NWT athletes have returned home from the Special Olympics Canada Winter Games with medals and other accomplishments under their belts.
Speed skater Josh Boudreau, who won double gold at the 2020 games, won two more gold medals and a bronze at this year’s games.
“It was great,” he said.
Boudreau won gold in the 500m in a time of 54.39 seconds. He said he was proud of an inside double pass with two laps left in the race.
He also won gold over the 1,000m distance in one minute and 50 seconds, and bronze over 1,500m in two minutes and 41 seconds.
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Boudreau said he has been speed skating since 2016.
“It keeps me active,” he said. “I like going fast.”
Lexie Letzing, Team NT’s chef de mission, said some of the five bowlers also competing at this year’s games in Calgary achieved personal bests.
That includes Caitlin Vandermeer, who was the territory’s flagbearer during the games’ closing ceremony.
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Letzing said Vandermeer was one point away from winning a bronze medal. She scored 1101 points during the five-pin bowling singles final.
“She was very, very close and although she was one point away, she was still very much celebrated,” Letzing said.
This year’s winter games were held in Calgary between February 27 and March 2.
