Travelling to Winnipeg's Boeing Track Meet, the Yorkton Legion Track Club continued their recent reputation for strong performances on the local and national level as two YLTC athletes have risen to the level of some of the top young Canadian track athletes nationwide.
Distance sprinter Jaden Porte and 200 meter sprinter Brendon Weber have both vaulted themselves into the Top 30 Canadian rankings with Porte ranking in the Top 5 in two events, impressive for the YLTC team that has been steadily growing over the last couple of years.
Porte is currently 4th in the country in the Youth 1,000 meters, 5th in the Youth 800 meters and 20th in his third event of the Youth 1,500 meters as the YRHS student has continued to build on an impressive 2013 where he succeeded both with the YLTC and on the high school circuit as a provincial medalist.
Weber cracked the Top 30 in the country for the first time after the Boeing meet, coming in with a 29th ranking in the Junior 200 meter sprint.
In total 11 athletes competed for the YLTC in Winnipeg with the highlights being a silver medal finish in the 4x400 meter relay competing against some of the best runners in the country.
Several YLTC athletes also came home with Top 5 finishes and strong efforts at a meet where medals were at a premium.
The complete YLTC results are:
- Youth Women 4x100 Relay, Seventh with a time of 1.01.19 with Miranda Elmy, Brittany Varga, Angel Asapace, and Dana Bocking.
- Youth Men 4x400 Relay Silver with a time of 3:39.81 with Haylen Langelier, Jaden Porte, Cole Burkholder, Mathew Johnson from Queen City Regina.
-Zoe Flaman: Eighth in Bantam Girls 800 meters with a time of 3:01.52
Eleventh in Bantam Girls 1200 meters with a time of 5:00.81
-Brittany Varga: Fourteenth in Midget Girls 800 meters with a time of 2:42.61
Twelfth in Midget Girls 1200 meters with a time of 4:26.20
-Angel Asapace: Nineteenth in Midget Girls 800 meters with a time of 3:04.54 Seventeenth in Midget Girls 1200 meters with a time of 4:50.54
-Dana Bocking: Twentieth in Youth Girls 200 meters with a time of 29.85
Fourth in Youth Girls Shot Put with a throw of 9.67 meters
Fifth in Youth Girls Long Jump with a jump of 4.49 meters
Miranda Elmy:Bronze in Youth Girls High Jump with a jump of 1.35 meters
Fourth in Youth Girls Triple Jump with a jump of 9.29 meters
Eleventh in Youth Girls Long Jump with a jump of 3.67 meters
-Ethan Field: Eleventh in Midget Boys 60 meters with a time of 7.86
Fourteenth in Midget Boys 20 meters with a time of 25.48
-Haylen Langelier: Tenth in Youth Boys 1500 meters with a time of 4:33.89
Sixth in Youth Boys 3000 meters with a time of 10:21.39
-Cole Burkholder: Seventh in Youth Boys 800 meters with a time of 2:04.50
Eighth in Youth Boys 1500 meters with a time of 4:30.64
-Jaden Porte: Bronze in Youth Boys 800 meters with a time of 1:57.75
Fourth in Youth Boys 1500 meters with a time of 4:12.39
-Anthony Judkins :Eighteenth in Youth Boys 800 meters with a time of 2:21.81
Twentieth in Youth Boys 1500 meters with a time of 5:02.44
-Brendon Weber: Fifth in Junior Boys 60 meters with a time of 7:46
Fourth in Junior Boys 200 meters with a time of 23.54.
