By Mark Squibb/August 12, 2022
Two Mount Pearl Marlins have been winning medals-a-plenty at the at the 2022 Canada Summer Games in Niagara this week.
Marlin Chris Weeks earned a gold medal in the 50 metre Butterfly with a time of 24.53 seconds on Tuesday, a new age 15-17 and Open Swimming Newfoundland provincial record. The medal is the first gold medal to be won by Team NL Swimming at the Canada Summer Games since Iain Tennent won gold in the 100 metres freestyle at Kamloops, B.C. in 1993.
Weeks also won a silver medal on Monday, clocking a time of 52.75 seconds in the Men's 17 and Under 100 LC metre Freestyle. Fellow Marlin Thomas Pelley also earned a silver medal Monday. Pelley clocked a time of 1:02.88 in the Men's 14 - 26 100 metre long course freestyle. Pelley also earned a bronze medal Tuesday in the 100 M backstroke. He completed the 100 metres in 1:18.36.
Weeks, who hails from St. Johns, began swimming competitively in 2019, and has won multiple medals in the 2022 Swimming NL Provincial Championships, the 2022 Hicken International, and earned a first-place finish at the 2021 Ontario Junior International Championships.
Pelley, of Paradise, began his competitive swim career in 2016. He has competed in the Newfoundland and Labrador 2016 Summer Games in Conception Bay South, the 2017 Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg, and the Special Olympics Canada 2018 Summer Games in Nova Scotia.
Nathan Luscombe of Gander Lakers swim club also won a medal for Team NL. Luscombe earned a bronze medal Monday in the 400 free long course multi-class Para event, which he completed in 4:49.86.
