Aaron Brown Track and Field Toronto, ON Bronze medal in 4x100m relay – 2016 Rio Olympic Games Silver medal in 100m – 2016 Canadian National Championships Silver medal in 200m – Canadian National Championships Bronze medal in 4x100m relay – World Championships in Beijing Aaron Brown, RBC Olympian
Aaron is a two-time Canadian Olympic sprinter from Toronto currently preparing for the 2018 Commonwealth Games and IAAF Diamond League season, along with the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. His disciplines are the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay, and he has earned spots on many championship teams over the span of his career, including proudly representing Canada on multiple occasions on the international stage. At these championships Aaron has garnered many medals, from the youth to the senior level; more recently he earned bronze medals in the 4x100m at the 2013 and 2015 IAAF World Championships, and at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. Aaron and his team broke a 20-year-old national record that belonged to the Olympic Champion relay team who won gold at the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996, which featured Canadian sprint legends, and inspirations for Aaron, Donovan Bailey and Bruny Surin. He is also the fourth Canadian in history to run sub-10 seconds in the 100m, with a personal best of 9.96, and he is third all-time in Canada in the 200m with a personal best of 20.00.
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