Peninsula athletes continued to thrive at the Canada Games right up until the final day, helping Team BC to a record medal haul.

South Surrey track and field star Katie Reid, who finished third in the girls 400-metres earlier in the Games – and her time gave her a new personal best, to boot – wrapped up her week with a relay gold medal, as part of B.C.'s girls team that finished first in the 4x400-m relay.

B.C.'s time of three minutes, 44.17 seconds was four-hundredths of a second quicker than second-place Alberta.

Swimmer Richard Weinberger, who won gold in the 800-m freestyle event during the first week of competition, added a second gold medal to his collection last weekend, taking top spot in the grueling 10-km open water swim in Prince Edward Island's Southwest River.

Weinberger's time of 2:03:57 was nearly two minutes ahead of second-place finisher Xavier Desharnais, of Quebec.

Former Semiahmoo Secondary volleyball captain Kyle Donen, who now plays for the Thompson Rivers University Wolfpack, also found his way to the podium on the final day of competition.

Donen, who plays libero, and his Team BC mates won bronze Saturday, defeating Manitoba 3-0 in the third-place game. The gold was won by Alberta.

In the bronze-medal win, Donen led B.C. defensively, with a team-high 12 digs.

The national event wrapped up Saturday, after 14 days of competition in P.E.I.

B.C. finished with 57 gold medals, 43 silver and 44 bronze – a 20 per cent increase in medals from the 2005 Games, which were held in Regina.

Peninsula runner Nigel Hole, 20, who runs at the University of B.C., won bronze as part of B.C.'s 4x400 relay team. Earlier in the Games, Hole finished 11th in the 800-m.

Earlier in the two-week long event, Peninsula athletes who found themselves on the podium included Elgin Park Secondary's Jenna Richardson and Semiahmoo's Nicole Ambrose and Nicole Setterlund, who were members of B.C.'s U18 girls soccer team that won gold over Quebec; Sally Hillier and Sarah Allison, who won silver in basketball; and Connor Dickie, Cole Coventry, Keaton Styles and Hayden McMullin, who won silver with B.C.'s U18 boys rugby team.

The team was also coached by Earl Marriott Secondary rugby coach Adam Roberts.

In the pool, diver Stephanie Hansen won bronze in the female three-metre synchronized event.