Audrey Leduc sets new Canadian women's 100m sprint record, achieves Paris Olympic standard

Audrey Leduc ran to a second-place finish in 10.96 seconds outdoors at the LSU Alumni Gold meet on Saturday, achieving the Paris Olympic standard and becoming the fastest Canadian women's 100-metre sprinter.Sprinter Audrey Leduc's performance Saturday in a legal wind broke the Canadian women's 100-metre mark of 10.98 by the late Angela Bailey from July 6, 1987 at the Budapest Grand Prix in Hungary.

Bailey, who also captured a women's Olympic relay silver medal in 1984, died of lung cancer last July 31 at age 59.Audrey Leduc of Gatineau, Que., stopped the clock at 10.96 seconds at a race in Baton Rouge, La., on Saturday, April 20, eclipsing the Canadian women's 100-metre record set by Angela Bailey in 1987.

She performed well indoors earlier this year, running a 7.21-second PB in the women's 60m semifinals at the World Athletics Indoor Championships but didn't qualify among the top eight for the final, placing 18th in Glasgow.Leduc had gone 7.22 earlier in the day in her heat a week after a 7.25 clocking at an event hosted by Laval University, where the five-foot-seven athlete is a business student.

They finished the 42.2-kilometre competition in three hours seven minutes 10 seconds for a national record, according to Athletics Canada.

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