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Trujillo, Peru – In 2013, Alysha Newman, Sage Watson, Shawn Barber, Brandon McBride, Georgia Ellenwood, Jenna Westaway and Andre DeGrasse helped set a medal count record for Canada. This year’s team appears ready to challenge that seventeen medal total.
Winning six medals was a big confidence boost on Day 1 and the momentum appears have carried over. Gabby Rains of Sherwood Park, Alberta got things started on Day 2 in the discus with a throw of 53.06m. Her throw earned a bronze medal and medals started coming early and often.
The medal haul saw athletes across a variety of event groups contribute to the effort. Ashlan Best of Guelph, Ont., took home the gold medal in the 200m in a time of 23.27. Jean-Simon Desgagnés of Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges, Que., won gold in the men’s 3000 metre steeplechase (8:56.47), Laura Dickinson of Miramichi, N.B., claimed gold in the women’s 5000m metres (16.39.50) and Victoria Tachinski of Winnipeg, Man., was victorious in the women’s 800 metres (2:04.22).
Silver medals went to Jazz Shukla of Toronto in the women’s 800 metres, Marco Arop of Edmonton in the men’s 800 metres. Arop ran under the Pan Am U20 Record in the event along with the winner from Puerto Rico edging him out. Mikella Oatis-Lefebvre of Montreal in the women’s high jump and the women’s 4x100 meter relay of Best, Shyvonne Roxborough of Ottawa, Eunice Boateng of Ajax, Ont., Kiera Galloway of Gloucester, Ont., finished off the day with a bronze as well.
-Nathan Lennie reporting for Athletics Canada
