Grace Fetherstonhaugh

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Grace Fetherstonhaugh
Personal information
Born (2000-10-13) 13 October 2000 (age 24)
Education Oregon State University
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event 3000 metres steeplechase
University team Oregon State Beavers
Achievements and titles
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)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
NACAC Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Freeport 3000m steeplechase
Pan American U20 Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 San José 3000m Steeplechase

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]

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Early life

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

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]

She was named in the Canadian team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [14]

References

  1. "Grace Fetherstonhaugh". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  2. 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.
  3. Kelsall, Christopher (July 27, 2022). "Grace Fetherstonhaugh interview: 2022 World Athletics Championships". Athletics Illustrated. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  4. "NACAC Championships". World Athletics. 19 August 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  5. Saiz, Audrey (August 21, 2023). "PAC-12 champ Fetherstonhaugh looks to carry momentum into upcoming seasons". Daily Barometer. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  6. "Oregon State's Kaylee Mitchell, Grace Fetherstonhaugh sail through to steeplechase final at NCAA championships". Oregon Live. 8 June 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  7. "NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships". World Athletics. 10 June 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  8. "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.
  9. "Canadian Championships". World Athletics. 26 June 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  10. "Grace Fetherstonhaugh 2nd Place Women's 3000m Steeplechase - Sunset Tour 2024". Runnerspace. 21 April 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  11. "British Milers Club Grand Prix". World Athletics. 10 August 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  12. Ormond, Cameron (13 July 2025). "Canada's Gabriela DeBues-Stafford and Matti Erickson hit world championship standards". Running Magazine. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  13. Binder, Doug (1 August 2025). "OLYMPIC CHAMPION CAMRYN ROGERS WINS HAMMER AT CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS". Runnerspace. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  14. Dickinson, Marley (28 August 2025). "Athletics Canada names 59 athletes to 2025 World Championships team". Running Magazine. Retrieved 28 August 2025.