A Drumheller cyclist is gearing up for the Canada 55-Plus Games.
The Games are coming up on August 23-26 in Kamloops, and Jim Milman will be competing in the cycling event.
Milman represented Zone 2 at the Alberta 55-plus summer games in the Peace Region from June 16-19. He earned silver in the Men’s 75-plus 20k Recreational Road Race and silver in the Men’s 75-plus 10k Recreational Time Trial. A silver medal earns a spot at the national games.
Big Country Senior Sports Society, known as Zone 2, encompasses Drumheller and stretches from the Saskatchewan border to the B.C. border, north to Sundre and south to Okotoks, surrounding the City of Calgary. While more than 120 individuals qualified to compete in Peace River, the final contingent was just over 80 participants. This group was successful in finishing tied for third place.
While Milman is the only local heading to the national games to compete, others faired well at the Alberta Games.
Zone 2 was successful in winning seven Gold, four Silver and four Bronze medals in the Photography and Crafts competitions. Margaret Nielsen won bronze in the landscape photography, man-made structure category. Another interesting connection is Darryl Reid of Natural Light Images adjudicated the qualifiers.
In 55-plus open singles cribbage, Jessie Irion placed sixth, and Leslie Storch placed seventh. In 55-plus Open Doubles in cribbage, Wendy and Lloyd Laughlin placed eleventh.
Zone 2 team bocce team, which includes Linda Traquair, won bronze in a tiebreaker march.
“The best thing is everybody says they had fun. We don’t emphasize medals as much as we do getting together,” said Zone 2 President Linda Traquair.
Over 900 athletes competed at the games.
The next summer games will be a little closer to home. Brooks is hHosting the 2023 Alberta 55-Plus August 17-24.
“I’m sure we’ll have a big team going here, and we’ll have to start qualifiers all over again,” said Traquair.
