{"id":903224,"date":"2026-09-20T19:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/903224\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T19:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:36:11","slug":"canadas-jadyn-keeler-crushes-national-half-marathon-record-in-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/903224\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s Jadyn Keeler crushes national half-marathon record in Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barrie, Ont.\u2019s Jadyn Keeler<\/a> set a Canadian half-marathon record at the World Athletics Road Running Championships in Copenhagen on Sunday morning, running a huge personal best of 1:08:03. The 23-year-old finished 16th in a deep women\u2019s race, breaking Andrea Seccafien\u2019s previous national record of 1:09:38, set in 2020 at Japan\u2019s Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon, by one minute and 35 seconds.<\/p>\n

Kenya\u2019s Agnes Ngetich won the race in 1:05:15, setting a world record for a women-only half marathon by one second; she finished 50 seconds ahead of compatriot Veronica Loleo, who took silver in 1:06:05; Rwanda\u2019s Florence Niyonkuru captured bronze in 1:06:08.<\/p>\n

Keeler\u2019s half-marathon debut was only five weeks ago at the Canadian championships in Edmonton. She won that race in 1:12:12 despite a course-measuring error<\/a> that meant athletes ran an additional 700 metres. Her 1:08:03 on Sunday was more than four minutes faster.<\/p>\n

Quebec\u2019s Florence Caron was Canada\u2019s next finisher, taking 42nd in a personal-best 1:11:03, while \u00c9lissa Legault followed in 45th in a PB of 1:11:15. Their times, combined with Keeler\u2019s, meant Canada placed seventh in the women\u2019s team standings. In the half-marathon team competition, each country\u2019s three fastest runners are used for the final placing.<\/p>\n

On the men\u2019s side, national half-marathon record holder Rory Linkletter<\/a> was the top Canadian, finishing\u00a021st in 1:01:09. B.C.\u2019s Cam Levins was 35th in 1:01:49, followed by Ontario\u2019s Andrew Alexander in 41st in 1:01:55.<\/p>\n

Keeler\u2019s record-setting results<\/p>\n

Keeler is no stranger to Canadian records or strong debuts. She owns the U23 indoor 5,000m record of 15:14.76, which also ranks as No. 4 on the Canadian indoor all-time list. She also holds the\u00a0U23 record in the 10,000m<\/a>, running 32:06.70 in her debut at the distance and following up with a 31:56.03 PB in the event in April, a No. 7 all-time Canadian finish.<\/p>\n

Post-run in Copenhagen, Keeler told Canadian marathon record-holder Natasha Wodak that the race had an incredible atmosphere and was fun to be a part of. \u201cFor me it was my first senior national team experience,\u201d she said. \u201cHad a great race out there.\u201d She added that while she was just over the 68-minute mark, she\u2019ll \u201cget it next time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other Canadian standout performances<\/p>\n

Keeler\u2019s record came after several Canadian personal bests during Saturday\u2019s mile and 5K races. Lucia Stafford<\/a> ran to eighth in the women\u2019s road mile in a PB of 4:29.51, with older sister Gabriela DeBues-Stafford finishing ninth in a PB of 4:30.59.\u00a0On the men\u2019s side, Foster Malleck<\/a> finished 13th in a PB of 3:56.55, while Max Davies ran a PB of 4:08.56.<\/p>\n

Canada also had two PBs in the men\u2019s 5K. Evan Burke finished 39th in 13:49 and Matthew Beaudet was 44th in 13:58.<\/p>\n

For full results of the 2026 World Athletics Road Running Championships, head here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barrie, Ont.\u2019s Jadyn Keeler set a Canadian half-marathon record at the World Athletics Road Running Championships in Copenhagen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,312379,312380,312381,60,128586,312382,270532,44,312383],"class_list":["post-903224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-road-runners","tag-canadian-womens-half-marathon-record","tag-copenhagen-half-marathon","tag-featured","tag-gabriela-debues-stafford","tag-jadyn-keeler","tag-lucia-stafford","tag-news","tag-women-only-half-marathon-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}