Gabrielle Cole
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| Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 November 2004 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | 60m: 7.20 (2026) 100m: 11.38 (2025) 200m: 23.47 (2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Gabrielle Cole (born 30 November 2004) is a Canadian sprinter.[1]
Biography
From Ajax, Ontario, Cole attended J. Clarke Richardson Collegiate and trained as a member of the Flying Angels Track and Field Academy. She showed promise in sprinting at an early age. In 2019, she won three titles at the Canadian U16 Indoor Championship in Montreal at the age of 14 years-old, with her performances including setting a new meeting record over 60 metres.[2]
Cole studies at the University of Guelph. In February 2025, she set a personal best of 7.36 in the 60 m to lead in the U Sports rankings, and set a 200 metres outright personal best of 23.86 seconds.[3] She was selected that year for the Canadian relay pool to compete at the 2025 World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, China in May 2025, and ran in the heats of the mixed 4 x 100 metres relay, helping the Canada team win the gold medal.[4][5][6] In August, Cole won the 100 metres title at the 2025 Canada Games with a time of 11.70 seconds.[7]
In 2026, she lowered her 60 m personal best to 7.20 seconds at the 2026 U Sports Indoor Track & Field Championships in Winnipeg to move to second on the Canadian all-time U23 list, just one-hundredth of a second behind the U23 and U Sports record of 7.19, set by Khamica Bingham in 2015.[8] She also won the silver medal in the 300m the following day behind her teammate Dianna Proctor, before winning the women's 4x400m relay and placing second in the 4x200m relay alongside Proctor.[9] She was selected later that year as part of the Canadian team for the 2026 World Athletics Relays.[10]
Cole competed in the 100 metres at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, reaching the semi-finals.[11][12]
References
- ↑ "Gabrielle Cole". World Athletics. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
- ↑ "Ajax sprinter Gabrielle Cole grabs three gold medals at Canadian Indoor Championships". durhamregion.com. 24 Apr 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
- ↑ "Gabrielle Cole and Alanzo Ryan named Under Armour Athletes of the Week". Running Magazine. 6 Feb 2025. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
- ↑ "2025 WORLD RELAYS TEAM READY TO RUN". Athletics.ca. 16 Apr 2025. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
- ↑ "Olympic champions named on Canada's team for Guangzhou". World Athletics. 16 April 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
- ↑ "Canada runs to mixed relay gold, men's bronze in World Relays". olympic.ca. May 11, 2025. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
- ↑ "Ontario's Gabrielle Cole captures women's 100m title at Canada Games". cbc.ca. August 22, 2025. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
- ↑ "U Sports sprinters storm to world championship standard in Winnipeg". runningmagazine.ca. 6 Mar 2026. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
- ↑ "Gabby Cole (Gryphons Women's Track and Field) Named OUA Athlete of the Week m". gryphons.ca. March 10, 2026. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
- ↑ "2026 WORLD RELAYS TEAM READY TO PASS THE BATON IN GABORONE". Athletics.ca. 8 Apr 2026. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
- ↑ "XXIII Commonwealth Games". World Athletics. 27 July 2026. Retrieved 5 August 2026.
- ↑ "ATHLETICS TEAM NAMED FOR 2026 COMMONWEALTH GAMES". Athletics.ca. 24 June 2026. Retrieved 24 June 2026.