Sienna MacDonald

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Sienna MacDonald
Personal information
Born (2002-08-15) 15 August 2002 (age 22)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event Heptathlon
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)60m: 7.52 (Regina, 2025)
100m: 12.03 (Calgary, 2023)
200m: 24.76 (Calgary, 2024)
800m: 2:23.58 (Langley, 2022)
60m hurdles: 7.97 (Edmonton, 2025)
100m hurdles: 13.13 (Calgary, 2024)
Long jump: 6.27m (Tucson, 2024)
High jump 1.71m (Edmonton, 2025)
Javelin: 45.19m (Calgary, 2024)
Shot put: 12.82m (Calgary, 2024)
Pentathlon 4159 (Edmonton, 2025)
Heptathlon 5879 (Calgary, 2024)

Sienna MacDonald (born 15 August 2002) is a Canadian multi-event athlete. She was Canadian national champion in the heptathlon in 2022. [1]

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Early life

She is from Airdrie, Alberta and attended George McDougall High School. She participated in a number of sports including gymnastics, basketball and soccer whilst growing up, before focusing on athletics. She placed second in both the U18 100 metres hurdles and the heptathlon at the Legion Nationals in 2019 in Nova Scotia. [2]

Career

She won the 60 metres hurdles at the Simplot Games in 2020, and won at the 2022 Canadian Track and Field Championships in the heptathlon in June 2022, with a personal best score of 5643 points. [3] [4] [5]

A student at the University of Calgary, she competes on a collegiate level for the Calgary Dinos. [6] She won three individual gold medals at the 2024 U Sports Championships, winning the women's pentathlon by a margin of 370 points, setting a new personal record of 4,164 points, and also winning the women’s long jump and women’s 60m hurdles. [6] She was only the second female athlete, after Jessica Zelinka in 2007, to win three gold medals at the event. She was named Canada West Women's Track Athlete of the Year in 2024. [4] [7]

In February 2025, competing at the Annual Pandas Open in Alberta she set a personal best in the 60m hurdles, running 7.97 seconds in the preliminary round and backed-it-up in the event’s final to win in 8.00 seconds. Her previous best was 8.11 seconds. In the same weekend, she won the long jump with a jump of 6.23m and placed third in the high jump. [8]

She was selected for the 60 metres hurdles at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025. [9]

References

  1. ↑ "Sienna MacDonald". World Athletics. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  2. ↑ "Sienna MacDonald Explosive Edge Amazing Athlete". Airdrie Life. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  3. ↑ "Bell Canadian Outdoor Championships". World Athletics. 22 June 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Sienna MacDonald Leads Gen Z Track Trends". Therockies.life. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  5. ↑ Strasser, Scott (25 June 2022). "Airdrie track athlete wins gold in heptathlon at Canadian nationals". Airdrie City View. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  6. 1 2 Dickinson, Marley (14 March 2024). "Sienna MacDonald and Emmett Bravakis named Under Armour U Sports Athletes of the Week". Runninh Magazine. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  7. ↑ "Airdrie's Sienna MacDonald nears 60 metres hurdles world record". Airdrie City View. 28 Feb 2025. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  8. ↑ Ormerod, Cameron (12 February 2025). "Sienna MacDonald and Grégory Michel named Under Armour Athletes of the Week". Running Magazine. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  9. ↑ "TEAM CANADA READY TO TAKE ON THE WORLD INDOORS". Athletics.ca. 10 Mar 2025. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
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