The Star's sports year in review continues with the month of September which saw athletes travelling all over the country and the world to snag medal after medal.

The first batch of those medals came from the 2009 Canadian Orienteering Championships held in Carberry, Man. where 10 Yukoners grabbed 17 medals.

The group was led with gold medals by Lee Hawkins, Nesta Leduc, Jennifer Mackeigan and Kendra Murray. All junior athletes managed to bring home a medal from the championships.

On the second weekend in September the Klondike Road Relay was held, with defending champions Skinny Raven: Take no Prisoners once again stealing the win.

On Sunday, Sept. 13, $6,000 was raised at the annual Terry Fox Run held on the Millenium Trail. This year's run was organized for the second time by George Maratos, who was ecstatic about the amount he got to report in to the Terry Fox Foundation.

Phase one of the bike park at Mt. McIntyre opened on Friday Sept. 18, with a soft opening that invited bikers of all ages out to see what the new park had to offer.

The celebration was held by the Contagious Bike Club. This summer the club will hold a similar celebration for phase two of the park.

In October, the Yukon Selects mens soccer team posted their best result ever at the Challenge Trophy despite a 4-1 loss against Quebec in their final game. A week later, the team beat Ontario at the Soccer Nationals after losing their previous four games. The team returned to Whitehorse on a high due to the result.

Several Yukoners headed to the World Masters Games in Sydney, Australia halfway through October. Tanya Astika and Bonnie Love were sure they wouldn't be doing well in the race walking events they entered, but pulled off a gold and silver medal finish in their first event, the 20-kilometre race walk.

After their awesome result, 75-year-old Nesta Leduc grabbed the silver medal in orienteering. She followed that up a few days later with a gold in the 2.3-km event.

She finished the race a full 12 minutes ahead of her closest competitor in a field of 14 with her time of 47 minutes, 51 seconds.

Swimmer Alexandra Gabor became a carded athlete in October and began to receive national funding.

In November the Yukon had a once-in-a-lifetime sport icon travel through, as the Olympic flame made its stop in Whitehorse enroute to the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.

The flame was passed through the city by a variety of lucky torchbearers, followed by a celebration at Shipyards Park attended by hundreds of people.

The Midget Mustangs took home a bronze at the Abbotsford Memorial Tournament at the beginning of the month.The team won all of their round robin games at the tournament, but lost 7-1 in the final against Coquitlam.

Local hockey fan Tyler Egglestone got the chance of a lifetime when he won a contest with TSN and Samsung to meet hockey legend Wayne Gretzky. The 10-year-old travelled to Calgary with his mom Charlene where he played a scrimmage game with the Great One.

Gabor took home a bronze medal in the 200-metre freestyle at a World Cup of Swimming event in Stockholm, Sweden, breaking the Canadian and B.C. 15-17 record with her time of 1 minute, 55.06 seconds. She followed that up at the next World Cup stop in Berlin, Germany with a bronze medal in the 200 m, setting another 15-17 age group record for Canada and B.C. and breaking her previous one with a time of 1 minute, 54.97 seconds.

At the BMO Skate Canada Sectionals held in Richmond, the Arctic Edge skaters scored two medals. Rachel Pettitt earned a silver, and Kevin Caron qualified to skate at the 2010 BMO Skate Canada Western Challenge with his bronze-medal skate.

Denise McHale defended her title of Canadian 100 -kilometre champion after her win at the Haney 2 Harrison Race in Vancouver.

After a 16-year hiatus, the Whitehorse Huskies AAA hockey team were revived to once again battle for the Allan Cup. The team had its first game on Nov. 20 and 21, and split the series, winning the first game 4-2 against the Powell River Regals but losing the second 9-1.

At the end of the month, Canadian curling legends, Team Martin were in Whitehorse for the Skookum Cash Spiel. The team took the tournament and the time afterward to meet with the impressive number of fans and well-wishers that gathered at the Whitehorse Curling Club to see the Olympian. Kevin Martin and his team later won the right to represent Canada for a second time at the 2010 Olympics.

At the Canada Cup of Swimming, Whitehorse Glacier Bear swim club member Gabor swam to a gold medal in the 200 metre free, finishing a full two seconds faster than her opponents. This was the first time a Bear had won a senior national championship event.

Bronwyn Pasloski took home a bronze medal in the 100 m breastroke at the event as well.

Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club member Dahria Beatty had an impressive turnout at the Noram races in Soverein Lakes, B.C. She brought home a bronze medal in the 10 km free technique race and a gold in 1.1 km, followed by Janelle Greer in second place to earn a silver medal.

Last week Haley Braga followed in the footsteps of Gabor and Pasloski when she became a member of the B.C. Swim Team. As a member, Braga will compete at her first big meet, the 2010 Pacific Coast All Star meet in Cheritos, California.

This ends an incredible year in sport that kept your Whitehorse Star sports editors, Jonathan Molson and myself, Annalee Grant, very busy.

I look forward to 2010 and what our talented athletes accomplish, as they continue to make the Yukon a force to be reckoned with on the world stage.