Burnaby Striders Zion Corrales-Nelson was the hit of the sprints at the recent B.C. Athletics championships in Kamloops. The junior St. Thomas More Collegiate sprinter won all the speed races in the 15-year-old girls' age group, including two new provincial midget records at Hillside Stadium.
The Burnaby flash won the 100-metre dash by seven-tenths of a second over the second-place girl Casey Heyd in a time of 12.12 seconds.
Corrales-Nelson added a gold in the 200m to her mantel, easily winning by almost two seconds over the runner-up Rebecca Terry of South Fraser in a new record time of 24.01, breaking Krysha Bailey's 1999 mark of 24.50.
The incoming STM junior also took gold in the 300m in a sub-four-minute 39.67 clocking, nipping New Westminster runner Raquel Tjernagel's 2012 midget mark by two onehundredths of a second. Corrales-Nelson was unchallenged in the race, beating Terry to the tape for a second time nearly two seconds ahead.
Burnaby sprinter Whitney Rowe won both the 100 and 200m for 20-plus women in Kamloops. Rowe was timed in 11.73 for the 100m and 24.36 in the 200m.
Ahmad Nizamani won the men's 16/17 long jump with a leap of 6.50m. He also ran a leg with Ethan Strome in the 4x100m relay for the first-place-finishing Vancouver Thunderbirds.
Curtis Moss won the men's 20-plus javelin with a 73.85m throw.
In the 18/19 men's 400m hurdles, STM's Sebastian Adugalski, running out of Ocean Athletics in Surrey, won the gold medal in a time of 55.96.
Byrne Creek Secondary student Jemal Reta placed second in the men's 16/17 division in the 2,000m steeplechase in a time of 6:13.91. Reta also finished in sixth place in the 3,000m
