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Four athletes from Abbotsford’s Twisters Gymnastics Club heading to Canada Winter Games

Joshua Carroll, Ethan Ikeda, Connor Fielding and Jonathon Ko named to Team B.C.
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Men’s artistic gymnastics team members (left to right) Blake Morfitt, Ethan Ikeda, Connor Fielding, Kai Iwaasa, Jackson Martin and Joshua Carroll-Martini. (Submitted)

Four athletes from Abbotsford’s Twisters Gymnastics Club will be representing British Columbia later this month at the Canada Winter Games in Prince Edward Island.

Locally trained competitors Joshua Carroll, Ethan Ikeda, Connor Fielding and Jonathon Ko have all been named to Team BC for the event, which runs from Feb. 17 to 26 in Charlottetown.

Carroll, Ikeda and Ko are all coached by Richard Ikeda, while Fielding is coached by Ken Ikeda. Richard will also be going to the event as the men’s artistic gymnastics team manager.

Richard was named a Provincial Performance Advisor for men’s artistic gymnastics for Gymnastics BC on Feb. 9, 2022. He had an outstanding career as an amateur in the sport and competed nationally and internationally from 1990 to 2003. Richard won a handful of national medals, excelled at the Commonwealth Games and also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He was inducted into the Abbotsford Sports Hall of Fame in 2003.

Ken also had a remarkable gymnastics career nationally and internationally. He earned a number of national medals and was a gymnastics competitor from 1997 to 2008. Ken went on to compete at the 2004 Summer Olympics and was also inducted into the Abbotsford Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.

The foursome will all compete in men’s artistic gymnastics at the Games. Artistic Gymnastics has been in the Canada Winter Games program since the inaugural event in 1967.

The 2023 edition of the games is the 29th edition and will see 3,600 managers and coaches, across 20 different sports compete for medals.

The men’s artistic gymnastics team also includes: Kai Iwaasa (Vancouver Phoenix Gymnastics), Jackson Martin (Campbell River Gymnastics Association) and team coach John Carroll (Vancouver Phoenix Gymnastics).

For more information, visit gymbc.org/2023-02-02/canada-winter-games-announcement.



Ben Lypka

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