Tom Dickson of Burnaby won two silver medals in sprints at the recent World Masters Athletics outdoor track and field championships in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Dickson, the current sprints coach at Simon Fraser University, finished in a time of 12:27, less than two-tenths of a second behind race winner Stephen Peters of Great Britain in the 60 to 64 men’s 100 metres.
He also placed runner-up to Peters in the 200m in a time of 25:93 after qualifying fourth in the semifinals.
Eighth in dance
Burnaby figure skater Nicole Orford and partner Thomas Williams finished eighth in the ice dance at the Grand Prix Trophee Bompard in Paris last weekend.
Orford, a Moscrop Secondary grad, and Williams garnered a total of 119.60 points, well off the couple’s personal best score of 139.10 achieved at the Four Continents championships earlier this year.
Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won the event with first-place scores in both the short and final programs.
