Burnaby Barracuda's Martina Blazevic and year-round swimmer Mei Stark won four individual races each at the Burnaby Barracudas annual Grand Prix summer swim meet at Central Park outdoor pool last weekend.
Blazevic won all her races in Division 1, including the 50-and 100-metre freestyle, 50m breaststroke and 100m individual medley. Stark won the same four disciplines at the O category 1 level.
Blazevic and Stark tied in 23rd place in the meet's individual point rankings.
Div. 4 Barracuda Garrett Yeo was the highest-placing Burnaby swimmer, garnering 90.50 points at the two-day meet.
Div. 3 Octavia Lau was also high on the list, winning the 50m butterfly and 100m free and IM, while placing second in the 50m breast.
Bryan Yu was the highest placing Burnaby Mountain Manta club swimmer, placing 27th out of more than 250 swimmers at the meet. Yu won three gold in Div. 5 boys' 50m fly and 100m free and breast. Yu was also second in the 100m backstroke.
Mantas' Harvey Lee won three Div. 4 boys' events, including a dead-heat for first with Brian Jung of Port Coquitlam in the 200m IM. Lee also won the 50m free and fly.
Barracuda Rowan Cheung was a four-event medallist, taking runner-up in the Div. 4 boys' 50 and 100m free and 50m breast. He also came third in the 200m IM.
Div. 2 girl Hannah Cui also medalled in four events for the Mantas. Cui won the 50m fly and 100m free, was second in the 100m IM and third in the 50m back.
Four other Burnaby club swimmers were double gold medallists.
Giancarlo Marquez won the Div. 1 boys' 50m free and fly, while placing second in the 100m free for the host Barracudas.
Jacky Tung of the Mantas won the Div. 6 boys' 50 and 100m fly and was second in the 50m free.
Barracuda clubber Paige Catlin won the Div. 6 girls' 100m breast and 200m IM. She was also third in the 50m free.
Cayden Liang won the Div. 1 boys' 50m breast and 100m free.
Multi-medalists also winning gold were Barracudas Xavier Lau, Maggie Chen, Jakub Vincalek and Henry McKenzie, and Mantas Vincent Chung, Ethan Xue and Yeo.
Also winning gold were Bryan Huynh, Natalia Blazevic, Zennea Chen, Maria Sulaver and Zian Field from the host club and Kenneth Ng from the Mantas.
Other Burnaby medallists included Kaitlyn Raquepo, Nicole Ticea, Boris Zhang, Lauren Sartori, Elton Lai, Mabel Ng, D.J. Tsang, Shalynn Lee, Aaron Cheung, Nickolas Sachinidis, Randy Ho, Kurtis Li, Deanna Dang, Alessia Marquez, Christopher Ng, Desiree Wu, Kevin Wei, Derek Shi and Bryan Cheung.
The Barracudas placed second, ahead of the Mantas, at the meet behind White Rock in combined team scores. The host club also doubled the North Burnaby club 27 to 13 in individual gold medals.
Local clubs compete at weekly meets, culminating at district regional championship meet in Coquitlam in August.
The B.C. championships will also be hosted by Coquitlam at Spani Pool from Aug. 16 to 18.
