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Airdrie swimmer leads Zone 2 with seven medals

Zone 2 captured 94 medals at last week’s Alberta Summer Games held in the Peace Region, good for third overall, with a good portion of the team’s 25 gold coming from Rocky View region athletes.
Airdrie’s Devon Chernow won seven medals at the Alberta Summer Games in the Peace Region, July 19-25: gold in 200-metre freestyle, 100 and 200-metre backstroke, as well
Airdrie’s Devon Chernow won seven medals at the Alberta Summer Games in the Peace Region, July 19-25: gold in 200-metre freestyle, 100 and 200-metre backstroke, as well as silver in the 200 and 400-metre medley relay, 400-metre freestyle and 400-metre individual medley.

Zone 2 captured 94 medals at last week’s Alberta Summer Games held in the Peace Region, good for third overall, with a good portion of the team’s 25 gold coming from Rocky View region athletes.

Airdrie’s Devon Chernow led the contingent with three gold medals in the pool. Competing in the 13-14 age group, he won the 100- and 200-metre backstroke as well as the 200-metre freestyle.

He also won silver in the 400-metre freestyle, 400-metre individual medley (IM), the 200-metre medley relay (MR) and the 400-metre MR.

Zone 2, which sent 340 athletes to Peace River and Grimshaw, July 19-25, claimed the gold medal in male lacrosse. Airdrie’s Eric Dowie, Jordan Erlandson, Paolo Falzi, Ben Kriwokon, Jared Lee and Steven Young, Cochrane’s Matthew Taylor, Nolan Morrison and Jesse Chong, along with Chestermere’s Dusten Peterson and Ben Kilbride from Redwood Meadows, all brought home medals in the event.

Airdrie’s Andrea Gibson earned three silver medals in the pool, after placing second in the age 13-14 200-metre butterfly, and the 200 and 400-metre freestyle races.

Christina Ulrich, also from Airdrie, took home silver in the age 13-14 BMX race.

Bragg Creek’s Vollmerhaus brothers Lukas and Jacob also performed exceptionally well in the canoe and kayak competition. Lukas won gold in 15-17 male K-1 wildwater and earned bronze, along with Jacob, in both the mixed C-2 slalom and the mixed slalom team race.

Molly-Jane Strum, also from Bragg Creek, took gold in the relay 1 team event in mountain biking and placed second in the age 11-15 female mountain bike race.

Athletes from the town of Cochrane took home a number of medals as well. Erik Nusl, competing in the age 11-12 swimming events, won six medals: gold in the 50-metre freestyle and bronze in the 50-metre butterfly, 200 and 400-metre freestyle and 200 and 400-metre MR.

Connor Matthezing claimed gold in the male age 13-14 200-metre freestyle, silver in 100-metre butterfly, 200-metre IM and 400-metre freestyle, as well as bronze in the 200-metre butterfly.

Other athletes from Cochrane placing in the top three were Ghislaine Joudrie, on the gold medal female water polo team; Ashley Heavenor, on the gold-winning female beach volleyball team; Tyson Soloski and Brandon Harrison, on the second-place male rugby team; William Joudrie, on the second-place male water polo team and Alexis Giannelia, who claimed silver in the U17 female 400-metre sprint.

Chestermere’s top athlete was swimmer Stephanie Churcher, who won gold in the age 11-12 400-metre IM. Swimmer Robyn Hays was Crossfield’s best performer, earning fourth in the age 13-14 400-metre MR, fifth in the 200-metre butterfly and sixth in the 100-metre butterfly.

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