Category: Athlete

Inducted: Friday, December 2, 2022

Place of Birth: Newfoundland and Labrador

Florence Barron is an amazing and fantastic runner who has consistently won and set age-group records in local and provincial road races for quite a number of years. She is the holder of multiple road race records and shows little sign of slowing down.

In 2017, Florence travelled to the French island of Miquelon for the challenging 25 km race, where she established a new age-group record, knocking fifteen minutes off the previous record.

She returned the following year and bettered her previous year’s record in the same event. When she celebrated her 80th birthday, she once again established a new age-group record in the Miquelon race becoming the oldest runner in the history of the event to ever race the course.

Apart from her tremendous age-group performances in the international Miquelon race, Florence has consistently won and established records in the grueling 20 km Cape to Cabot race, a course featuring a number of lengthy steep climbs and billed as the “toughest race in Eastern North America”. In the 2017 C2C contest, she raced the course in tremendous form, finishing in 2:06:58 for a new nine-second PB. In the 2022 C2C race, she once again demonstrated her fine racing ability, finishing the course in 2:21:54.

In the historic and prestigious Tely 10 Road Race in 2017, Florence not only set a new age-group record in an incredible chip time of 1:27:19, but she also finished ahead of more than 3000 other runners. This was her 19th time running the Tely.

Florence is a beloved figure at all road races. For her age, ability and truly positive attitude, she continues to inspire generations of runners of all backgrounds. She is indeed a local, provincial and national treasure in a class of her own.