It’s turning into a golden week for Richmond’s Magnus Batara at the 2015 Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles.
The 23-year-old swimmer captured Thursday’s 100 metre M1 butterfly event with a dominating performance, finishing 10 seconds ahead of Canadian teammate Matthew Hunter with a locking of 1:14.00. Mexico’s Josue Flores was third.
The result came two days after Batara was a member of Canada’s winning 4x100 medley relay team. He combined with teammates Elliot Moskowy, Andrew Perez and Michael Qing to finish ahead of the United States.
Batara is scheduled to compete in the 100 and 200 metre breaststroke finals on Friday. The World Games features over 7000 athletes from 177 countries, competing in 26 different sports.
Batara is among 115 Canadian athletes, the largest team Canada has ever sent to the World Games.
