Junior World Cup Regional Championships

Sisters Tori and Josie Spence, both local members of the River City Racers Speed Skating Club, competed at their first Junior World Cup Regional Championships over the weekend in Calgary. The top 5 National skaters from Canada, United States, Romania and Poland took part. Tori finished third in the 3k event. Josie was enroute to an excellent time in this same event but was disqualified for hitting a corner pin with her skate. Tori also qualified to skate in the Junior World Cup in the 1500m event and placed 8th with a new personal best time and a new provincial record. Those skaters not qualifying for the World Cup event joined junior and senior aged skaters in the CanAm portion of the competition. Josie skated to personal bests in the 500m and 1000m events in the CanAm portion of the competition.