Dante St. Prix of New Westminster helped the B.C. judo team to a 15medal haul at the Canadian junior national judo championships in Quebec.
St. Prix, who trains out of the Ishikawa Judo Club at the Nikkei Cultural Centre in Burnaby, placed third in the under-15 boys' under55 kilogram category at the championships in Sept Iles on July 2.
St. Prix won his opening match with an inside leg swipe in the first six seconds of the match.
But in his second bout, St. Prix was disqualified while leading following a major penalty on his Ontario opponent.
St. Prix fought back in his next bout, stopping the Alberta champion on points.
St. Prix won his next two matches convincingly, scoring an ippon, or singlepoint scoring throw in the following match and then a half-point waza ari in the fifth and final bout.
The bronze medal was one of eight earned by the B.C. team.
B.C. also brought home two gold and five silver medals.
Six Burnaby Judo members were among those taking part at the junior nationals.
Jhulianne Romero made it to the u-17 girls' u-52
kg semifinals before losing by ippon to eventual silver medallist Elena Giuglielmo of Quebec.
Anil Kumar lost in the quarter-finals of the boys' u-66 kg division, while clubmate Dylan Samuel was beaten in his first two matchs at u-55 kg.
In the u-20 division, Darko Heriban and Cohen Hocking were both eliminated in the quarter-finals.
Heriban lost to eventual bronze medallist Jeremie Turcotte of Quebec at u-73 kg. Hocking fell by ippon to eventual champion Michael Fortin-Demers at u-66 kg. Adbumajit Samazov lost in the second round at u-81 kg.
