Track and Field (M & W) | 2/25/2023 11:59:00 PM

MONTREAL – Matthew Beaudet of the McGill University men's track and field team collected his third gold medal of the weekend, broke a school record and was named as conference athlete of the year as the RSEQ championship wrapped up Saturday at Tomlinson Fieldhouse.
 
The McGill Redbirds produced 10 podium finishes, three of them golden, along with four silvers and three bronze medals. All gold medalists automatically qualify for the national championships and merit RSEQ first-team all-star honours, while silver medalists earn second-team honours.
 
Laval captured the men's title for the ninth consecutive season, finishing first of nine schools with 205 points. The Montreal Carabins were second with 148, followed by McGill (118), Sherbrooke (68), Carleton (40), UQTR (22), Concordia (15), UQAC (8) and UQAM (2).
 
Yassine Aber of the Carabins was named male athlete of the meet. Other major award recipients included Sherbrooke's Felix Quirion (rookie of the year) and Laval's Mathieu Masse-Pelletier, who won the conference's leadership award, as well as the top field performance of the year.
 
Beaudet, also won the conference award for the individual track performance of the year. An electrical engineering junior who turns 23 on Feb. 28, he showed no sign of jet lag after returning from Australia earlier in the week, where he ran for Canada at the world cross-country championship. The 5-foot-9, 145-pound distance runner from Montreal's NDG borough, was the second-highest scorer at the meet, accounting for 20 of McGill's 118 points. He won the 3,000-metre race on Saturday, crossing the finish line in a school record time of eight minutes, 18.75 seconds. That erased the previous mark of 8:18.79 that he set at the McGill Team Challenge last month. Beaudet struck gold twice on Friday, finishing first in the 1,500m (3:50.35) and running the anchor leg of McGill's winning 4x800 relay (7:40.03).
 
The winning relay foursome also featured Sebastian Danson, a computer science senior from Toronto in the leadoff spot, followed by De Paul University transfer Jules Gueguen, an economics major who hails from France, and Markus Geiger, a management junior from Toronto.
 
Among McGill's silver-medalists was Kilty McGonigal  from Deux-Montagnes, Que., and Olivier Gregoire of St. Aubert, Que.
 
McGonigal, a civil engineering sophomore, collected 4,415 points to win the heptathlon, while Gregoire, an arts and science sophomore, cleared a height of 4.30m in the pole vault.
 
The final two silver medal finishes went to the 4x200 and 4x400 relays. The first quartet, which finished in 1:30.72, featured leadoff sprinter Ricardo Percopo, a mechanical engineering junior from Boisbroiand, Que., Paul Mandelos, a science junior from TMR, Que., Alexander Crooks, an economics freshman from Montreal and Jules Barrieu, a physics senior from Manhattan Beach, Calif.
 
The other relay (3:22.23) was composed of Percopo, Barrieu, Crooks and Markus Geiger, a management junior from Toronto.
 
Geiger (1000m) and Crooks (high jump) also collected bronze medals, along with Mark Schulz (long jump), a physical education senior from Howick, Que.
 
Next on the agenda is the U SPORTS national championships, slated for Saskatoon, March 9-11.
 
LINK TO WOMEN'S RECAP
 
COMPLETE RESULTS IN PDF
 
LINK TO LIVE RESULTS
 
INDIVIDUAL U SPORTS NATIONAL RANKINGS
 

2023 RSEQ TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIP

Men's Final Standings

1. Laval, 205 pts
2. Montreal,148
3. McGill, 118
4. Sherbrooke, 68
5. Carleton, 40
6. UQTR, 22
7. Concordia, 15
8. UQAC, 8
9. UQAM, 2

MAJOR AWARDS
 
Athlètes du championnat / Athletes of the championship meet
 
(F): Jessy Lacourse, Laval
(M): Yassine Aber, Montreal
 
Athlètes de l'annee / Athletes of the year
 
(F): Jessy Lacourse, Laval
(M): Matthew Beaudet, McGill
 
Recrue de l'année / Rookie of the year
 
(F): Frédérique Chiasson, Laval
(M): Félix Quirion, Sherbrooke
 
La meilleure performance de l'année en piste / Track performance of the year
 
(F): Jessy Lacourse, Laval
(M): Matthew Beaudet, McGill
 
La meilleure performance de l'année en pelouse / Field performance of the year
 
(F): Audrey Leduc, Laval
(M): Mathieu Massé-Pelletier, Laval
 
Prix leadership & engagement social / Leadership & Social Engagement
 
(F): Marie-Hélène Vallière, UQTR
(M): Mathieu Massé-Pelletier, Laval
 

HOW McGILL'S BEST FARED AT THE RSEQ CHAMPIONSHIP MEET
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MEN			BEST RESULT			TOMLINSON	UNIVERSITY
EVENT	REDBIRDS	RANK	(FINAL)	(PRELIM)	McGILL RECORD	FIELDHOUSE RECORD	RSEQ RECORD
60m	Ricardo Percopo	10th		0:07.19	0:06.78	0:06.56	0:06.58
200m	(event not held at meet)
300m	Ricardo Percopo	6th	0:36.02		0:34.14	0:32.95	0:33.40
600m	Sebastian Danson	8th	1:23.48		1:19.15	1:16.90	1:17.26
1000m	Markus Geiger	BRONZE	2:26.87		2:24.76	2:21.02	2:21.01
1500m	Matthew Beaudet	GOLD	3:50.35		3:48.01	3:43.21	3:43.21
3000m	Matthew Beaudet	GOLD	8:18.75 (MR)		8:18.79	8:00.09	7:51.37
5000m	(event not held at meet)
60m hurdles	Jeremi Kolakowski	4th	0:09.27		0:08.19	0:07.75	0:07.85
4x200m	Ricardo Percopo, Paul Mandelos,    Alexander Crooks, Jules Barrieu	SILVER	1:30.72		1:27.92	1:24.85	1:26.01
4x400m	Ricardo Percopo, Jules Barrieu,       Alexander Crooks, Markus Geiger	SILVER	3:22.23		3:14.98	3:14.12	3:14.98
4x800m	Sebastian Danson, Jules Gueguen,      Markus Geiger, Matthew Beaudet	GOLD	7:40.03		7:38.96	7:30.83	7:35.00
High Jump	Alexander Crooks	BRONZE	1.75m (J)		2.07m	2.27m	2.27m
Pole Vault	Olivier Gregoire	SILVER	4.30m (J)		4.86m	5.40m	5.50m
Long Jump	Mark Schulz	BRONZE	6.45m		7.20m	7.63m	7.64m
Triple Jump	(McGill entry was scratched)	na	na		14.90m	16.15m	15.89m
Shot Put (7.26 kg)	Nicholas Sabelli	7th	10.90m		16.35m	18.33m	17.93m
Weight Throw (35 lbs)	Patrick Young	6th	10.02m		(n/a)	23.61m	20.09m
Pentathlon	(event not held at meet)	na	na		3,669 pts	3,877 pts	3,685 pts
Heptathlon	Kilty McGonigal	SILVER	4,415 pts		4,739 pts	4,957 pts	5,267 pts
(MR) McGill record
(J) tied and placing was based on jumps taken

SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
Sports Information Officer
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McGill University
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