Hyack Swim Club’s Micah Lau won two gold medals and shared a pair of silvers at the B.C. AA short course championship swim meet in Chilliwack last weekend.
The 13-year-old Lau won both the boys’ 100- and 200-metre freestyle races, while placing second in both the 14-and-under 200m free and medley relays for the Hyack Swim Club over three days of racing at the Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre.
Amar Fejzic and Dimitrov Martin shared a silver with Lau in both relay races. Eric Wu swam in the free relay, while Zach Zhao Sun teamed up in the medley.
Hyack also showed future potential in the under-11 age group.
Michi Duclos won five medals, including a gold in the 200m individual medley and 100m butterfly.
Duclos also claimed a silver in the 200m free and bronze in both the 100m free and 200m backstroke.
Sergey Chernomor-chenko won the u-11 boys’ 200m fly and Xiao Yan was first in the boys’ 800m free.
Dragos Tudosa was also a four-medal winner at 12-and-under, earning individual bronze medals in the 200 and 400m IM and two second-place medals in the relays, along with Gregor Gasovic-Varga and Ethan Bahng.
Andrew Li shared a silver in the free relay, while Tej Pooni swam in the medley.
Other individual silver medallists included Martin Dimitrov in the 100m fly and Briana Haiduc and Gasovic-Varga in the 50m free.
Carleen Gao, Aleks Mezentsev, Duclos, Li Chernomorchenko, Haiduc, Zhao, Gasovic-Varga and Sun all registered new AAA qualifying times at the provincial meet.
In all, the Hyacks garnered 19 total medals, including five gold, eight silver and six bronze.
The New West club put a total of 47 swimmers into A-event finals, while another 14 made it to the B finals.
