The Winnipeg Sun from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada • 42

Runners take top honors i vt 4 The Bombers were also honored with the Cyclone McAlpinc Award for their Grey Cup win The award is presented annually for the story or event with the greatest impact on the community Don Hornby vice president of media relations for last Western Canada Summer Games was presented with the Dallas Beck Good Guy Award for his work with the media at the Games WCSG general manager Bill Crook received a special plaque on behalf of the Games organizers The MSSA inducted three members into its Media Roll of Honor Winnipeg Sun golf and curling writer Bob Pickcn Winnipeg Free Pres sports columnist Hal Sigurdson and CBC executive producer Bob Moir A pair of distance runners ran away with the hardware last night at the 35th annual Manitoba Athletes of the Year Banquet at the International Inn Chris Weber and Angela Chalmers were presented with the male and female athlete of the year awards at the banquet sponsored by the Manitoba Sports writers and Sportcasters Association As well the Grey Cup-winning Winnipeg Blue Bombers received the Maurice Smith Memorial Award as the team of the year in Manitoba Weber the national 5000-metres champion and top-ranked 100-metres runner in the country beat out university volleyball player of the year Dale Iwanocxko Manitoba Golfer of the Year Rob MacMillan All-Canadian football player Jason Rauhaus and All-Canadian basketball player Joey Vickery Chalmers winner of gold medals in the 1500 and SflOO metres at last year's Commonwealth Games was selected ahead of Canadian champion bowler Laura Johnstone World Rowing Championship gold medalist Colleen Miller Commonwealth Games swimmer Erin Murphy and All-Canadian volleyball player Michelle Sawatzky It is the first Ume two athletes from the same sport have won male and female athlete of the year honors The Bombers who beat the Edmonton Eskimos 50-11 to win the Grey Cup in November won top team honors for the second time in the six-year history of the award which is named in memory of former Winnipeg Free Press sports editor Maurice Smith The Bombers also won in 1980 as a result oftheir 1988 Grey Cup triumph Bombers top team The Blue Bombers were given the nod over the Great Plains Athletic Conference-champion Brandon University men'k basketball team the national-champion provincial junior men's field lacrosse team the university-champion University of Manitoba volleyball team and Jim curling rink which won the national senior men'k UUe WINNING FORM ABOVE: Chris Weber Is the national 5000-metres champion and top-ranked 1500-metres runner In the country RIGHT Angela Chalmers won the gold medals In the 1500- and 3000-metres races at last year's Commonwealth Games BIRTHDAY 500 Sr ESA0AY Age 16 January 18 wire $1700 Canucks up Down Under Swimmers mine silver in most successful day PERTH Australia (CP) Mark Tewksbury the water polo team and synchronized swim team each won silver WITH PICTURE 9 Ui OWI LOW to JANUARY BIRTHDAYS AvObRMSAS ftfW ziiK missing out on a medal by flve-onc-hundredths of a second "I could see Rouse right beside me and I could actually feel myself edge past him with about 25 metres to go Unfortunately the wall come up perfectly fhr my stroke count and he edged me expected it (winning a medal) of myself said Tewksbury 22 ranked No 2 in the POSTAL medals yesterday as Canada enjoyed its most successful day at the sixth world aquatic championships With only today's events remaining Canada has accumulated live medals one gold three silvers and a bronze In diving Bruno Fournier of Sillery Que qualified for the final (top 12) for today's men's platform event Fournier finished 12th with a 10-dive total of 51354 Shuwei Sun of China was the top qualifier with 61467 Tewksbury'S silver is first and only swimming medal so fhr in the competition It was very nearly gold Jeff Rouse of the United States confirmed his No 1 world ranking touching in a world championship record time of 5523 Tewksbury was just six-one-hundredths of a second behind at 5529 Martin Lopes Zubero of Spain was third in 5561 get any closer than said Tewksbury making up fbr the disappointment at the 1986 championships when he finished fourth i i i i i i i i i i TEWKSBURY: 'I expected It of myself' MJUL1M-IPJL I BATA SIMMY MIL XT Call 632-2661 world 100-metres backstroke ask for anything more except Tor maybe a gold around my synchronized swimmers won their third medal of the competition with the silver Earlier Sylvie Frechette of Montreal won a gold in the solo and Kathy Glen of Port Moody BC and Lisa Alexander of Mississauga Ont took the bronze in the duel CLASSIFIED fLAUKiATED COPY AS A KEEPSAKE ON REQUEST).