There was gold-a-plenty for Burnaby athletes at last week’s zone track and field championships.
Topping the senior podium on more than one occasion were Burnaby Central Wildcats' Maneesha Dhaliwal, Christina Heslop and Burnaby South Rebels' Katelyn Malmquist, while Isabella Brunoro and Brandon Hsu of Burnaby Mountain, Ryan Goudron of Burnaby Central, the Moscrop Panthers' Holden Clark and Burnaby South’s Lucas Herold achieved the feat in the junior division.
(Burnaby Central and Burnaby Mountain athletes’ results are posted below and also available in separate stories).
Malmquist captured the senior girls 100-metre race with a time of 13.51 seconds, and repeated the honour with the fastest time (27.54) in the 200m. Clark posted the best distance in junior boys long jump, with a leap of 5.92m, and won the triple jump (12.28m). En route to three gold medals, Herold established three new district records with his efforts in the discus (33.10m), shotput (14.45m) and hammerthrow (39.67m).
"As a Grade 9 thrower, (Herold) is competing exceptionally well and will continue to shine at provincials and next year as a Grade 10," remarked Burnaby South coach Talia Zacharias. "(Malmquist) enjoys racing and continues to race well even in the midst of the busy-ness of life."
Also among the champions were Alpha's Henry Ruckman-Utting (1st, jr. boys 3000m), Moscrop's Aaron Fung (1st, jr. boys 1500m racewalk), Burnaby North's Sophia Condilenios (1st, jr. girls 200m) and Andy Zhang (Gr. 8 boys javelin).
Most will head to provincials looking to keep the positive mojo going. The Rebels' Taya Batiste, who missed the zone championships due to injury but swept 100- and 200m dash in the districts, is looking to repeat as last year's B.C. junior girls 100m champ.
The zone, which pits schools from Burnaby, New West and Richmond in a meet of Grade 8, junior and senior divisions, resulted in Burnaby Central claiming another aggregate banner covering the three divisions.
Burnaby Central posted the second-best aggregate score in the senior competition, accumulating 151 combined points between the girls and boys divisions. New West topped the seniors with 176 points.
Burnaby Mountain posted the best aggregate score in the junior division, accumulating a landslide 231 combined points between the girls and boys division. Led by a strong girls squadron, who compiled 146 points, Burnaby Mountain edged city rival Burnaby Central, which tallied 200 points.
At last weekend's multi-sport championships, the Rebels' Youney Terefe finished ninth in the octathon, despite picking up a number of the events for the first time.
Here are the top-5 results from the zone championships: GIRLS, Senior – Kate Bain, BMtn 5th 100; Samiksha Chand, BMtn 2nd 100h, 3rd 400h; Le Yi Deng, BS 3rd LJ; Maneesha Dhaliwal, BC 1st 400, 100h, HJ; Christina Heslop, BC 1st 1500, 3000, 1500st; Nicole Liang, BMtn 4th 800, 3000; Zuzanna Liniewski BN 2nd HJ; Katelyn Malmquist, BS 1st 100, 200; Nuzhat Rahman, BC 2nd 3000, 1500st, 4th 1500. Junior – Simran Aujla, BC 4th HT; Isabella Brunoro, 1st 3000, 1500st, 2nd 1500; Kiera Cheng, BN 2nd disc, SP; Sophia Condilenios, BN 1st 200, 4th 400; Amber Craig, BMtn 4th disc; Priya Dhaliwal, BC 1st HJ, 2nd LJ, 5th 300h; Elisa Geitner, BMtn 1st 1500rw, 4th SP; Shabnam Ghulam, BN 2nd TJ; Kaitlyn Heslop, BC 3rd 3000, 1500st, 4th 1500; Hana Hoffman, BN 4th 3000, 1500st; Lindsay Hoffman, BMtn 1st 80h; Kelsey Kanyamuna, AL 5th 400; Phoebe Lao, BC 3rd 80h, 4th TJ; Maddie Lau, BC 3rd 1500rw, 5th 3000; Stephanie Lim, BMtn 3rd 800, 300h, 4th 80h; Teodora Lojpur, BMtn 1st jav, 2nd 80h, 4th 300h; Faith Mah, BN 5th TJ; Alysha Sidhu, BC 2nd 1500rw, 3rd HT; Vivian Truong, BMtn 4th jav, 5th SP; Hannah Vorell, BMtn 3rd 100, 400. Gr. 8 – Olivia Cholette, MOS 4th 200, 5th 100; Reanna Gandhi, BS 3rd 800; Lindsay Gourdon, BC 1st disc, SP, 4th jav; Anglea Guo, BC 1st 80h; Sarah Juett, BC 3rd HJ; Tia Kinkar, ByC 2nd 800; Robin Rohu, BC 1st 200h, 2nd 100, 400; Sienna Yee, BC 2nd 200, 3rd 400; Jenny Zhang, BN, 3rd jav.
BOYS, senior – Kosta Adzic, BMtn 1st 800, 2nd 1500, 3000; Pietro Carnivale, AL 1st SP; Ryan Chao, BC 3rd HJ, 4th TJ; Taylor Chia, BC 5th 800; Gavin Fettes, BC 4th LJ; Cameron Fung, BS 2nd 2000st, 4th 1500; Constantine Georgas, AL 3rd 100, 5th 200; Shea Janke, BS 1st 2000st, 4th 3000; Brayden Kayode, BMtn 2nd LJ; David Ligocki, BC 3rd 400; Thomas Luong, BMtn 1st jav, 4th SP; Ryan Roberts, BMtn 5th 3000; Nathan Quan, MOS 3rd jav; Gavin Theys, BC 3rd 2000st; Kenneth Usugiagi, MOS 4th jav; Alistair Yeung, BMtn 3rd LJ, TJ; Daniel Yu, BC 1st 400h. Junior – Miguel Arteaga-Cole, BN 2nd SP; Holden Clark, MOS 1st LJ, TJ; Sheldon Dacon, MOS 2nd 100, 200; Liam Farbridge, MOS 2nd jav, 4th 800; Aaron Fung, MOS 1st 1500rw; Ryan Goudron, BC 1st 400, 800, 1500st; Lucas Herold, BS 1st disc, SP, HT; Brandon Hsu, BMtn 1st 100, 200, 2nd 400; Niklas Iwan, BS 5th 800; Joseph Marion, BS 2nd HT, 3rd jav; Haruki Okamoto, BMtn 2nd 800, 3rd 1500; Quinn O’Shea, BC 3rd 1500st; Henry Ruckman-Utting, AL 1st 3000, 2nd 1500, 1500st; Owen Silvester, BC, 3rd SP, 4th disc; Sebastyan Szymanski, BC 3rd 400, LJ; Marcus Taylor, BC 1st jav; Arjun Uppul, BC 1st 300h; Kiran Wanniarachchi, BMtn 1st HJ. Gr. 8 – Joseph Anderson, ByC 5th 1500; Kendall Drager, ByC 3rd SP; Ethan Johnson, BC 3rd 400; Gabriel Kamal, BMtn 5th jav; Eric Li, BS 3rd TJ; Brendan Lim, BMtn 2nd 400, 4th 200, 5th 100; Ryan Liu, ByC 2nd LJ; Justin Mangilin, BS 2nd 100h, TJ; Vincent Nguyen, BC 1st 100h, 3rd 200; Dave Trinidad, BS 2nd 200, 3rd 100; Andy Zhang, BN 1st jav.
