John Gay earned the Olympic entry standard for Tokyo 2020 when he ran a personal bt 8:20.68 at the Canadian Olympic Trials jt days before the qualifitn perd closed at the end of June 2021.
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- GET TO KNOW TEAM CANADA: JOHN GAY
- WORLD CHAMPNSHIP NNER JOHN GAY RAIS FUNDS FOR INDIA CHILDREN’S CHARY
- UBC CROSS-UNTRY NNER JOHN GAY TURNS OM APPRENTICE TO LEAR
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John Gay is g off the year of his life and startg 2020 wh the Pan Am Cup Febary * john gay runner *
John Gay. John Gay’s Olympic dream was born the summer of 2016.
He spent the summer trag wh Canadian Olympic steeplechaser Chris Wter and “up until that pot, seemed so distant but gettg to know Chris, and others who would later reprent Canada that summer, had a humanizg effect for me, ” said Gay. Te to his word, Gay put the work and five years later he’s ready to reprent Canada on the world’s biggt stage. Gay spent months racg the U.
As a last-dch effort, Gay jumped on a plane and head to Swen the fal weekend of June. Gay ran seven solo laps at Montreal’s Cl Robillard Sports Complex for an 8:20. “It was kd of the storybook endg to this long chase of a season, ” said Gay followg the race.
GET TO KNOW TEAM CANADA: JOHN GAY
Gay's fundraiser for the nonprof Child of Me is live until December 1 * john gay runner *
Up until that night Montreal, Gay’s 2019 season had been his bt to date. After nng cross untry high school, Gay moved om Kelowna to Vanuver for universy and ran as a Universy of Brish Columbia Thunrbird.
One of the youngt athlet on the Canadian athletics team, Gay is nfint that he’s ready to pete wh the world’s bt steeplechasers Tokyo. John Gay is g off the season of his life.
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WORLD CHAMPNSHIP NNER JOHN GAY RAIS FUNDS FOR INDIA CHILDREN’S CHARY
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Gay moved om Kelowna to Vanuver for universy and ran as a UBC Thunrbird for five years.
Gay’s time as a universy athlete provid some of his fonst memori the sport: “My favoure cross-untry memory was 2017, when the UBC men’s program won s first natnal NAIA tle. Gay went on to race one more year wh the team at the U Sports champnship 2018, the school’s first year the league. This past 12 months brought big posive change for Gay.
What Gay’s referrg to is the transn om universy to post-llegiate athletics. Gay was that tegory.
UBC CROSS-UNTRY NNER JOHN GAY TURNS OM APPRENTICE TO LEAR
Gay explas the feelg of transng om beg a stunt-athlete to a nner. Three days before the 2019 Natnal Cross-Country Champnships, Gay learned that he’d received natnal rdg for the first time.
Gay’s exced to race at home this Febary and ntue his succs to the rt of the year, “I was the nversatn 2019 and now I want to stay the nversatn for 2020. John Gay, 24, is one of the untry’s top nners, havg reprented Canada at the World Cross Country Champnships Denmark and World Athletics Champnships Doha 2019.
Gay is currently the fal week of a fundraiser for Child of Me and the hom, and is open for donatns until December 1.
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“My fay has been volved wh Child of Me for the last 11 or 12 years, ” Gay says. In 2011, his fay travelled to North India, and durg their stay, Gay’s father “fell love” wh supportg the hom and children there.
RELATED: Get to know Team Canada: John Gay. Gay says his father travels to India for a month almost every year, and October 2019, Gay joed him.