Ali-Khan leads McGill team to second largest medal haul

Continuing her string of excellence, Sarah Ali-Khan won one gold medals and two silvers to propel the Martlets Track & Field team to a seventh place finish at the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union championships held this past week-end at Sherbrooke.

Ali-Khan, struck gold in the 1000 meter, and anchored the 4X800 meter relay team to second place. She finished second in the 1500 meter run.

Over her three CIAU championship meets, Ali-Khan has now captured four golds, three silvers and a bronze, breaking the record of six medals won by Dr. Linda Thyer.

Other standouts for the Martlets over the week-end were Emilie Mondour who earned all-Canadian status with a silver in the 3000 meter run. She also was a member of the winning 4X800 relay team along with Zein Odeh and Genevieve Shurtleff.

Dawn Creighton also placed sixth in the triple jump on the women’s side.

The Martlets combined with the Redmen(12th of 26 teams overall) to win five medals, the second best performance ever by McGill at the nationals. Their only higher medal haul was in 1998 when McGill walked away with seven medals.

On the men’s side, Yohsuke Hayashi earned all-Canadian status with a silver medal in the 1000 meter run. He also anchored McGill to a fifth place finish in the 4X800 meter relay with Daniel Cohen, Ryan Beaton and Daniel Lennox.

Ali-Khan and Hayashi McGill-Adidas Athletes of the Week

For obvious reasons, Sarah Ali-Khan and Yohsuke Hayashi were named McGill-Adidas Athletes of the week. Ali-Khan was masterful as usual, capturing two golds and a silver at the CIAU track Nationals, while Hayashi notched a silver medal. Ali-Khan, a native of Baie D’Urfe who lived for a prolonged period in new Zealand is a 26 year old graduate student in Pharmacology, and Hayashi is a 23 year old Computer Engineering Junior from Brossard, Quebec.