Tori Spence (17 yrs) of the Kamloops River City Racers Speed Skating Club came home with a bronze medal finish at the Junior National Speed Skating Championships in Saskatoon over the weekend. Tori’s bronze came in the 3000m event setting a new provincial record with a time of 4:53.71. The old record was 5:04.66. Tori set provincial records in two of her other distances. In the 1500m she placed 5th with a record time of 2:18.26 (2:21.81 old record) and 7th in the 1000m in a record time of 1:29.01 (old record 1:31.42). She placed 11th in the 500m with a new personal best time of 45.08sec.
Tori placed 5th overall at this Championships. The 5 top skaters are in contention for a spot at the World Junior Championships to be held in Russia later this season. Only the top two skaters from this competition were officially named to the World team. The next three spots will be officially decided at the North American Championships in Salt Lake City February 12 – 14th.
Also in action in Saskatoon was sister Josie Spence (15 years) who skated to a 13th place overall ranking with an 8th place, and her best individual finish, coming in the 3000m event. Josie set personal bests in all of her distances skated.
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