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Natasha Wodak is a 17-time Canadian national team member who represented her country at the Rio 2016 Olympics and won gold over 10,000 meters at the 2019 Pan American Games.

Wodak is Canada’s national record-holder in the 10,000 with a personal-best time of 31:41.59 which she set in Palo Alto, CA in 2015. She broke the Pan American Games record in the distance when she clocked a 31:55.17 to win gold in the event last year. Already this year, she posted a personal-best half marathon time of 1:09:41 at the Houston Half Marathon, which made her the first Canadian woman to run a half marathon under 70 minutes. 

Wodak, who grew up in Surrey, British Columbia, has been running cross-country since fourth grade and won a NAIA national championship with Simon Fraser University.