In her first race of the season, Glynis Sim of the UBC Thunderbirds received the 2022 U Sports activities XC title on Saturday in Halifax, beating pre-race favorite Jessy Lacourse from Laval Rouge et Or, who received her earlier seven races earlier than heading into the championship.
🏃♀️ XC | Main the @ubctrack girls to a @USPORTSca staff silver, Glynis Sim is the 2022 girls’s particular person champion! pic.twitter.com/uNU8Fhmvhg
— UBC Thunderbirds (@ubctbirds) November 12, 2022
Sim, 24, who completed twenty first at U Sports activities in 2021, spent the final two months sidelined with an damage and was on nobody’s radar to return on this kind. Sim cruised alongside within the lead pack of 12 runners till the 6 km mark, then went with Lacourse when she made her last push. The 2 runners fought it out within the final kilometre, however Sim, a middle-distance specialist, got here out on high to win the 8K race in 28:19.
Lacourse discovered herself on the U Sports activities XC podium once more, successful silver in 28:31 and serving to her Rouge et Or squad win their second straight girls’s staff title, with 49 factors. The Canada West convention champion, Kiana Gibson, completed third in 28:54.
The staff championship got here right down to the closest of margins, with Laval edging out the UBC by just one level. UBC landed on the U Sports activities podium for silver with 50 factors after a fourth-place end in 2021. The Guelph Gryphons, led by Sadie-Jane Hickson’s fourth-overall efficiency, completed within the bronze medal spot with 93 factors.
You possibly can view the total outcomes from the 2022 U Sports activities XC Championships right here.
