Hau-Li Fan won a medal of every colour at the B.C. high school sports swimming championships at Watermania in Richmond.
Fan won the open boys’ 200-metre individual medley in a time of 2:11.36, more than a second ahead of runner-up Gabe Lee of Delta, but well off the provincial record of 2:04.71 set by current Olympian Brian Johns back in 1998.
Fan also shared a silver medal with the mixed 200m medley relay team of May Li, Katrina Heinonen and Inder Pooni, while also winning a bronze with Chris Polok, Dilip Rathinakumar and Pooni in the 200m free team event. Fan also finished fifth in the 100m butterfly.
Li had a best individual fourth-place swim in the open girls’ 100m backstroke. She was also ninth in the 100m fly.
Pooni was sixth in the open boys’ 100m back. Heinonen placed fifth in the 100m open girls’ breast.
The Burnaby Mountain Lions set a new provincial mixed freestyle relay record at the swim championships in Richmond.
The Lions’ team of Brian Fung, Elaine Lam, Cristian Cristurean and Robyn Lee shattered the eight-year-old record in the preliminaries, and then set another new mark of 1:45.35 en route to the gold medal in the 200-metre relay in Saturday’s final. The old record of 1:47.20 was set in 2005 by West Vancouver.
Lee, one of more than a dozen swim academy students on the Mountain team, helped the Lions to a fourth-place overall finish.
“It was pretty cool. It was a busy meet,” said Lee, who swims for Simon Fraser Aquatics. “At the club level there is more focus individually, but when you’re racing for your team it’s more like time to represent your school. You just get into it more. It’s your teammates are swimming, too.”
Lee also won an individual gold in the open girls’ 50m free and was fourth at the 100m distance. Cristurean was a runner-up in the boys’ 100m free. Fung had strong final swims in the 100m breaststroke and 200m individual medley.
Mountain placed fourth overall with 337 total points in the aggregate standings won by St. George’s 629 total. Mulgrave placed second at 489 and Delta third with 394 points, while Burnaby North rounded out the top 10 at 246. New West placed 15th overall, while St. Thomas More Collegiate came 28th.
Mountain also placed third in the boys’ aggregate behind St. George’s and runner-up West Point Grey Academy. North finished in sixth spot.
York House topped the girls’ division. Mountain and New Westminster finished 13th and 20th, respectively.
