Fredrick Canon

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Fredrick Canon (born July 15, 1976 ) is a Nauruan athlete . He specializes in short distances (100 m, 200 m, 400 m).

Career

Canon was the only Nauruan sprinter to take part in the 4th World Athletics Championships in 1993 in Stuttgart. There he was eliminated, running barefoot, in the first 100-meter run with a time of 11.72 s.

Canon holds the Nauruan record for 100 m (10.99 s), which it set on March 3, 1996 in Canberra ; Unofficially, he ran the 100 meters in Meneng in 2000 in 10.8 seconds. Over 200 m he holds the national record in 22.84 s, set on August 7, 1998 in Koror ; an unofficial hand-timed time of 21.7 s dated January 31, 1994, located in Meneng. Over the 400 m distance there is no official data from Canon apart from a hand-timed time of 53.2 s, dated May 17, 1996 in Meneng.

Canon participated in the 1998 Commonwealth Games . At the Oceanic Athletics Championships in 1998 in Nuku'alofa , he reached seventh place over 100 m. In 2002 Canon was named co-vice president of the Nauruan Athletics Federation.

In 2005 he won the bronze medal in the 4 × 100m relay at the Micronesian Athletics Championships in Saipan with Quaski Itaia , JJ Capelle and Rikko Thoma .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike Rowbottom: Athleics: Cason steals Christie's thunder. In: The Independent August 15, 1993, accessed March 20, 2014.
  2. ↑ 14 Medals for Nauru in MAC foxsportspulse.com, accessed on March 20, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Canon, Fredrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nauruan athlete
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1976