September 28, 2010
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Senior games athletes are golden
Eighty-one Northwest athletes brought home 82 medals from the BC Seniors Games held in the Comox Valley and Campbell River on Vancouver Island.
The medal breakdown is 34 gold, 22 silver and 26 bronze.
Local athlete Leona Smith said the games were well organized, lots of fun and could be her last. Her five medal win would be a good place to retire, while she’s on top.
“It is about the medals,” she said. “Anyone who says they don’t care about the medals, well I care, I don’t know why they say that.”
She said her team tried for a world record in the 4×100 metre race but missed it by two seconds. On the team with her was the oldest athlete at the games 91-year-old Olga Kotelko of West Vancouver plus Louise Sorensen of Surrey and Brigitte Killat of Campbell River.
“The coach had arranged for a second run but we declined,” said Smith, adding it was after the 200 m race and they were beat.
Smith won gold in the long jump for women age 80 to 84 and bronze in the shot put. She also won gold in 200 metres, gold in 100 metres, and bronze in discus for her age group.
Swimmer Joe Mandur Sr. won gold in 100 metre breast stroke, 100 metre individual medley, 25 metre breast stroke and silver in 400 metre freestyle, 100 metre freestyle and 200 metre freestyle, all in the men 75 to 79 age group.
Maxine Smallwood won gold in the hammer throw for women age 80 and 84, gold in shot put, gold in the weights category and silver in the weight pentathlon for women. She also won gold in discus and silver in javelin.
Bob Goodvin won bronze in discus, javelin and shot put for men age 85 and 89.
Donna Graf won bronze in weights, shot put and weight pentathlon for women between the ages of 60 and 64. She also won silver in long jump and silver in 100 metres, bronze in 200 metres and silver in pentathlon.
Carlo Stella won silver for the 10 km road walk for men between the ages of 75 and 79 and bronze in the 5,000 metre power walk.
Norma MacDonald won gold in net score women’s golf, age 60 to 64, with a 24.4-40 handicap, Harvey Horner won gross score gold for men age 70-74 with a 24.4-40 handicap, Bill Watson won bronze gross score for men between the ages of 75-79 with a handicap of 0-24.3 and Vic Dean a silver for gross score for golf for men between the ages of 75-79 with a 24.4-40 handicap.
Lillian Farkvam won bronze in gross score golf for women 65-69 with a handicap of 24.4-40.
In horseshoes, Bud Hallock won a bronze, Bob Price a gold, Rose Thomas a silver and Betty Demmitt a bronze in their respective age and class categories.
Cesario Ciffolilli won three bronzes for cycling in his age and class categories and Ernie Hidber a gold and a bronze for cycling.
Lynne Price won a bronze and Ellen Smith a silver for golf in their age and handicap categories. Jim MacDougall won silver in the 5,000 metre power walk for men age 80-84.
Karl Drahorad won silver in javelin for men age 80 to 84.
In team events, the Terrace team of Claudette LePlante and James MacKenzie won bronze in cribbage men and women 55+ pairs flight D- zone 4th place.
The bowling team of Lynne Apolczer, Nita Arnold, Henry Holleufer, Ken Rutsatz, Chris Olson and Kitimat players Tilly Bachmann and Marjorie Craven won gold in 5-pin bowling for men and women 55+ B division.
Ken Rutsatz won silver in high single scratch 5 pin bowling for men and women 55+ B division and gold in high single pins over average 5 pin bowling for the same age group. Henry Holleufer won silver in high single pins over average 5 pin bowling for the men and women 55+ B division.
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