Medals Awarded To Table Tennis Competitors

by Alexa Laing-Moore

The Mount Baker School gym was filled with smiling faces on Sunday February 24^th as athletes were presented with bronze, silver and gold medals for Table Tennis. There were seven categories to which medals were awarded: male team, female team, mixed doubles, male doubles, female doubles, male singles and female singles.

Collin Johnston, Director for the Kimberly-Cranbrook 2008 Winter Games, presented the bronze medal. Laurie Reed, another director, gave out the silver medal. The honour of presenting the gold medal went to Bruce Mollison, Councillor for the City of Cranbrook and director of the games.

Athletes from the Fraser Valley and Caribou were awarded bronze medals for the male team. Silver went to a group of boys from the Fraser Valley Delta. The winners of the gold medal were from Squamish. Medals were the given to the female teams. In third place were athletes from the Fraser Valley and Caribou. The girls from Squamish were awarded silver, with gold going to the Fraser River Delta teammates.

Next in line were the mixed doubles. Liang, So, So and Tang walked away with bronze, while Jaeckle and Steinbach were presented with silver. Gold was then given to Wu and Fu.

The winners of the bronze medal for male doubles were Chan, Liu, Liang and Shou. The silver medal went to Wu and Ng. Gold went to Tang and Liang. Ming, Lam, Wang and Fu received the bronze medals for female doubles. Fu and Lee won silver and So and So were presented with gold.

For female singles, Tiffany So and Leanne Lee were awarded bronze medals. Koryn Steinbach won silver and Shirley Fu walked away with the gold medal. Yuan Ping Liang and Chao Liang came in at third place in male singles, while Kevin Tang took the silver. Lastly, Teddy Wu was presented with the gold medal.