Joyce Yakubowich was one of Canada’s top sprinters in the 1970s, competing at two Olympics and winning acclaim at the Pan American Games in 1975 by winning three medals on the track at University Olympic Stadium in Mexico City.Joyce Yakubowich was a 16-year-old student when three friends asked her to join them on the high school relay team.
She won national acclaim at the Pan American Games in 1975 by winning three medals on the track at University Olympic Stadium in Mexico City. Her preferred technique was to start a race fast because she felt she lacked the stamina needed for a strong finishing kick. What no one knew at the time was that she was suffering from a blood disorder following a heavy spring of overseas competition.
In May, 1970, at Swangard Stadium in Burnaby, the Grade 11 student set an interscholastic regional record for the 200 metres and tied the standard of 11.1 seconds in the 100 in her first track meet. She also won the 400-metre race. When medal hopeful Irene Piotrowski pulled a muscle leaving the starting blocks in a heat of the 100-metre dash, Ms. Yakubowich was pressed into service on the Canadian relay team with Ms. Loverock, Joan Hendry, and Stephanie Berto, a great scholastic sprinter from Vancouver who had competed at the Olympics two years earlier at age 15. The Canadians placed third behind the gold-winning Australians and an English quartet.
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