Track and field athlete Jarrett Chong came within a few metres of breaking meet record in javelin during the B.C. Summer Games in Abbotsford.
However, his 51.68 score was enough for a gold medal, one of three first-place performances the 15-year-old Port Coquitlam resident had at the Games.
Later in the week, he won the shot put event with a 16.24 and the hammer throw event with a 52.213 score.
Chong was not the only PoCo athlete to win gold last week.
Victoria Tocheva took first place in the girls 400 m, 200 m and 50 m freestyle swim, while taking silver in the 800 m and bronze in the 100 m.
Also in the pool, Coquitlam’s Kai Wing Kong won silver in the 1,500 m freestyle swim with a time of 17:34.47, while Grace Lin, also of Coquitlam, won bronze in the 200 m butterfly.
Meanwhile, Maleka Rostami snagged silver in the synchronized swimmer 13-15 year division and bronze in the solo event with a score of 64.391.
On the track, Jaden Severy won a pair of medals.
The Coquitlam athlete grabbed a silver in the boys 100 m with a time of 12.19 seconds and a silver in the 200 m with 23.61 seconds. Natasha Smigelski won bronze in the 800 m with a time of 2:22.3, while Carly Seeman won silver in the girls high jump with a score of 1.6 m.
Port Moody’s Jenevieve Patry-Smith won bronze in the girls shot put (11.67 m) and gold in javelin (39.44 m).
Three Coquitlam wrestlers also left Abbotsford with medals last week.
Kyle Mills won silver in the 51 kg weight class, while Hunter Joseph took silver and Harris Valdes took bronze in the 57 kg event.
Rachel Whitemore won two silvers and a gold in the three equestrian events at the games, while Mika Asano took silver in the open canoe kayak competition. Other Tri-City medal winners include Jacob Haddon, who won bronze in both the jump and wakeskate during the towed water sports competition, and Port Moody’s Sara Stone, who took silver in the sailing event.
