The Ontario Summer Games, an annual multi-sport event for athletes between the ages of 12 and 18, kicked off last Thursday in Mississauga. The Lions were represented in the athletics competition by three athletes – Quinn Coughlin, Zachary Jeggo, and Matteo Padoin-Castillo. Combined the three athletes captured four individual medals including one gold.
Jeggo had a near perfect meet as he set new lifetime bests in all three of the events he competed in. This included a gold medal performance in the 200 metre hurdles where Jegoo broke Luca Nicolletti’s U16 Club record with his time of 26.34 seconds. The Louis-Riel student picked up a second medal, a bronze, in the U16 300 metres with his time of 37.57 seconds.
Jeggo’s final best came in the 200 metre heats where he posted a time of 23.74 seconds. He would finish seventh in the final in 23.91.
The other two medals came from Quinn Coughlin who took home a pair of bronze medals. The first came in the 300 metre event for Coughlin where she trimmed nearly half a second off her previous best with a 41.98 second clocking. Another personal best brought home the second medal as the Opeongo High School student dipped under 2:18 for the first time at 800 metres, to finish in two minutes and 17.92 seconds.
For Matteo, his results found him just off the podium as he took fourth in the U16 1500 metre steeplechase. His time of 4:58.08 was about a second and a half back of bronze. Padoin-Castillo also part in his first racewalk, finishing ninth in the 1500 metre event.