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Karyn Jewell,
competing for BC at the Canada Games in PEI this week started
the provincial team off to a great meet by capturing the Gold Medal
in the very first event of the competition - the women’s
1500m Freestyle.
Karyn started off strong and never
looked back as she turned in a smoking fast time of 16:29.45, that
ranks her as the 3rd fastest Canadian and 9th in the world this
year. Her time slashed a massive 23 seconds off her personal best
and puts her 29 seconds away from the Canadian senior national
record in the event!
The meet continues all week,
Karyn’s next race is the 10km openwater on Sunday, August
30th.
Swim BC report below;
Karyn Jewell, WDSC, set the B.C. Canada Games team on
fire with an opening event Gold medal swim in the women’s
1500 Freestyle. Jewell led almost wire to wire to take the win in
16:29.45. Richard Weinberger, UVIC-PCS picked up the torch and
grabbed the Gold medal in the men’s 800 freestyle. Craig
Dagnall,
Island
, was .07 behind to win the
silver.
Julianne
Brown
, Chena, had a great swim to
finish fourth in the women’s 1500, missing a medal by .04
The women’s 4X200 freestyle relay had
a solid four person effort to come away with the bronze
medal.
Olivia
Montgomery
, Taryne Landry, Laura Sze
and
Julianne
Brown
held off a late charging
Quebec
team to garner the medal.
The boys 4X200 freestyle relay had
excellent swims by all four boys to place fourth. Michael Cai,
Jeremy Bagshaw, Nicholas Sinclair and Alec Page swam nearly as fast
as the first place seed time going into the event.
Six events, 2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze and
2 fourth place finishes means a very good start for the team. B.C.
is trying to win the over-all Canada Games Provincial points race.
B.C. led by one point after the first week of competition. The
swimmers intend to do their part to bring home the title.
The meet continues tomorrow with the 50
Breaststroke, 400 I.M., 200 Butterfly, 100 Freestyle and 200
Freestyle relay. Also included in the program tomorrow are the
Para-swimmers and Special Olympics athletes.
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