OTTAWA – Canadian runner Daundre Barnaby has died in a swimming accident at a national team training camp in St. Kitts.
Athletics Canada says he was swimming recreationally with teammates when he disappeared.
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Rob Guy, chief executive officer of Athletics Canada, said Barnaby was “an outstanding athlete and an even better young man.”
“This is such a sad and profound loss,” he said in a statement.
A 400-metre specialist from Brampton, Ont., Barnaby was born in St. Ann, Jamaica. He became a Canadian citizen in 2012 and competed for Canada at the London Olympics that same year.
He last represented Canada at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Scotland.
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