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Weekend Sports Preview–JULY 28-29–ALL OLYMPICS

Friday, July 27th, 2012

Ryder Hesjedal (Wikimedia Commons)

SATURDAY, JULY 28

3:00 a.m.—Men’s Cycling Road Race—Ryder Hesjedal—Victoria—(TSN)

3:10 a.m.—Men’s Eights Rowing Heats (CTV)

3:30 a.m.—Men’s Double Sculls Rowing Heats—Michael Braithwaite—Duncan, British Columbia & Kevin Kowalyk—Winnipeg (CTV)

3:34 a.m.—Women’s 100m Butterfly Swimming Heats—Audrey Lacroix—Montreal (RDS, www.ctvolympics.ca)

3:52 a.m.—Men’s 400m Freestyle Swimming Heats—Ryan Cochrane—Victoria (RDS, www.ctvolympics.ca)

4:00 a.m.—Women’s Basketball—Canada vs. Russia (CTV)

4:00 a.m.—Men’s Individual Artistic Gymnastics—Nathan Gafuik—Calgary (Sportsnet)

5:00 a.m.—Men’s Pairs Heats—Dave Calder—Victoria & Scott Frandsen—Kelowna (OLN)

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Tags: 2012 olympic games, annie martin, audrey lacroix, basketball, brent hayden, clara hughes, colin russell, cycling, dave calder, denise ramsden, diving, doug vandor, emilie heymans, grace gao, gymnastics, jennifer abel, jillian tyler, joelle numainville, josh binstock, judo, julia wilkinson, kevin kowalyk, lindsay jennerich, marie andree lessard, martin reader, michael braithwaite, michael tayler, morgan jarvis, nathan gafuik, patricia obee, richard hortness, rowing, ryan cochrane, ryder hesjedal, scott frandsen, sinead russell, Soccer, Swimming, tera van beilen, thomas gossland, toby ng, weightlifting
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Fifteen Albertans to compete at the 2012 Olympic Games in London

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012

Erin McLeod (Wikimedia Commons)

Team Canada’s Olympic roster is set and there are 15 representing the province of Alberta out of the 264 athletes representing our nation.

Does that total seem rather low to you? That is only 5.7% of the total athletes representing Canada are Albertan. Should we be sending more? Possibly, but for now let’s celebrate the Albertans who are going.

Out of the 15, seven are from Calgary.

Kayaker Mark de Jonge has probably the best chance to medal. He finished in sixth place at the 2011 World Championships in the men’s 200m. De Jong will be joined by gymnast Nathan Gafuik, badminton player Grace Gao, track athlete Akeem Haynes, cyclist Monique Sullivan, swimmer Jillian Tyler (women’s 100m breaststroke), and Michael Tayler in kayaking slalom.

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Tags: 2012 olympic games, akeem haynes, athletics, badminton, basketball, canoeing, cycling, diving, eric sehn, erin mcleod, fencing, grace gao, gymnastics, hammer throwing, heather steacy, jillian tyler, jim steacy, mark de jonge, michael tayler, michelle plouffe, monique sullivan, nathan gafuik, paula findlay, richard hortness, sherraine schalm, Soccer, Swimming, triathlon
Posted in Amateur Sports, Soccer |

Gafuik wins second medal at World University Games

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

Nathan Gafuik (Bing Images)

Canada’s most successful athlete at the 2011 World University Games in Shenzhen,China has been a Calgarian.

On Tuesday, Calgary’s Nathan Gafuik won his second individual medal of the competition, by winning a silver in the men’s vault. Yesterday, the 26 year-old out of the University of Calgary won a bronze medal in the men’s individual all-around competition.

Gafuik posted a score on the vault of 16.112. Flavius Koczi of Romania won gold with a score of 16.237 and Ran Cheng of China won bronze with a score of 16.075.

Gafuik also finished four in the horizontal bar, sixth in the parallel bars and seventh in the floor exercise.

Canada only has two medals in the entire Games so far and both have come from Gafuik.

In men’s volleyball, Calgary’s Rudy Verhoeff recorded two aces as Canada defeated Norway 25-20, 25-18, 25-14 to improve to 3-0 in the round robin. Team Canada will play Australia tomorrow.

In the women’s 400m, Calgary’s Amonn Nelson advanced to the semi-finals after posting a time of 53.56.

Tags: amonn nelson, flavius koczi, nathan gafuik, ran cheng, rudy verhoeff, world university games
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Gafuik wins bronze at the World University Games

Monday, August 15th, 2011

Nathan Gafuik (Bing Images)

Canada’s first medal at the 2011 World University Games in Shenzhen, China, came from a Calgarian.

On Monday, Nathan Gafuik won bronze in the Men’s Individual All-Around artistic gymnastics’ competition.

Gafuik’s best apparatuses were the horizontal bar and the vault. He posted the highest score in each discipline, a 16.05 in the vault and a 15.15 in the horizontal bar. He also placed second to Japan’s Ryuzo Sejima in the floor exercise and third to eventual silver medallist Shoichi Yamamoto and Sejima in the parallel bars.

The pommel horse and the rings were a struggle for Gafuik, as he failed to reach the 14 point mark for each discipline.

The Gold medallist was Mykola Kuksenkov of the Ukraine with 89.05 total points. Yamamoto was in second with 88.9 total points, followed by Gafuik with 88.35 points. Casey Sandy of Brampton, Ontario finished in seventh place.

The Games began on August 11 and end on August 23.

Tags: casey sandy, gymnastics, mykola kuksenkov, nathan gafuik, ryuzo sejima, shoichi yamamoto, world university games
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