1993

1993

The 11th annual meet attracted some of track and field’s biggest names, who performed despite the dismal, rainy evening conditions at Coquitlam’s Town Centre Stadium. Olympic and world champion Carl Lewis ran the anchor leg for his Santa Monica Track Club team in the men’s 4×100-metre relay. Joining Lewis on the team was venerable sprinter Floyd Heard, former world 100-metre record holder Leroy Burrell, and 1992 Olympic 200-metre gold medallist Mike Marsh.

While the foursome had boasted a plan to rewrite the world record of 37.40 seconds at the Jerome meet, their 38.59 meet record in soggy conditions was still a crowd pleaser. Earlier in the meet, Marsh set a meet record of 20.52 in winning the 200 metres. Abbotsford’s Sarah Howeell ran a personal best 4:10.9 to win the women’s 1,500 metres to qualify for the World Student Games while national record holder Graeme Fell was best in the men’s steeplechase.