SASKATOON — Speed skating again delivered for Team Saskatchewan in the 2023 PEI Canada Winter Games after Serena Dallaire clinched the bronze in the 1500m long track event.
It was the second medal for Saskatchewan’s speed skaters after Luca Veeman’s silver early on the first day of the speed skating event at the Halifax Oval in Charlottetown.
Veeman, fresh from competing in the 2023 ISF World Junior Speed Skating Championships in Germany, gave Team Sask its second silver in the same event in the men’s division.
The Team Sask flag bearer and speed skater finished with a time of 1:58:49 behind Alberta’s Jalen Doan’s 1:57:76.
Then came the 17-year-old Dallaire’s bronze to up Saskatchewan’s medal tally to five with three silver and two bronze with two weeks of competition still left in the quadrennial sporting event.
Dallaire picked up the 1500m female long track speed skating bronze with a time of 2:37:43. Her teammate Ella Cloutier of Regina, missed the podium and placed fourth at 2:39:97.
Regina’s Sophia Dvorak and Saskatoon’s Melissa Scutchings finished 24th and 25th place, respectively, in the same event.
Saskatoon’s Bon Lowe (ninth, 2:02:67) and Fergus Own English (11th, 2:03:70), and Daniel Pauli of Warman (18th, 2:09:42) were the other local bets in men’s long-track speed skating.
Rhiann Arnold won the first medal for the province on Monday, Feb. 20, when she clinched the bronze in the biathlon 6-kilometre female sprint.
Jaelyn Selinger (fifth), Amelia McDonald (19th) and Kaycee Nord (28th) were the other competitors for Team Sask in the same event.
Gymnastics gave the province its two other silver medals in the male (Wilson Reimche and Connor Wehage) and female (Halle Pipko and Jami Reschke) synchronized trampoline.
