Jadyn Keeler
Canadian long-distance runner
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Jadyn Keeler (born 16 June 2003) is a Canadian long-distance and cross country runner. She won the Canadian national title and set a new national record in the half marathon in 2026. She won the 10,000 metres at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games, and set Canadian under-23 records that year over 10,000 metres and 5000 metres indoors.[1]
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| Born | 16 June 2003 | |||||||||||||||||
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Events | Long distance running, Cross country running | |||||||||||||||||
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Biography
From Barrie, Ontario, Keeler attends University of North Dakota. In February 2025, she ran an indoor personal best over 5000 metres of 15:28.29. She made her NCAA championships debut indoors the following month, where she placed tenth in the 5000 metres final.[2]
In April at the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, California, Keeler set a new Canadian U23 record for the 10,000 metres, running 32:06.70 to break the mark set by Gracelyn Larkin in 2023.[3] In June, she made her NCAA Outdoor Championships debut, and placed 16th in the 10,000 metres with a time of 32:59.12.[2]
Keeler won the gold medal over 10,000 metres, and the silver medal over 5000 metres, at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games in Asunción, Paraguay.[4] She won the 10,000 metres in a championship record time or 34:16.61, with a winning margin close to two minutes.[2]
Competing for the University of North Dakota in cross country, Keeler was undefeated in her first three races of the 2025 NCAA season and was named NCAA Division I Women’s National Athlete of the Week in September 2025.[5] She then placed fourth at the Midwest Regionals in Stillwater, Oklahoma, the best individual regional finish in the program history for the University of North Dakota.[6] She placed 26th at the 2025 NCAA Cross Country Championship.[7][8]
Keeler set a Canadian under-23 indoor national record over 5000 metres in December 2025, running 15:14.76 in Boston, Massachusetts, to break the previous mark set by Chloe Thomas.[9] In February, Keeler competed at the BU Valentine over 3000 metres, running below nine-minutes for the first time and setting a 27–second personal best with 8:50.45. In the penultimate NCAA indoor track meeting of her eligibility, Keeler won a hat trick of titles, winning the mile run, 3000m and 5000m at the 2026 Summit League Indoor Championships in Grand Forks, and was named MVP of the meet.[10] She placed twelfth in the 5000 m in 15:40.81 on 13 March at the 2026 NCAA Indoor Championships.[11] That year, having broken five University of North Dakota records, she placed third at the NCAA West Regionals in the 10,000m in 32:11.14, finishing behind Jane Hedengren and Pamela Kosgei, and qualified in both the 5,000m and 10,000m for the 2026 NCAA Outdoor Championships.[12][13] In the 10,000 metres final, Keeler ran 32:04.97 for sixth place.[14] The following week, Keeler finished runner-up to Gabriela Debues-Stafford over 5000 metres at the Canadian Championships.[15] In August, she won the Canadian Half Marathon Championships in Edmonton, despite a measurement error that added nearly 700 metres to the stated distance.[16] On 20 September, she set a new Canadian national record in the half marathon at the 2026 World Athletics Road Running Championships in Copenhagen, running 1:08:03 to finish 16th in the race, breaking the previous record set in 2020 by 95 seconds.[17]