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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
Another day, another two silver medals for Redcliff’s Sarah Mickey.
At the Canadian Track and Field Championships in Ottawa Thursday, Mickey again had the best throw distance-wise of the competition, but when adapted ability levels were factored in the Bulldogs Club member wound up second.
In the seated para category, Mickey threw her discus 20.23 metres, a huge improvement over her seeded distance of 18.60 metres. Pamela Lejean, originally from Nova Scotia but now training in Ontario, won the event. She didn’t match her seeded score, but her 12.35-metre effort on the last attempt was enough for a modified RAZA score of 924, edging out Mickey’s 823.
It was the same story in javelin, where Mickey threw 12.64 metres (RAZA 484) while Lejean threw 10.60 metres (RAZA 844).
Mickey also took silver to Lejean in shot put Wednesday.
The Eagle Butte high school graduate won silver and bronze in last year’s nationals. She was formerly a figure skater before contracting lyme disease, which resulted in her partial paralysis.
