First day of Games brings gold medal haul for Yukon athletes
Team Yukon picked up three gold medals on the first full day of competition at the Special Olympics Canada Summer Games in London, Ont. Wednesday.
Team Yukon picked up three gold medals on the first full day of competition at the Special Olympics Canada Summer Games in London, Ont. Wednesday.
Owen Munroe finished first in the 5,000-metre athletics final, while both BJ McKay and Cole Robinson-Boivin won gold in swimming's 25- metre freestyle.
Yukon athletes also set a number of personal bests and beat Ontario 1-0 in soccer.
Here is a full list of results:
Athletics
5,000 Metre Final
Owen Munroe, 25:47.46 — Gold
100 Metre Divisioning
Jessica Pruden, 19.13
200 Metre Divisioning
Jessica Pruden, 39.40
Bowling 5-Pin
Yukon 1 vs. Ontario 7
Garry Chaplin, 96
JS Gallant, 95
Marvin Hall, 105
Aimee Lien, 108
Carrie Rudolph, 121
Yukon 6 vs. Saskatchewan 2
Garry Chaplin, 147
JS Gallant, 97
Marvin Hall, 107
Aimee Lien, 115
Carrie Rudolph, 99
Yukon 0 vs. Alberta 6
Garry Chaplin, 107
JS Gallant, 79
Marvin Hall, 85
Aimee Lien, 159
Carrie Rudolph, 217
Soccer
Divisioning Game
Yukon 1, Ontario 0
Divisioning Game
Yukon 1, Newfoundland and Labrador 3
Yukon has been placed in Division C for the remainder of the Games Swimming
25-Metre Freestyle
Divisioning Race
BJ McKay – 25.60
Cole Robinson-Boivin – 20.91
25-Metre Freestyle Final
BJ McKay, 22.59 — Gold
Cole Robinson-Boivin, 19.46 — Gold
Today at the Summer Games, Team Yukon will compete in athletics, bowling and soccer. Munroe takes on the competition in shotput while Pruden will run the 100-metre final and do the standing long jump.
Bowling features two games against Ontario while the Yukon also faces Ontario in soccer, as well as New Brunswick.
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Shirley McKay on Jul 15, 2010 at 3:13 pm
I would like to thankyou for covering this wonderful event. Our Olympians are proud to represent the Yukon,they don't do it for money and they more then likly will never be asked to do commercials, they do it because they are proud of what they can do. They are proud YUKONERS that is what they are always telling people.
So Thank-you BJ McKay's MOM