Liam Simard, from Baie-Comeau, will participate in the summer games of Canada 2025 in athletics. He is one of the youngest of the team that will represent the province of Quebec in Saint-Jean de Terre-Neuve from August 8 to 25.
Aged 20, he qualified last June after having established personal records at the weight of weight and disc, as well as in high jump.
It is for these three athletics disciplines that he presents himself at the Canada Games.
It is a beautiful front door for the Olympics. I think I have my chances if I continue to perform well like that.
Currently, he is still in preparation for this sporting event, he indicates at the microphone of Hello coastFriday morning. I take the plane on the 17th [août]. We make the second block of Canada Games in Athletics
Explique Liam Simard.
He is part of the category of under 24 in athletics. Several athletes who will be present are therefore older than him. It seems in athletics […] Three years of difference in training
he notes.
He is a full -time athlete in Décathlon, a discipline bringing together 10 sporting jumps of jumps, races and throws.
His favorite discipline at Canada Games? The disc throwing, according to him.
Many will know me on the North Shore like a launcher
he says. He adds that he had specialized in hammer throwing in the past. However, he replaced it with the disk throw since the hammer throw is not part of the Decathlon tests.
Liam Simard placed himself in 20th place during the Californian Athletics Tournament Bryan Clay Invititational last April.
According to an interview with Mathieu Pineau
