Britany van Lange gathered four more medals yesterday in brilliant performances that culminated with her anchoring the girls’ 15 – 17 relay team to another gold medal this time in the 4x50m relay as the Goodwill Swimming Championships came to a close at the National Aquatic Centre.
Apart from her relay gold van Lange won two other gold and one bronze medal to add to the other nine gold medals that she had already accrued from previous events throughout the championships. For her performance in the 50m freestyle, and 100m breaststroke, van Lange walked away with the two gold medals while the bronze medal came after she finished 1:14.56s in the 100m backstroke where Suriname’s Soroya Van Djik and Trinidad’s Marie Marcano, who were first and second respectively, finally got the best of her.
Overall, van Lange said she actually surprised herself achieving above and beyond what she had originally expected.
“I feel absolutely great, actually I did better than I had expected, I had just wanted to win the freestyle events I didn’t really put so much attention on the other strokes so I really surprised myself,” the 15-year -old Olympian said.
Other medals for Guyana yesterday include another bronze for the boys’ 12 – 13 relay team in the 4x50m relay. The relay team added another 18 points for Guyana with their first place finish ahead of Trinidad while the boys 13 – 14 team also did not disappoint with their third place finish.
In the teams’ standing Suriname seemed poised for an overall win while final results for the event were still to be released up to late last evening.
