Whitehorse Daily Star

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.

By Whitehorse Star on July 15, 2010

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.

Comments (1)

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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

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