Dylan Thomas captured four gold and one silver medal to lead the Langley Olympians Swim Club at the West Coast Open swim meet over the weekend in Richmond.
The meet featured more than 500 swimmers from 17 clubs and Langley won five gold, five silver and six bronze medals.
Thomas, 11, was tops in the 200 and 400IM and the 200 and 400 free events as well as taking second in the 100 breast.
Alanna Picotte, 11, won gold in the 400 free, silver in the 200 free and a pair of bronze in the 200IM and 200 back. She also achieved her AAA qualifying times in the 50 fly, 400 free, 200IM and 200 back for this July’s provincial championships.
Daniella de la Gorgendiere, 15, won silver in the 400 free.
Robyn Nakano, 16, won silver in the 50 fly.
John Park, 11, won silver in the 200 breast.
Reese Blunden, 12, won bronze in the 200 back and Luke Stewart-Beinder, 10, won three bronze medals in the 50 fly, 100 fly and 50 free.
And a team of six Olympians swimmers were at the Mel Zajac Junior International Swim Meet at the UBC Aquatic Centre last week.
Thirteen-year-old Josie Field achieved her age group national qualifying time in the 50 fly which earns her a place at the Canadian age group national championships.
And 17-year-old Hilary Metcalfe achieved her senior national qualifying time in the 200IM and has now made times for four separate events.
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Metcalfe made the final heats of all but one of her heats, placing fourth in the 400IM and in the 50 breast, fifth in the 200IM, 12th in the 200 breast and 13th in the 100 breast.
Renae Ledoux, 15, made the final heat in three events, finishing eighth in the 50 breast, ninth in the 100 breast and ninth in the 200 breast.
And Bailey Herbert made the final heat in the 50 breast, finishing 20th overall, a great achievement as she was significantly younger than her competition.