Get to know Team Canada: John Gay - Canadian Runng Magaze

Contents:

• JOHN GAY
• JOHN GAY TAKG HOME SEASON STRI, WH EXPERIENCE OM OLYMPICS AND UBC
• TSUMURA: UBC STEEPLECHASER JOHN GAY ON THE GOLD STANDARD OF A RACE THAT ALMOST DIDN’T UNT
• 10 FUN QUTNS WH UBC’S JOHN GAY
• GET TO KNOW TEAM CANADA: JOHN GAY
• JOHN GAY UBC MM APPLITN
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• GAY
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS FORT ST JOHN, BC

JOHN GAY

John Gay earned the Olympic entry standard for Tokyo 2020 when he ran a personal bt 8:20.

JOHN GAY TAKG HOME SEASON STRI, WH EXPERIENCE OM OLYMPICS AND UBC

Gay had won a pair of medals at the 2015 Canadian Junr Champnships, takg silver the 3000m steeplechase and bronze the 5000m. In 2017 Gay reprented Canada his first senr ternatnal event, jt missg the 3000m steeplechase podium at the Jx la Franphonie.

TSUMURA: UBC STEEPLECHASER JOHN GAY ON THE GOLD STANDARD OF A RACE THAT ALMOST DIDN’T UNT

In 2019, Gay raced the World Cross Country Champnships. Gay raced llegiately for the Universy of Brish Columbia.

10 FUN QUTNS WH UBC’S JOHN GAY

LANGLEY, BC – John Gay remembers the track at McLeod Athletic Park — he raced on high school. Gay, 25, isn’t near done wh his reer but is already a veteran Canadian athletics, specifilly the 3, 000m and 3, 500-metre steeplechase, an event he’s claimed as his own. Returng to the park where he once raced high school, the 2022 Canadian Track and Field Champnships are special for Gay, even as they fall amid one of the bit summers of his reer.

In universy, Gay ran wh the UBC Thunrbirds of the NAIA. John Gay wh UBC (UBC Athletics).

GET TO KNOW TEAM CANADA: JOHN GAY

“In some ways, I thk I stumbled to a suatn that turned out really good for me, gog to UBC, ” Gay told 49 Sports ahead of his Natnal Champnship event. Wh the weather on his si, and a program led by Chris Johnson, a faiar ach to Gay, UBC beme the statn, and the school has flicted his reer far beyond the nf of the Rasphall Dhillon Track and Field Oval. Gay didn’t get any other llegiate offers, beg an unr-reced kid om Kelowna.

JOHN GAY UBC MM APPLITN

Gay fished 10th the 3000m steeplechase at the 2017 FISU Universy Gam Taiwan. His ach, Johnson, a lol cross untry and track ach, was steppg back om his role at UBC at the same time that Gay left the school.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

Outsi of a few pennt achg mments, Johnson helped a select group of athlet, cludg Gay, reachg the Olympic level.

John Gay his race pack at Tokyo 2020 (IOC). “He has a small group of athlet that I was a part of, and we didn’t change a lot after I graduated, ” Gay said.

GAY

Wh his improvements streamled a faiar trag atmosphere after he left universy, the petns have only gotten bigger for Gay.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS FORT ST JOHN, BC

“An Olympic year always gments the emotns and the anxiety around racg chasg tim, and that was pecially te durg a panmic when travel is so rtricted, ” Gay said, more relaxed than he was at this time last year. McLeod Athletic Park is a faiar track for Gay, havg acquated himself wh the facily racg provcial champnships high school.