Gabby Thomas 300m school record had stood for seven years but has now been broken by the fast-rising Canadian sprinter.
Fast-rising sprint sensation Izzy Goudros etched herself into the folklore of the Harvard University program record after she broke Gabby Thomas‘ 300m record on January 18.
Toronto’s Izzy Goudros, who has been tipped for greatness, surpassed the previous record of 37.47 seconds set by Olympic 200m champion Gabby Thomas during her final collegiate indoor season, in 2017-2018.
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The Canadian won the women’s 300m with a personal best time of 37.34 seconds, which currently stands as the sixth-fastest time in the NCAA this season. Her time was just 10 one-hundredths of a second shy of Angela Bailey’s Canadian U23 record in the event, which has stood for 41 years.
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Even though her strongest interests have always been the short sprints, Goudros spent the last three years competing as a heptathlete at Harvard. Last year, at the NCAA Track and Field Championships, she finished 18th in the women’s heptathlon, with a cumulative score of 5,609 points.
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Goudros isn’t the only Canadian sprinter making noise in the NCAA this season. Dual citizen Alexia Schofield of Arizona State University holds the fourth-fastest women’s 300m time in the NCAA, so far, sprinting to a time of 37.03 seconds in College Station, Texas, two weeks ago.
The Canadian record for the distance is 36.94 seconds; it was set by two-time Canadian Olympian Kyra Constantine in 2022.
