Marie-Éloïse Leclair
Canadian athlete
Marie-Éloïse Leclair (born 10 September 2002) is a Canadian sprinter. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Biography
Whilst a student at Simon Fraser University, she was named by the Great Northwest Athletic Conference as their 2023-24 Female Athlete of the Year.
Leclair was part of the Canadian 4 × 100 m relay team that competed at the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas, and qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games.
Leclair was selected to compete for Canada at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris for her Olympic debut. She was part of the 4 × 100 m sprint relay team which qualified for the final, setting a national record of 42.50 seconds.
Leclair was selected for the Canadian relay pool for the 2025 World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, China in May 2025, where she won gold in the inaugural Mixed 4 x 100 metres relay. She was named in the Canadian team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.
Leclair was selected as part of the Canada team for the 2026 World Athletics Relays in Gaborone, Botswana. In the mixed 4 x 100 metres relay she was part of the team which briefly set a new world record time of 40.07 seconds, until it was broken by Jamaica in the following heat.
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