Victoria triathletes capture para bronze medal in Birmingham Commonwealth Games
BIRMINGHAM, England — It is said good things come to people who wait. They did for triathlete Jessica Tuomela and guide Emma Skaug, both of Victoria, who won the bronze medal Sunday in the 2022 Commonwealth Games women’s para-triathlon race. These are the first major multi-sport Games in which para sports have equal inclusion. Tuomela’s medal comes just over two decades after the 38-year-old won silver in swimming in the 2000 Sydney Paralympics.
Tuomela, a native of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., was blinded at the age of three by retinoblastoma. She swam in the 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Paralympics. Tuomela broke her retirement and returned to sports as a triathlete in 2017 and relocated to the national training centre in Victoria and placed fifth last summer in the Tokyo Paralympics. But the lead up to the Birmingham Commonwealth Games was particularly tough yet Tuomela, with the help of Skaug, perservered.
“I don’t think I can put into words how proud I am of seeing someone that I work with and really care about … like, I love [her], like literally,” said Skaug. Triathlon Canada, based in Victoria, saw its hopes for another medal, fall short with a sixth place in the mixed relay. The medals went to England, Wales and Australia.
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