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By Lori Ewing
The Canadian Press
GLASGOW — Sultana Frizell spent her pre-Games training camp in Portugal working out in her bathing suit, throwing someone else’s hammers. Her bag had been lost in transit.
It wasn’t the perfect preparation the Perth athlete had planned, but she shrugged it off Monday night by capturing hammer throw gold at the Commonwealth Games, breaking the Games record three times in the process.
“I didn’t have my hammers or my throwing gear. Or underwear. For about six days,” Frizell, a member of the Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club, said with a smirk. “That was fun. I threw in my bathing suit.”
The 29-year-old threw 71.69 metres to claim gold, but left Hampden Park disappointed that she didn’t come closer to the Canadian record of 75.73 she threw earlier this season.
“I’m very happy to win gold again and move the Commonwealth record a little bit further,” she said. “It wasn’t as far as I would have liked it. … I was feeling in good form and I thought I was going to do a little more today, but it wasn’t in the tank.
“But you know what? It was a great day.”
Tim Nedow of Brockville, another Lions track and field club athlete who trains with Frizell in Kamloops, B.C., added a bronze in the men’s shot put later Monday, while Damian Warner of London, Ont., ended Day 1 of the decathlon with an 84-point lead.
“Everybody was hoping for great things from Sultana and she delivered,” said Chantal Petitclerc, the Chef de Mission for Canada’s 2014 Commonwealth Games team. “It was really great to see her breaking record after record. Her consistent high performance is really a marvel.”
Frizell entered the Games as the defending champion, having won the hammer throw event four years ago in New Delhi, India. She opened Monday with a throw of 70.55 metres to break the Games record of 68.92 metres she’d set in qualifying a day earlier.
For his part, Nedow threw 20.59 metres for a third-place showing in shot put. Jamaican O’Dayne Richards threw a Games-record 21.61 for gold, while Tom Walsh of New Zealand was second with 21.19.
Frizell and Nedow are two of 13 athletes from Ottawa and area on the 267-member Canadian Games team. Canada was tied for sixth in the overall medal standings on Monday with 24 (nine gold, three silver, 12 bronze). Australia is in top spot with 87 (30-25-32).
For Frizell, 2014 has been a welcome turnaround after a frustrating 2013 season in which she competed in 10 meets with a best toss of 71.57 metres. For the second straight year, she only exceeded 70 metres four times under coach Dr. Anatoliy Bondarchuk.
Frizell teamed with coach Derek Evely for 2014, and the results have been immediate. She had thrown farther than 73 metres in all five meets prior to the Games, winning four and placing second (with a toss of 73.21) in the IAAF Challenge against the best in the world. She improved her Canadian record to 75.73 from 75.04 in Tuscon, Arizona, and recently won her fourth national title in Moncton at 73.78.
Ryan Rowat, a member of the board of directors for the Lions and a close friend of Frizell’s, said he was pleased but not surprised at her performance in Glasgow. “I fully expected her to win (Monday’s) competition. Her competitors are improving, but she’s far above them. A gold medal was her goal; goal accomplished.”
Frizell’s performance at the Games will make her a serious contender to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, said Rowat, who has known her since 1999 when they trained together as members of the Lions club.
Perth Mayor John Fenik offered Frizell congratulations Monday on behalf of the town’s citizens and council. “We, as a community, are so proud of Sultana. She is an amazing young woman. She is an incredible athlete, but more importantly a leader for our youth. (We) hope to see her home in Perth soon.”
Some 15 years ago, Frizell probably never could have imagined she’d be the pride of Perth as a gold-medallist in the hammer throw at the Commonwealth Games. The 5-10 thrower was actually a figure skater growing up, competing in ice dance until she was 16 — a sport that’s a polar opposite to hammer throwing.
“We look pretty twirling,” she joked on Monday about hammer throwing. “I just grew too much for figure skating, for jumping and stuff. Every year I would grow.”
She also played volleyball and basketball in high school, and then, forced to pick between track and soccer during the spring high school season, she went with track.
“And I was going to throw. Because I didn’t want to run,” Frizell said.
