• BC’s Wheelchair Athletics Team Medals at Nationals

  • massive-dev  |  July 31, 2019

Team BC competed at the 2019 Canadian Track and Field Championships, July 25-28 in Montreal and came back with eight medals. 

Seated Thrower Dakoda Darling (Coquitlam) medaled in all three of his events. He won a gold in Discus, and bronze medals in Javelin and Shot Put. Teammate Eddy Solla (Vancouver) added a silver in Discus and Jessye Brockway (Victoria) brought home a silver in the Women’s Seated Javelin. 

On the track, Tristan Smyth (Maple Ridge) won bronze medals in the 800M,1500M and 5,000M races. Despite missing the podium, Balraj Zimich (Richmond) posted some strong results including a personal best in the 100M.

 

Full Results 

THURSDAY JULY 25TH, 2019

MEN’S 200M T54 (FINALS)

Balraj Zimich / 6th place / 30.87

WOMEN’S SEATED SHOT PUT

Jessye Brockway (F57) / 6th place / 6.20m

MEN’S SEATED DISCUS

Dakoda Darling (F57) / 1st place / 31.97m

Eddy Solla (F34) / 2nd place / 24.12m (PB)

Daryl Yuen (F57) / 6th place / 18.42m

MEN’S SEATED SHOT PUT

Dakoda Darling (F57) / 3rd place / 8.73m

Eddy Solla (F34) / 4th place / 7.10m

Daryl Yuen (F57) / 8th place / 5.26m

MEN’S 5000M T53-54 (FINALS)

Tristan Smyth (T54) / 3rd place / 11:19.79

FRIDAY JULY 26TH, 2019

MEN’S SEATED JAVELIN

Dakoda Darling (F57) / 3rd place / 22.22m (PB)

Daryl Yuen (F57) / 8th place / 11.42m

MEN’S 1500M T34-53-54 (FINALS)

Tristan Smyth (T54) / 3rd place / 3:19.09

WOMEN’S SEATED JAVELIN

Jessye Brockway (F57) / 2nd place / 13.61m

MEN’S 100M T54 (PRELIMS)

Balraj Zimich (T54) / 4th place / 17.04 (PB)

MEN’S 100M T33-34-51-53-54 (FINALS)

Balraj Zimich (T54) / 6th place / 17.34

SATURDAY JULY 27TH, 2019

WOMEN’S SEATED DISCUS

Jessye Brockway (F57) / 5th place / 18.90m

MEN’S 800M T54 (FINALS)

Tristan Smyth (T54) / 3rd place / 1:43.76

Balraj Zimich (T54) / 7th place / 2:12.18

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