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| Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 August 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Middle-distance running | ||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Boston University Terriers | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 800m: 1:47.81 (2025) 1500m: 3:32.38 (2025) Mile: 3:53.82 (2025) 3000m: 7:50.96 (2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Foster Malleck (born 12 August 2001) is a Canadian middle-distance runner. He won the gold medal in the 1500 metres at the 2025 NACAC Championships and competed for Canada at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships. [1]
He is from Kitchener, Ontario. [2] He won the gold medal over 1500 metres at the 2019 Pan American U20 Athletics Championships. [3] He won the bronze medal at the 2023 NACAC U23 Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica. [4]
Malleck competed collegiately for Boston University.
Malleck won both the mile run and 3000 metres at the Patriot League Indoor Track and Field championship on 3 March 2025. [5] He finished third in the mile at the 2025 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships in Virginia Beach in March 2025 competing for Boston University. [6] That month, he competed for Canada at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China. [7] [8]
He finished as runner-up to Max Davies over 1500 metres at the 2025 Canadian Athletics Championships in Ottawa. [9] He ran a personal best 3:32.38 for the 1500m performance at La Classique de Montréal, a time that met the auto-qualifying standard for the upcoming world championships and moved him to second on the Canadian all-time list. [10]
He won the gold medal over 1500 metres at the 2025 NACAC Championships in Freeport, The Bahamas in 3:37.55 to break the championship record previously held by Eric Holt. [11] [12] [13] In September 2025, he was a semi-finalist over 1500 metres at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [14] [15]
In January 2026, he ran as part of the Canadian mixed 4x2 km relay team which placed ninth overall at the 2026 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Tallahassee, Florida, alongside Jean-Simon Desgagnés, Kate Current and Regan Yee. [16] [17]