UPEI Panthers swimmers Janet Gamble and Eric Beaton returned to P.E.I. with hardware from the weekend’s Atlantic University Sport swimming championship in Halifax.
Gamble, a fifth-year senior in science, won gold medals in the women’s 50-metre butterfly in a time of 27.88 seconds and the women’s 50-metre freestyle in 26.02, setting new Canadian Interuniversity Sport swimming records in both events.
Beaton, a fourth-year business student, tied for second (23.83) in the men’s 50-metre freestyle and earned a silver medal.
Charlottetown native Paige Crowell, a freshman science student at host Dalhousie University, won gold in the women’s 200-metre breaststroke in a CIS record time of 2:35.37.
Molly Wedge of Summerside swam the first leg of Dal’s women’s 800-metre relay gold-medal winning team.
She finished second to Gamble in the women’s 50-metre butterfly (28.48) and third to Gamble in the women’s 50-metre freestyle (26.30).
Cornwall’s Rhea Hurnik placed fifth in the women's 50-metre butterfly.
Dal won the men’s and women’s team titles and the combined swimming title.
Full championship results at
www.atlanticuniversitysport.com
