West Vancouver swimmer Emily Overholt won a pair of medals at the 2014 Victorian Open Championships held Jan. 17-19 in Melbourne, Australia.
Overholt, competing as part of the 15-member Canadian junior team, claimed bronze in the women's 400-metre individual medley on Jan. 17, finishing in a time of four minutes and 45.18 seconds. It was the 16-yearold's second fastest career time in the event.
"It was a good race considering we are in the midst of some hard training," Overholt said in a Swimming Canada release. "I went out very fast and it was definitely hard to maintain that pace the whole time."
One day later Overholt climbed two steps up to earn gold as part of Canada's 4x200-m freestyle relay team along with Lili Margitai of Edmonton, Frédérique Cigna of Montreal and Kennedy Goss of Toronto. They scored a time of 8:11.34, finishing more than three seconds ahead of the second-place Australians.
