April Armstrong was Burnaby’s big winner at the B.C. Summer Games in Nanaimo last weekend.
The Special Olympics athlete won three gold medals and one silver in track and field, including wins in the female 100 and 200 metres and long jump. The second-place medal came in the shot put.
Equestrian Kayden Bousfield won the Division D co-ed freestyle vaulting competition. Bousfeld also shared a bronze with Burnaby teammate Kathleen Maxim in the team event.
Claire Hein-Salvi won gold in the Tier 4/5 synchronized swimming figures. She also shared a bronze in the duet. Lianna Dall’Antonia won a bronze in the Tier 2/3 solo.
Sean Robertson won the 14/17 boys’ wakeskate in towed water sports.
Alex Fediaev placed third in 63-kilogram boys’ wrestling.
Ivan Rybkin was a runner-up in boys’ double elimination singles rowing. Rybkin claimed a gold in double sculls.
Samantha Loutet was a big winner on the water, placing third in the C1 girls’ 200m Learn to Train canoe race.
Loutet also medalled in four other race disciplines, including a gold with Marissa De Sandoli in the C2 girls’ 2,000m open. Samantha earned a silver medal with Katrina Loutet in the C2 girls’ Learn to train 500m. She also went home with a silver and a bronze in the C4 girls 500m canoe and K4 girls’ 500m kayak, respectively, with Katrina Loutet, Ula Langdon, Georgia Langdon and De Sandoli.
De Sandoli picked up a fourth medal with Burnaby teammates Edward Colhoun and Ivan Strashenko in the co-ed K4 open 500m kayak.
Ula and Georgia Langdon won the K2 girls’ Learn to Train 500m kayak.
Helena Zhou won a bronze medal in the girls’ 200m breaststroke.
Burnaby athletes went home with medals in more team events.
Brian Jung and Enoch Qin shared a silver medal with the Zone 4 boys’ basketball team.
Zone 4’s boys’ lacrosse team, including Burnaby’s Mackenzie Burns, Joshua DuMont, Tavin Grant and Lucas Greene, took the gold medal with a 5-4 upset win over B.C. Team-laden Fraser Valley.
Siaki Vikilani shared a silver medal with the Zone 4 boys’ rugby team.
Zachariah Thomas, Simone Masi, Deylen Vellios, Sebastian Pugliese, Luca Alberti, Damiano Pecile and Zakly Karim of Burnaby also earned a silver medal in under-13 boys’ soccer.
Lauren Gomez was the lone Burnaby player on Fraser River Delta’s runner-up girls’ softball team.
Jodi Reimer, Jhunam Sidhu and Pavita Sidhu shared a bronze medal in golf.
The Fraser River Delta team placed fourth overall at the Nanaimo Games, garnering 26 gold medals, 33 silver and 24 bronze.
The Zone 3 Fraser River team won the overall aggregate compiling 207 total points, including a Games-best 79 gold medals.
Vancouver Island-Central Coast finished overall runner-up with 183 points, including 75 gold.
Vancouver-Squamish placed in third spot.
