Grace Fetherstonhaugh
Canadian steeplechaser (born 2000)
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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]
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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) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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 later placed 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, where she competed in the 3000 metres steeplechase without advancing to the final.[14][15] On 10 January 2026, she placed 42nd overall at the 2026 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Tallahassee.[16][17]