets for the 2026 season are to qualify for the Commonwealth Video games and take down Kevin Sullivan’s nationwide 1,500m document of three:31.71, which has stood for 26 years.
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