Local track star wins summer games award
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This article was published 10/08/2018 (2588 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
It’s been a year since Victoria Tachinski won gold for Manitoba at the Canada Summer Games, but her performance is still being recognized today.
It was announced Wednesday that Tachinski, as well as Team New Brunswick para-athlete Max Arsenault, have been named the recipients of the 2017 Canada Summer Games Roland Michener Award.
It’s a $2,000 athletic bursary, which is awarded at the one-year anniversary of the Canada Games, that goes to athletes who exemplified leadership, co-operation and excellence during the Games.
Tachinski, a Vincent Massey Collegiate grad who now runs track at Penn State, captured three medals at the Games, as she helped guide her relay team to a silver medal in the 4×400-metre relay to go along with a gold medal in the 400m and a silver medal in the 800m race.
“Overall, Canada Games was one of my favourite experiences and it’s helped me set up towards my next level of competition,” Tachinski said in a press release. “I am so grateful towards the Canada Games committee and I’m so lucky I had this experience.”

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Updated on Friday, August 10, 2018 9:47 AM CDT: Headline fixed.