The best short track speed skating athletes will be in Greater Sudbury this week, competing at the 2007 Canadian Open Short Track Championship.
The event, hosted by the Sudbury Sprinters Speed Skating Club,
is being held at the Countryside Arena from Jan. 18 to 20.
Canada's Top 32 women and Top 32 men will race for gold and a
chance to make Canada's national squad for future World Cup and
other international events leading up to the 2010 Olympic
Winter Games (OWG) in Vancouver.
Event passes are $24 for adults and $12 for children 12 and
under.
Passes are available at Records on Wheels and Pro Am
Sportswear. Event and day passes are also available at the door
of Countryside.
The championship will showcase the "who's who" in Canadian
speed skating. Competing in the events will be stars such as
Charles Hamelin, Kalyna Roberge, Amanda Overland and
Francois-Louis Tremblay.
Hamelin won a silver medal in relay at the 2006 OWG and
currently holds the Canadian record in the 500-metre.
Roberge also won a silver medal at the 2006 OWG in the relay and was fourth in the 500-m. Overland took a silver medal at the 2006 OWG in relay as well and holds the Canadian record in the 1000-m. Tremblay won two silver medals at the 2006 OWG in the 500-m and relay events.
