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Canadian sprinter Effah doing things his way
Sam Effah owns the third fastest legal 100m time ever recorded by a Canadian. (Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press)In successfully defending his Canadian 100metre title in his hometown of Calgary this summer, Sam Effah confirmed that he's the best this country has to offer in track and field's glamour event.
But is the 22yearold doing enough to become one of the best in the world as he prepares to compete at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, Korea, which begin Aug. 27? A pair of Canadian sprint legends aren't so sure, even though Effah is saying the right things.
"I like to shoot for high goals. If you don't, you shoot for mediocrity," Effah says. "Ultimately, my goal is to break 10 seconds, but to get there I have to go step by step. I have to be consistently in the low zeros."
Effah has been there. A year ago, the then thirdyear student in the University of Calgary's Faculty of Business ran an eyecatching personal best of 10.06 seconds to capture the NACAC (North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association) championship in Florida. It was the third fastest legal time ever recorded by a Canadian if,[url=http://www.floware.fr]sac michael kors[/url], like Athletics Canada, you discount the times of Ben Johnson.
Under pressure Effah immediately was touted as the man best suited to fill the fleet footsteps of 1996 Olympic champion Donovan Bailey and Bruny Surin, the 1999 world championship silver medallist. Both ran 9.84 seconds in the 1990s. But as desperate as Canadian athletics is to find a replacement for that pair, tapping Effah for the job might be a little too ambitious and just a little unfair. Bailey and Surin, after all, were consistently ranked amongst the world's best.
Effah admits to feeling pressure.
"I think there is pressure, but my stance personally [is] I run because I enjoy it," he says. "At the end of the day I know I'm going all out, so I can only run for me. I can attest to the pressure but, again, I can only do what I can do. Hopefully next year that is under 10 seconds.
"My dream, my goal is to win an Olympic medal. I know there's a lot of work that has to be done."
Much was expected of Effah when he competed at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, but the gruelling four rounds of 100m competition got the better of him and he finished a disappointing seventh.
His only other major international experience came at the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin, where it was truly baptism by fire.
In his first 200metre qualifying round, Effah lined up next to world record holder and Olympic champion Usain Bolt, but still managed to advance to the quarterfinals. He also helped the Canadian 4x100 relay team to a fifthplace finish in the final. The entire experience, he believes, was invaluable.
No killer instinct? Bailey and Surin led Canada to relay gold at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta along with teammates Robert Esmie and Glenroy Gilbert. The latter is now head coach of the Canadian relay program, of which Effah is a key component.
While Athletics Canada sees medal potential in the relay, Bailey has always taken the position that the team event is secondary to the individual.
"There's no shortage of talent in this country," Bailey says. "But I always tell these kids that they are in an individual sport. Ultimately, you have to have a winning attitude. Right now we are in this relay or team sport mentality and there's really no one on the team with that killer attitude."
"How old is Sam now? 22? Well, Usain Bolt is 24 [25 on Aug. 21]. It's a young man's game. If you are 18 to 25, you have to utilize that because there's so much talent out there. The Jamaicans have a kid 16 years old running 10.1."
Go abroad, young man Bailey points out that he left Canada to train yearround in the United States with worldclass athletes, while Surin used the money he earned to pay for training abroad with 1992 Olympic champion Linford Christie of Great Britain. Both Canadians based themselves in Europe during the summer months in order to compete as often as possible against the world's best.
Surin is another proponent of choosing the right environment to achieve success.
"We have good coaches in Canada," says Surin, "But I'm 100 per cent sure that you need to be in an environment where you have international athletes with you. You need to have a good base in Canada, but if you want to go to the next level you need to go into an environment with international athletes.
"Usain Bolt has a lot of great athletes training with him and [former 100m world record holder] Asafa Powell does too. He's not in a corner training by himself."
Need money Effah says he's comfortable in Calgary training with longtime coach Brenda Van Tighem. Though he has been competing for just five years, he notes that he has improved each season.
"I have got the support I think I need in Calgary," he insists. "The big thing about training in the States is the money. The thing about training in California, if we get that full support, of course we are going to be training there, but it's an amateur sport and the average athlete is not going to have the funding. While you are at that level you can go and train wherever you want. But, again, my situation in Calgary is great."
Effah credits the University of Calgary, Athletics Canada, the Calgary Sports Centre and a local restaurant called The Main Dish with supporting him. He enjoys being part of Gilbert's relay program and wouldn't want it any other way.
"I like both events [the relay and individual 100] and treat them equally," he says. "Obviously, when you train for track you train to be the fastest in the world, but it's just as good to be on the team and have that team aspect. We can do well in both those events."