14 - Wednesday, March 9, 1994 - North Shore News

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Local alpine skiers shine

INSPIRED NO doubt by the
recent Lillehammer Winter
Games. North Shore skiers hauled
in their own share of tnedals at the
recent B.C. Juvenile (J2)
Technical Champion-ships at Red
Mountain in Rassland, B.C.

West Vancouver's Erika
Gibbons, a member of the
Whistler Mountain Ski Club,
swept the girls’ competition, win-
ning all four gold medals (two
Giant SJalom and two slalom).
Tyee Ski Club skier Julie Hardy,
of North. Vancouver, won a silver
medal in slalom, while West
Van's Mimi Meier won bronze in
the final slaloin event. Meier's

Whistler Ski Club teammate,
West Vancouver's Lisa Yeates
finished third in the second day of
Giant Slalom (GS) racing.

Sead Causevie of North
Vancouver, was the boys’ top
focal skier, winning a total of
three medals, The Whistler Ski
Club skier won gold in the first
GS event and added two bronze
medals over the two-day slalom
event. Gibbons, Hardy, Yeates
and Causevic will represent B.C.
at the National Championships in
Newfoundland next week.

There was also a strong show-
ing by North Shore athletes at the
Clearly Canadian J3 Super GS at

Blackcomb Mountain, featuring
It and 12-year-olds. The top local
athlete was Alison. Ma, of
Cypress Mountain, who finished a
close fourth on the challenging
GS course.

North Shore boys, most of
them 1] years old. took the top
two podium spots on the first day
of compctiton. Grouse Mountain
skier Trevor Bruce captured gold
while West Vancouver's Joe
Williams claimed the silver. On
the second day of competition,
Williams won gold in a race that
saw all five top racers separated
by just 1.37 seconds. Grouse Tyee
skier Bruce won the silver. ;

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