Michael Valiante started at the back of a 50-car field and drove his Corvette prototype sports car to within podium contention at the Road America Showcase.
Valiante passed off to co-driver Richard Westbrook with the car in fifth place before a final fourth-place finish in the Tudor United SportsCar championship in Elkhart, Wisconsin last Friday.
Valiante and Westbrook are currently in third place just 18 points behind co-leaders Joao Barbosa and Christian Fittipaldi in the overall driver’s standings.
Silver swimmer
(Stefan Milosevic)
Stefan Milosevic of Burnaby won a silver medal at the British national swim championships in Sheffield, England last weekend.
The Cariboo Hill Secondary grad, swimming for the UBC Dolphin’s Swim Club, placed second in a time of 50.35 seconds in the 19-and-over men’s 100-metre freestyle behind recent double Commonwealth Games gold medallist Ben Proud of Great Britain.
The 19-year-old University of British Columbia sophomore also made the 400m free final where he placed 10th. Milosevic also finished fourth in his heat in the 200m free and 12th in the 50m free heats.
A pair of silvers
Burnaby sprinter Whitney Rowe won a pair of second-place medals for Canada at the North American, Central American and Caribbean under-23 track and field championships in Kamloops.
Rowe shared the silver medal with Canada’s 4x100 and 4x400 metre women’s relay teams. She also finished fourth in the women’s 200m in a time of 23:97.
Canada had its best-ever showing at the u-23 championships, garnering 28 total medals, including six gold.
Women in final
(Magali Harvey)
Canada’s national women’s rugby team has gone where it’s never gone before.
Canada upset hosts France 18-16 in the semifinals to earn a berth in its first-ever Women’s World Cup final.
Burnaby Lake front row forward Kim Donaldson was named to the starting lineup for the Canadians.
Women’s player of the year nominee Magali Harvey scored a spectacular second-half try for Canada, scampering 80 metres for score. Harvey added the two-point conversion that stood up as the game-winning points. She also kicked two penalty goals.
Canada will take on England in the Women’s World Cup final on Sunday.
Gold for Lakers
Burnaby Lake Rugby Club’s Connor Sampson and Taitusi Viklani shared a gold medal with the B.C. under-17 provincial team following a 35-10 victory over Quebec in the u-18 Tier two men’s national championship final in Calgary last weekend. Sampson scored two tries for B.C.
B.C.’s u-16 Blue team, including BLRC’s Chayanne Khodabandeh, Raphael Espejo and Dillon Cusker of New Westminter, just missed winning a bronze medal following a last-minute try by Ontario in a 17-12 loss in the consolation final.
Golden boot
(Kamron Habibullah)
Ten-year-old Kamron Habibullah helped lead the EDC FC under-13 boys’ soccer team to first place in the recent African Cup tournament.
Kamron scored eight goals for EDC and won the Golden Boot as the tournament top scorer.
“My dream is to be a professional soccer player in the future and play in Barcelona,” said Kamron.
A correction
There were some errors in the story AA Braves beaten on tiebreakin the Friday, Aug. 8 Burnaby NOW.
The Burnaby Braves baseball team in the story was actually competing in the AAA 15-and-under provincial championships in Rutland.
The photo was of the Burnaby Braves from the AA provincials held in Burnaby.
