Canada’s Lenore Montgomery mauls W85 world record in 800

Lenore reaches finish line at a 2013 meet in

Lenore finishes 1500 at a 2013 meet in Regina.

Lenore Montgomery has been a Canadian middle-distance star for years, and she added to her legend over the weekend with a W85 world record at 800, clocking 4:39.14. She smashed the listed WR of 4:56.10 by Ukraine’s Vladylena Kokina in 2012 as well as a never-ratified 4:44.68 by Australia’s Margaret Prowse in 2009. On the Age-Graded Tables, her time is worth a 1:59.92. The marvelous mark came at the Trevor Craven Memorial Meet on July 4–5, 2015, in Burnaby, British Columbia. Lenore, with the Greyhounds Track Club coached by Harold Morioka, also broke the Canadian 1500 record with a time of 9:09.92. (The old record was 10:33.40.) Meet results are here.