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Two of P.E.I.'s fastest young speed skaters will compete at the last event on Speed Skating Canada’s national competition calendar for the 2023-24 season.
Tiernan Dewar and Olivia Zhang will represent P.E.I. at the 2024 Canadian Youth Short Track Championships - East in Rimouski, Que., March 30-31. The Island athletes will compete in a field of 120 of the best 11- to 13-year-old short-track speed skaters from Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces.
Dewar also claimed seven new provincial long track records for his age group at the events, his first competitions in the long track discipline. In short track, Dewar won the 1,500-metre event in the top division at the Atlantic Canadian Short Track Championships in Dieppe in February, skating to an overall bronze medal. He also won two of three distances in the top division of a regional meet in Hampton, N.B.
Zhang will compete in the 12-year-old female category in Rimouski, after several strong outings on the Maritime circuit this season. The Stratford skater was the top female athlete and second-overall finisher at the Dartmouth Crossing Sprints competition in Nova Scotia earlier this month, where she set two new provincial records for her age group
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