Dylan Armstrong: The best Athletics Canada has to offer

Published: December 21, 2011 5:00 PM
Updated: December 21, 2011 5:21 PM

Dylan Armstrong had a year to remember.

The Kamloops shot-put master won three Athletics Canada awards, the organization announced on Wednesday, Dec. 21.

He won the Jack W. Davies Trophy, for overall athlete of the year, the F.N.A. Rowell Trophy, for outstanding athlete in field events, and the Cal D. Bricker Memorial Trophy, for most outstanding performance.

Armstrong won Canada's first-ever medal in a throwing event at the IAAF world championships, earning a silver in?Daegu, South Korea.

The hulking athlete won Pan American Games gold in Brazil in October, setting a Games record in the process, and he won the Diamond League title, which came with it a 4-carat diamond trophy and a cool $40,000.

And, oh yeah, the Westsyde secondary graduate set a Canadian record with a throw of 22.21 metres, the longest throw recorded on the planet this year.

Much of Armstong's success can be attributed to his coach, Anatoliy Bondarchuk, lead coach at the National Throws Centre in the River City.

Bondarchuk was named Athletics Canada's coach of the year.

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