With files from the Citizen
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The Canadian Press
GLASGOW — Sultana Frizell spent her pre-Games training camp in Portugal working out in her bathing suit, throwing someone else’s hammers. Her bag had been lost in transit.
It wasn’t the perfect preparation the Perth athlete had planned, but she shrugged it off Monday night by capturing hammer throw gold at the Commonwealth Games, breaking the Games record three times in the process.
“I didn’t have my hammers or my throwing gear. Or underwear. For about six days,” Frizell, a member of the Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club, said with a smirk. “That was fun. I threw in my bathing suit.”
The 29-year-old threw 71.69 metres to claim gold, but left Hampden Park disappointed that she didn’t come closer to the Canadian record of 75.73 she threw earlier this season.
“I’m very happy to win gold again and move the Commonwealth record a little bit further,” she said. “It wasn’t as far as I would have liked it. … I was feeling in good form and I thought I was going to do a little more today, but it wasn’t in the tank.
“But you know what? It was a great day.”
Tim Nedow of Brockville, another Lions track and field club athlete who trains with Frizell in Kamloops, B.C., added a bronze in the men’s shot put later Monday, while Damian Warner of London, Ont., ended Day 1 of the decathlon with an 84-point lead.
“Everybody was hoping for great things from Sultana and she delivered,” said Chantal Petitclerc, the Chef de Mission for Canada’s 2014 Commonwealth Games team. “It was really great to see her breaking record after record. Her consistent high performance is really a marvel.”
Frizell entered the Games as the defending champion, having won the hammer throw event four years ago in New Delhi, India. She opened Monday with a throw of 70.55 metres to break the Games record of 68.92 metres she’d set in qualifying a day earlier.
For his part, Nedow threw 20.59 metres for a third-place showing in shot put. Jamaican O’Dayne Richards threw a Games-record 21.61 for gold, while Tom Walsh of New Zealand was second with 21.19.
Frizell and Nedow are two of 13 athletes from Ottawa and area on the 267-member Canadian Games team. Canada was tied for sixth in the overall medal standings on Monday with 24 (nine gold, three silver, 12 bronze). Australia is in top spot with 87 (30-25-32).
For Frizell, 2014 has been a welcome turnaround after a frustrating 2013 season in which she competed in 10 meets with a best toss of 71.57 metres. For the second straight year, she only exceeded 70 metres four times under coach Dr. Anatoliy Bondarchuk.
Frizell teamed with coach Derek Evely for 2014, and the results have been immediate. She had thrown farther than 73 metres in all five meets prior to the Games, winning four and placing second (with a toss of 73.21) in the IAAF Challenge against the best in the world. She improved her Canadian record to 75.73 from 75.04 in Tuscon, Arizona, and recently won her fourth national title in Moncton at 73.78.
Ryan Rowat, a member of the board of directors for the Lions and a close friend of Frizell’s, said he was pleased but not surprised at her performance in Glasgow. “I fully expected her to win (Monday’s) competition. Her competitors are improving, but she’s far above them. A gold medal was her goal; goal accomplished.”
Frizell’s performance at the Games will make her a serious contender to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, said Rowat, who has known her since 1999 when they trained together as members of the Lions club.
Perth Mayor John Fenik offered Frizell congratulations Monday on behalf of the town’s citizens and council. “We, as a community, are so proud of Sultana. She is an amazing young woman. She is an incredible athlete, but more importantly a leader for our youth. (We) hope to see her home in Perth soon.”
Some 15 years ago, Frizell probably never could have imagined she’d be the pride of Perth as a gold-medallist in the hammer throw at the Commonwealth Games. The 5-10 thrower was actually a figure skater growing up, competing in ice dance until she was 16 — a sport that’s a polar opposite to hammer throwing.
“We look pretty twirling,” she joked on Monday about hammer throwing. “I just grew too much for figure skating, for jumping and stuff. Every year I would grow.”
She also played volleyball and basketball in high school, and then, forced to pick between track and soccer during the spring high school season, she went with track.
“And I was going to throw. Because I didn’t want to run,” Frizell said.
With files from the Citizen
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