![]() ![]() Murray’s more immediate goals include earning a spot on the Canadian team for the World Championships in Athletics in Budapest, Hungary, in August. The other men to break the 10-second barrier for Canada are Donovan Bailey and Ben Johnson, both born in Jamaica, as well as Haitian-born Bruny Surin. ![]() That’s been my goal.”īoth de Grasse and Brown are Canadian-born sprinters who have dipped under 10 seconds, but they train full time in the U.S. I wanted to be born in Canada, train in Canada and drop nine seconds, because I don’t think that’s been done before. “In my thought process, I had something that was working for me here. By the time that happened, he had decided to follow through on a personal challenge. He had discussions with some NCAA schools, but was running 10.6 at the time and said the schools would be more interested when he lowered that to 10.4. He won the provincial high school 100-metre title in his last two years while at St. But by Grade 11 he had joined an Edmonton track club and the shift in gears showed. Murray was still more interested in soccer a year later when he again finished second at the city meet. ![]() Without formal training, Murray burst onto the local sprint scene in Grade 9 when he finished second in the Edmonton city championships, behind soccer phenom Alphonso Davies. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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