B.C. Athletes More than 1/3 of Canadian Olympic Team

By 250 Sports

Victoria, B.C. - More than a third of the Canadian athletes heading to Beijing for the summer olympics are from B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell and Minister of Healthy Living and Sport Mary Polak offered congratulations today to those who made it to Team Canada.

"The thousands of hours of hard work, the dedication to their goals and the commitment to make it to this pinnacle of competition represents the determined spirit of all Team BC members. They have the support and best wishes of the entire province and we will all be cheering them on."

B.C. athletes named to the 2008 Canadian Olympic team*
Number of athletes on the Canadian Olympic team: 331
Number of born or resident in B.C.: 114
Per cent of total Canadian Olympic Team: 34 per cent

All names listed below come from the Official Canadian Team List posted on the Canadian Olympic Committee website July 23, 2008.
*Two names have been added (Blythe Hartley and Rob Short) who are on the COC list but not identified as British Columbians.  The numbers in brackets beside each sport are the number of B.C. athletes/total Canadian team).

Athlete Name          City

Aquatics - Diving (2/10)
*Blythe Hartley       North Vancouver (not on COC list)
Riley McCormick       Victoria

Aquatics - Swimming (7/27)
Ryan Cochrane         Victoria
Brent Hayden          Mission
Tanya Hunks           Vancouver
Brian Johns           Richmond
Savannah King         Vancouver
Rick Say              Victoria
Jake Tapp             Langley

Aquatics - Synchronized Swimming (1/9)
Dominika Kopcik       Surrey

Aquatics - Water Polo - Men (4/13)
Thomas Marks          Vancouver
Kevin Mitchell        Maple Ridge
Constantine Kudaba    Port Coquitlam
Brandon Jung          Burnaby

Athletics (5/31)
Ruky Abdulai          Coquitlam
Dylan Armstrong       Kamloops
Michael Mason         Nanoose Bay
Gary Reed             Kamloops/Victoria
Tyler Christopher     Chilliwack

Badminton (1/4)
Anna Rice             North Vancouver

Baseball (8/24)
Brett Lawrie          Langley
Brooks McNiven        Vancouver
Emerson Frostad       Vancouver
Scott Richmond        Langley
Matt Rogelstad        New Westminster
Mike Saunders         Victoria
Robert Swindle        Vancouver
Jimmy VanOstrand      Richmond

Canoe / Kayak Slalom (2/3)
James Cartwright      North Vancouver
David Ford            Chilliwack

Cycling (10/15)
Scott Erwood          Surrey
Seamus McGrath        Victoria
Gina Grain            Burnaby
Catherine Pendrel     Kamloops
Ryder Hesjedal        Victoria
Geoff Kabush          Courtenay
Svein Tuft            Langley
Erinne Willock        Victoria
Alexandra Wrubleski   Victoria
Zach Bell             North Vancouver

Equestrian Dressage and Eventing (2/8)
Leslie Reid           Langley
Samantha Taylor       Richmond

Football (Soccer) - Women (12/18)
Amber Allen           Vancouver
Martina Franko        Squamish
Randee Hermus         Langley
Karina LeBlanc        Maple Ridge
Erin McLeod           Vancouver
Gayle Robyn           Vancouver
Clare Rustad          Salt Spring Island
Sophie Schmidt        Abbottsford
Christine Sinclair    Burnaby
Brittany Timko        Coquitlam
Rhian Wilkinson       Vancouver
Emily Zurer           Crofton

Field Hockey - Men (13/16)
Ranjeev Deol          Surrey
Connor Grimes         Duncan
Ravi Kahlon           Victoria
Bindi Kullar          Surrey
Mike Mahood           West Vancouver
Mark Peason           Vancouver
Marian Schole         Vancouver
Sukhwinder Singh      Surrey
Peter Short           Delta
*Rob Short            Delta (not on COC list)
Scott Tupper          Vancouver
Paul Wettlaufer       North Vancouver
Anthony Wright        Vancouver

Gymnastics -Artistic (1/8)
Grant Golding         Maple Ridge

Modern Pentathlon (1/3)
Monica Pinette        Langley

Rowing (24/34)
Jonathan Beare        Victoria
James Byrnes          Victoria
Rachelle de Jong      Nanaimo
Sabrina Kolker        Comox
Adam Kreek            Victoria
Danial Parsons        Victoria
Brian Price           Victoria
Krista Guloien        Port Moody
Anna Marie de Zwager  Victoria
Darcy Marquardt       Richmond
Heather Mandoli       Kelowna
Romina Stefancic      Victoria
Doug Vandor           Dewitville
Dave Calder           Victoria
Scott Frandsen        Kelowna
Iain Brambell         Victoria
Mike Lewis            Victoria
Kyle Hamilton         Richmond
Malcolm Howard        Victoria
Kevin Light           Victoria
Ben Rutledge          Cranbrook
Dominic Seiterle      Victoria
Cameron Sylvester     Victoria
Jacob Wetzel          Victoria

Sailing (4/14)Nikola Girke          West Vancouver
Mike Leigh            Vancouver
Zac Plavsic           West Vancouver
Ben Remocker          Vancouver

Shooting (2/4)
Giuseppe De Salvatore Surrey
Johannes Sauer        Vancouver

Softball - Women (5/15)
Lauren Bay-Regula     Trail
Danielle Lawrie       Langley
Melanie Matthews      Surrey
Jennifer Salling      Coquitlam
Jennifer Yee          Delta

Taekwondo (1/3)
Ivett Gonda           Maple Ridge

Triathlon (3/6)
Lauren Groves         Vancouver
Carolyn Murray        Victoria
Simon Whitfield       Victoria

Weightlifting (2/5)
Jeane Lassen          Victoria
Jasvir Singh          Burnaby

Wrestling (4/10)
Travis Cross          Port Alberni
Carol Huynh           Hazelton
Matt Gentry           Vancouver
Haislan Garcia        Burnaby

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