By rdnewsNOW staff

Alberta wins 10 medals Thursday at Canada Winter Games

Feb 22, 2019 | 10:02 AM

Thursday was another great day for Team Alberta at the 2019 Canada Winter Games with home province athletes racking up 10 more medals.

Alberta swimmers won two gold medals on the last day of competition in artistic swimming at the pool of the Repsol Centre in Calgary.

The morning session saw Jamie Czarkowski of Calgary win the gold medal in the solo event by posting the top score of 158.0165 points. Later in the day, Team Alberta secured a second gold medal in the team event (Kelsey Ayers, Elizabeth Battista, Dana Brunskill, Jaime Czarkowski, Natalie Greenfield, Teah Hoffmann, Camryn Hooey, Adora Kruger, Rosemary Stuart, and Kiana Sweet).

Coach Jenn Tregale was excited for the performances this week: “I cannot be more proud of this talented group of girls. They all brought their A game this week. It was awesome to have the full crowd here supporting us. It certainly adds a little bit of extra pressure to compete at home, but the girls rose to the occasion.”

Young Gymnast Montana Fairbairn excelled in the artistic gymnastics event at the Collicutt Centre. Competing in the floor routine, the 16-year-old athlete from Strathmore scored 9.537 points for the gold medal. This medal is Montana’s second medal of these Canada Winter Games, having earned the bronze medal in the team event.

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Fairbairn’s gold medal also represents the first time a female Alberta gymnast win the gold in the floor routine. She is the first female gymnast to have earned the gold medal since 2007 when Kelsey Lang won gold for Alberta in the beam event.

Team Alberta swept the women’s podium of the women’s 10km individual biathlon event at River Bend, with Jenna Sherrington of Calgary earning the gold medal, Pascale Paradis silver medal and Karly Coyne took the bronze medal.

“I definitely took a few extra breaths in the shooting range. My zero was very centered, very clean so I just took it very carefully in the range,” said Sherrington after the race.

In the men’s 12.5 km distance, Haldan Borglum of Calgary won a tight sprint for third place to earn the bronze medal for Team Alberta.

Team Alberta took part in three table tennis bronze-medal matches in the doubles events. In the Mix Doubles, Alberta went on to defeat 3-1 Team Manitoba for the bronze medal.

Alberta also won gold in wheelchair basketball in front of a packed house at the Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre.

(With file from Team Alberta media release)