Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Canadian workforce introduced for 2026 World XC Championships

On Tuesday, Athletics Canada unveiled the 28 athletes who will signify the nation on the 2026 World Cross-Nation Championships. Choice was primarily based on outcomes from the 2025 Canadian Cross-Nation Championships (ACXC) in London, Ont., the place, over the weekend, the nation’s greatest fought for prestigious nationwide crowns and a spot on Crew Canada.

The World Championships race is ready for Jan. 10 at Tallahassee, Fla.’s Apalachee Regional Park, returning to the U.S. for the primary time in additional than three a long time. The final version of the occasion passed off in Bathurst, Australia, in 2023.

To be eligible for choice, Canadian athletes will need to have completed inside the highest 10 of their respective divisions at ACXC, with Athletics Canada naming as much as six runners per workforce.

Main the best way for Canada are senior 10K champions Ceili McCabe and Moh Ahmed. On Saturday, McCabe claimed her second nationwide XC title in three years with a dominant wire-to-wire win. She stopped the clock at 32:57 to win by almost a minute. Ahmed, making his first look at Canadian XC nationals in 13 yearscaptured his first-ever senior XC crown.

Ceili McCabe successful ACXC 2025. Picture: Graham Baird Images

Ladies’s open 10K

Ceili McCabe (Vancouver)
Chloe Thomas (Dundas, Ont.)
Florence Caron (La Malbaie, Que.)
Grace Fetherstonhaugh (New Westminster, B.C.)
Makenna Fitzgerald (Kamloops, B.C.)
Glynis Sim (Salmon Arm, B.C.)

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Moh Ahmed in males’s 10K at ACXC 2025. Picture: Graham Baird Images

Males’s open 10K

Moh Ahmed (St. Catharines, Ont.)
Xavier Perras-Phaneuf (LaSalle, Que.)
Santiago Gaitan (Welland, Ont.)
Matt Talbot (Ailsa Craig, Ont.)
Evan Burke (Kearney, Ont.)
Philippe Morneau-Cartier (La Pocatière, Que.)

8K combined relay

Foster Malleck (Kitchener, Ont.)
Jean-Simon Desgagnés (Saint-Ferréol-Les-Neiges, Que.)
Kate Present (Cobourg, Ont.)
Regan Yee (Vancouver)

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Adrianna Buitelaar successful the U20 girls’s title at ACXC 2025 Picture: Graham Baird Images

Ladies’s U20 6K

Adrianna Buitelaar (Abbotsford, B.C.)
Kayley Torrie (Cochrane, Alta.)
Eleanor Voykin (Toronto)
Zoe Mosher (Pleasantville, N.S.)
Athena Andrecyk (Kingston, Ont.)
Riley Innes (Newmarket, Ont.)

Males’s U20 6K

Chase Capes (Sarnia, Ont.)
Brody Clark (Milton, Ont.)
William Scharf (Toronto)
Oliver Crowe (St. Catharines, Ont.)
Saul Speaks (Ottawa)
That’s Torrie (Cochrane, Alta.)

See right here for the total workforce announcement.


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