MEDAL HAUL REACHES 22 AT PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Members of the York University Lions track and field team combined to win 22 medals at the recent Athletics Ontario junior/senior championships last weekend (Aug. 14-15) in Sudbury.
Seven Lions student-athletes competing at the meet came home with multiple medals. Climbing on the podium three times each were third-year thrower Cynthia Appiah (Etobicoke, Ont.) and incoming recruit Justine Vidal (South River, Ont.), who each picked up a silver and two bronze medals. Appiah finished second in the senior shot and third in the discus and hammer, while Vidal claimed the same medals in the junior category.
Another rookie, Katie Klodnicki (Grimsby, Ont.) was crowned champion in two events as she won gold in the junior discus and hammer throw events.
Throwers Kristin Obrochta (Mississauga, Ont.) and Elizabeth Petrov (Richmond Hill, Ont.) each won a gold and silver medal. Obrochta won the gold in the senior hammer throw and Petrov emerged victorious in the senior shot put.
Rounding out the list of Lions who recorded multiple podium finishes are Eric Braithwaite (Brampton, Ont.) and Daniel Novia. Braithwaite won silver medals in the junior shot put and hammer throw and added a seventh-place finish in the discus, while Novia captured silver in the senior hammer and bronze in the senior shot.
The complete list of Lions medallists is as follows:
Gold Medallists
Katie Klodnicki – junior discus throw (39.18m),
junior hammer throw (43.00m)
Ingvar Mosely – junior 110-metre hurdles (14.43m)
Kristin Obrochta – senior hammer throw (52.31m)
Elizabeth Petrov – senior shot put (14.29m)
Dontae Richards-Kwok – senior 200 metres (21.51)
Silver Medallists
Cynthia Appiah – senior shot put (14.10m)
Eric Braithwaite – junior shot put (14.06m), junior hammer
throw (50.41m)
Ryan Finn – senior 1500 metres (3:50.79)
Tyrone Halstead – senior 100 metres (10.65)
Justin Massar – junior javelin (56.50m)
Daniel Novia – senior hammer throw (57.55m)
Kristin Obrochta – senior discus throw (36.77m)
Elizabeth Petrov – senior hammer throw (49.66m)
David St. Bernard – senior triple jump (13.95m)
Justine Vidal – junior shot put (11.08m)
Bronze Medallists
Cynthia Appiah – senior discus throw (34.96m),
senior hammer throw (49.22m)
Daniel Novia – senior shot put (16.09m)
Justine Vidal – junior discus throw (33.94m), junior hammer
throw (30.89m)
Top 10s
Eric Braithwaite – 7th place, junior
discus throw (37.03m)
Sarah Katz – 5th place, senior 400 metres
(56.98)
Umar Khan – 5th place, senior shot put (15.29m),
7th place, senior discus throw (26.60m)
Daniel Novia – 6th place, senior discus throw
(35.69m)
Kristin Obrochta – 5th place, senior shot put
(12.67m)
Richard Parkinson – 4th place, senior javelin
throw (48.40m)
Alessandra Tartaglia – 4th place, junior pole
vault (2.60m)
The outdoor season is now over for the Lions, and after a few weeks rest they will return to the gym to begin training for the upcoming indoor season. Track and field competition across the OUA will begin in November.
