Grace Fetherstonhaugh
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| Born | 13 October 2000 | ||||||||||||||
| Education | Oregon State University | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | 3000 metres steeplechase | ||||||||||||||
| University team | Oregon State Beavers | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 1500m: 4:06.76 (Portland, 2025) 3000 metres steeplechase: 9:28.42 (Los Angeles 2025) Indoors 3000m: 8:47.47 (Boston, 2025) 5000m: 15:18.56 (Boston, 2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Grace Fetherstonhaugh (born 13 October 2000) is a Canadian steeplechaser and middle-distance runner. She won the 3000 metres steeplechase at the Canadian Athletics Championships in 2025 and represented Canada at the 2022 World Athletics Championships.[1]
Early life
[edit]She attended New Westminster Secondary School in New Westminster, British Columbia, and competed locally the Royal City Track and Field Club. She signed a letter of intent to run for the Oregon State University in 2018.[2]
Career
[edit]In June 2022, she ran a personal best in the 3000 metres steeplechase in Eugene, Oregon of 9:37.56. Later that year, Fetherstonhaugh competed in the 2022 World Athletics Championships for Canada in Eugene after qualifying through ranking.[3] She credited with fourth in the 3000m steeplechase at the 2022 NACAC Championships in Freeport, The Bahamas in August 2022.[4]
Competing for Oregon State University, she completed a double at the 2023 PAC-12 Champiobships, winning in both the 3000 metres steeplechase and the 5000 metres race.[5] She was a finalist in the women’s 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Austin, Texas, placing sixth overall in 9:49.48.[6][7] She was named the Pac-12 women’s track athlete of the year at the end of that season, the first member of the Oregon State Beavers to win that award.[8]
She finished in third place in the 3000 metres steeplechase at the Canadian Athletics Championships in Montreal in June 2024, in 9:43.13.[9] She placed second in the 3000m steeplechase in 9:43.68 at the Sound Running Sunset Tour in Los Angeles.[10] The following month, she won in England at the British Milers Grand Prix in Bury St Edmunds, in the 3000m steeplechase.[11]
At the Portland Track Festival in June 2025, she set back-to-back personal bests in the 3000 metres steeplechase (9:31.08) and the 1500 metres (4:06.76). The following month, she set another 3000m steeplechase personal best in Los Angeles, with 9:28.42.[12] She won the 2025 Canadian Athletics Championships in the 3000 metres steeplechase in 9:41.05 on 31 July 2025 in Ottawa.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ "Grace Fetherstonhaugh". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ Tsumura, Howard (April 11, 2018). "A steep chase for Grace? Hyacks' Oregon State-bound Fetherstonhaugh sets a sky-high steeplechase bar". Varisty Letters. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ Kelsall, Christopher (July 27, 2022). "Grace Fetherstonhaugh interview: 2022 World Athletics Championships". Athletics Illustrated. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ "NACAC Championships". World Athletics. 19 August 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ Saiz, Audrey (August 21, 2023). "PAC-12 champ Fetherstonhaugh looks to carry momentum into upcoming seasons". Daily Barometer. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ "Oregon State's Kaylee Mitchell, Grace Fetherstonhaugh sail through to steeplechase final at NCAA championships". Oregon Live. 8 June 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ "NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships". World Athletics. 10 June 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ "Oregon State's Grace Fetherstonhaugh wins Pac-12 women's track athlete of the year, the school's first". Oregon Live. 19 May 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ "Canadian Championships". World Athletics. 26 June 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ "Grace Fetherstonhaugh 2nd Place Women's 3000m Steeplechase - Sunset Tour 2024". Runnerspace. 21 April 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ "British Milers Club Grand Prix". World Athletics. 10 August 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ Ormond, Cameron (13 July 2025). "Canada's Gabriela DeBues-Stafford and Matti Erickson hit world championship standards". Running Magazine. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ Binder, Doug (1 August 2025). "OLYMPIC CHAMPION CAMRYN ROGERS WINS HAMMER AT CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS". Runnerspace. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
