Joyce national hammer champ again
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Updated: June 30, 2009 12:12 PM
Jennifer Joyce of Richmond won the Canadian women’s hammer throw title Sunday in Toronto with a toss of 69.05 metres.
Sultana Frizell of Perth, Ont., the Canadian record holder (71.64 set April 18 in Walnut, Calif.), was second with 68.00 metres.
Joyce, a member of the Richmond Kajaks Track and Field Club, still holds the Canadian meet record with a throw of 68.48 metres in 2005.
Kajaks Heather Warwick and Evan Dunfee, tuned up for this month’s world junior championships by winning the women’s and men’s 10,000 metre racewalks in 56 minutes, 9 seconds and 41:55 respectively.
Kajaks’ teammates Christabel Nettey, Angus Taylor, Trey Henderson and Shai Davis also impressed as they prepared for the world juniors July 8 to 12 in Italy. Nettey was fifth in the women’s long jump at 6.03 metres, Henderson seventh in the men’s hammer at 56.68 metres and Taylor ninth at 55.70 metres. Davis was eighth in the women’s 100 metres in 11.88 seconds (Krysha Bayley won in 11.80 seconds, the same time Davis ran at the recent Richmond Review Kajaks International Track Classic) and was eighth in the 200 metres in 24.33 seconds.
Kajak Kevin Lim placed 11th in the men’s 400 metre discus with a throw of 48.93 metres.
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