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Brault stands tall for 'Toba
Winnipegger swims, cycles, runs to triathlon silver at Canada Summer Games
Manitoba’s Sarah-Anne Brault surges to the front of the pack with B.C.’s Christine Ridenour (left) and Ontario’s Dorelle Hinton (right) in hot pursuit during the cycling stage of the women’s individual triathon event in Summerside, P.E.I. (ANDREW VAUGHAN / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
She swam. She cycled. She ran.
And when it was all done 58 minutes later, Sarah-Anne Brault had won Manitoba its first medal at the Canada Summer Games in Prince Edward Island on Tuesday.
Brault won silver in the women's triathlon on the third full day of competition, adding a medal around her neck to the provincial flag she had the honour of carrying in the opening ceremonies on Saturday.
Reflecting on it, Brault said she was enormously proud of both, but Tuesday's medal felt like an accomplishment while carrying the flag felt like an honour.
"I was really honoured to carry the flag," said Brault, "but it wasn't something I did. This was something I did, something I achieved and I'm really proud of it."
Brault, 19, is a graduate of College Louis Riel who will be in her second year at the University of West Virginia this fall where she is attending on a track scholarship. She previously won silver for Manitoba at the Canada Games in 2005, medalling in the 5,000 metres.
She runs both cross-country and track in NCAA competition, but still favours the diverse challenges that can only be posed by a triathlon event that requires competitors at the Canada Games to swim 750 metres, cycle 20 kilometres and then run five kilometres.
The event is very much an individual competition, pitting competitors against themselves as much as each other in what many regard as the ultimate test of athletic stamina.
But Brault said the triathlon is also a team event and she credited her two Manitoba teammates in Tuesday's race -- Pilot Mound's Stevie Moore and Winnipeg's Rachael Edwards -- with keeping her opponents at bay while she pulled away from the pack in the final kilometre of the foot race. "We raced it really smart," Brault said. "We really were a team out there."
Brault emerged from the water in a pack of seven competitors and remained in that same pack when she dismounted from her bike and began running. B.C.'s Alison Hooper won gold, taking an early lead in the final leg and never relinquishing it -- finishing with a final time of 58:15, 19 seconds ahead of Brault.
Moore finished seventh and Edwards finished 10th. Put those results together and Manitoba finished third as a team in the race, although there were only medals awarded for individual results.
Those results bode well for Manitoba, however, with the team triathlon race still to come on Friday.
Although Brault's silver was the first medal of the Games for Manitoba, only a handful of any kind had been awarded heading into Tuesday. "I'm sure the medals will start to come now," Brault said.
And one of the first places they will likely come is in rowing. Sport Manitoba's Barry Moroz said Manitoba rowers have places in six different finals on Thursday.
And then there's the play of the Manitoba women's softball team, which improved to 5-0 Tuesday with wins over P.E.I. and Alberta.
The 2-0 win over Alberta was particularly dramatic, with Manitoba pitcher Amanda Greenberg coming within one walk of pitching a perfect game. In the end, Winnipeg's Greenberg had to settle for a no-hitter, striking out 16 in the seven-inning complete game.
The Manitoba softballers face their toughest test today against Ontario, also 5-0 heading into the day.
How Manitoba did C6
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 19, 2009 C1
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