The westcoast 4 meet PacifiCanada Series, concluded with this week with 10 meet records being smashed. At least one record was set in Victoria, Abbotsford, Richmond or Burnaby.  Details can be found at the website of each meet and in our record page. The leading record setter was Dylan Armstrong of Kamloops with his seasonal best throw of 20.92m just a fraction below his Canadian record of 21.04m.

Coquitalm’s Olympian, Ruky Abdulai broke the series and the Jerome record with her 6.60m jump only 14 centimetres behind her personal best set at the NY Grand Prix this year.  She may approach Tabia Charles’ Canadian record of 6.82m before this season is over.

Liz Gleadle of Vancouver established a new series record in Abbotsford with her toss of 55.19m.  This is very close to personal best of 55.85m set earlier this year.

Throughout the series a remarkable number of seasonal best and personal best performances were achieved.

PacifiCanada Series   Seasonal Bests        Personal Bests

Victoria                               21                                32

Richmond                           45                                29

Jerome                                36                                36

Abbotsford                         10                                  24

TOTAL                             112 —————————121

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