St Catharine’s, ON (August 19, 2022): Savannah Sutherland (19) from Borden, SK earned a GOLD in the 400m Hurdles Female event today at Canada Games Park. Her event took place at 5:30pm EST, with the medal ceremony taking place at 6:20pm EST. She will also be competing in the 4x400m Relay Female Medal Heat tomorrow, Saturday, August 20th at 4:15pm EST.
Sutherland goes to the University of Michigan, in the United States. Sutherland competed at the 2022 Canadian National Champions winning gold, the 2022 World U20 Championships and the 2021 World U20 Championships placing third.
Quotes:
- Harvey Weber, coach
- “Today was unbelievably exciting, it’s our first gold medal. She [Sutherland] is an outstanding athlete and person and deserves that gold medal, more than anybody else!”
- “Savannah is an elite athlete; she has been to the World U20 Championship the last two years in a row representing Canada. She was just in Columbia a month ago, representing Canada in the 400m hurdles and she knows how to put her game face on and pull off an incredible performance. She’s done just that at the Canada Games for Team Sask and we’re all so proud of her.”
- Savannah Sutherland, athletics
- “I’m really proud to represent the province, we’re one of the smaller provinces and this just proves we can go out there and compete with all the bigger ones too. So, I’m really proud of that.”
This brings Team Sask’s medal count to GOLD: 1 | SILVER: 9 | BRONZE: 9 | TOTAL: 19
Credit: Michael Scraper
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