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Vernon's Bennison Golden At Canadian Cross Country Championships

Hannah Bennison of Vernon dominated a field of 77 runners to claim the junior women’s national title at the Canadian cross country championships in Kingston, Ont. on Saturday.

<who>Photo Credit: Peter Stokes Photography </who>Hannah Bennison ran away from the competition at the Canadian <br>cross country championships in Kingston.Bennison, 16, who trains at the Okanagan Athletics Club in Kelowna, covered the three-loop, six-kilometre course in 20 minutes 29.7 seconds, well ahead of runner-up, Madeleine Ghazarian (20:50.6).

A Vernon Secondary School student, Bennison also won the B.C. high school senior girls cross country championship and was fourth in at the BC Athletics senior women’s provincial championship race in October.

In the Canadian youth boys 6K race, Kelowna’s Sean Bergman ran to sixth place among 100 competitors in a tme of 19:33.1, while fellow Kelowna Secondary School student, Chet Goerzen, placed 10th in 19:34.4.

Jonathan Stoppa of the Les Coureurs De Bois club in Quebe won the race in 19:14.1.

The junior men's 8K race saw the University of B.C.'s John Gay of Kelowna and the OAC run to 17th place among 116 competitors with a clocking of 25:43.3. The winning time of 25:07.9 was turned in by Ehab El-Sandali of the Etobicoke (Ont.) Track and Field Club

Taryn O'Neill of the Okanagan Athletics Club placed ninth among 189 runners in the youth girls race. The George Elliot Secondary School student's time over the four-kilometre course was 14:32.3, while the winner, Brogan McDougall of Kingston won the event with a clocking of 13:53.8. Glynis Sim of Salmon Arm and the Vernon Amateur Athletics Club, crossed in eighth place in 14:30.8.

<who>Photo Credit: Peter Stokes Photography </who>Hannah Bennison, left, took the lead early and finished with one of the most dominant victories in the history of the national junior women's cross country championship.

<who>Photo Credit: Peter Stokes Photography </who>The OAC's Taryn O'Neill, right, ran to ninth place among 189 runners in the youth girls division at the Canadian cross country championships.



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