Churchill Bulldog Stephanie Cho came from behind to win the senior girls 400 metre hurdles at the B.C. track and field championships and then accepted her hardware from Thelma Wright, a middle-distance runner, Olympian and Churchill alumna. Both were Churchill valedictorians.
Cho broke a 2005 record in the event by clocking in at 1 minute and 0.09 seconds. She shaved 0.18 seconds off the record and beat her opponent from Maple Ridge, whose second-place time was also under the record.
In the seven-event senior girls heptathlon, Cho took home bronze for the Bulldogs.
Andrew De Visser also had a tremendous showing for Prince of Wales and won gold in the senior boys 110m hurdles and long jump.
He ran 15.04 in the preliminary heat and won the final in 14.86. Jackson Cheung won bronze for Thompson in 14.97.
De Visser, a Grade 12 student, out jumped the competition by 16 centimetres to win the long jump. He cleared 6.93 metres in his best jump.
Killarney’s race walk team hauled in three medals for the Cougars. Kyra Danielson, a Grade 8 student, won the senior girls 1,500m racewalk in 7:24.64 while tammates Erik Thies and Alger Liang won gold and silver, respectively. Thies finished in 7:02.65 and Liang in 7:14.97.
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»College won the prestigious senior boys 4x100m relay. They qualified in 43.52 and won in 43.04 ahead of Mouat secondary who crossed the line in 43.92.
Sebastian Yep tied for fourth in the pole vault after he cleared 3.30m and came fifth in the hammer throw for a distance of 43.2m. Matteus Yep threw 40.42m to finish sixth in the hammer throw.
Jessica Hanson won silver for Little Flower Academy in the high jump by clearing 1.65m, 10cm behind winner from New Westminster secondary.
LFA teammate Sophie Pauls was fourth in the senior girls long jump (5.14m) and seventh in high jump (1.50m).
West Point Grey Academy senior girls relay won silver in the 4x400m. Sophie Dodd was fourth in the 800m (2:15.77), Katherine Lucas fourth in the 200m (25.95) and Audrey Warner fourth in the 3000m (10:22.24).
Kitsilano thrower Mackenzie Millward was fourth in shot put (10.29m), ninth in discus (27.92m) and ninth in javelin (31.57m).
Hamber sprinter Conny Bregman finished sixth in the 100m dash (13.05) and sixth in the 200m (26.40).
Windermere sprinter Azariah John finished the 100m sprint in 11.38. Two competitors ran under 11 seconds to win gold and silver.
