Redcliff’s Mickey repeats with medal at national track champs

By Sean Rooney on July 5, 2018.

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Redcliff para-athlete Sarah Mickey holds up the flag at an Invictus Games ceremony in August 2017. Mickey won silver in seated discus and seated javelin on Thursday, July 5, 2018 at the national track and field championships, one day after winning silver in seated shot put.

Medicine Hat News

Sarah Mickey is again a national track and field medallist.

The Redcliff para-athlete won silver in the seated shot put at the Canadian championships Wednesday, throwing farther than anybody in her division except that once her level of disability was factored in, she was just shy of top spot.

Ontario’s Pamela Lejean took first with a throw of 4.76 but a RAZA score of 914. It’s the RAZA that matters to the event results.

Mickey, from Redcliff, had a best throw of 6.66 metres on her last attempt, giving her a RAZA of 763.

Mickey is also entered in the para discus and javelin, both of which take place today.

Nationals are in Ottawa, where Mickey took bronze in shot put and silver in javelin a year ago.