{"id":1544,"date":"2016-07-25T14:46:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T14:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.porticomagazine.ca\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2020-10-28T14:40:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T18:40:30","slug":"students-to-compete-in-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porticomagazine.ca\/2016\/07\/students-to-compete-in-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Students to compete in Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.porticomagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Evan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1545 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.porticomagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Evan-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"Gryphon swimmer Evan Van Moerkerke qualifies for 2016 Summer Olympics\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/porticomagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Evan-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/porticomagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Evan-768x453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/porticomagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Evan-500x295.jpg 500w, https:\/\/porticomagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Evan-458x270.jpg 458w, https:\/\/porticomagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Evan.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Swimmer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gryphons.ca\/news\/2016\/4\/11\/swimming-van-moerkerke-heading-to-olympics.aspx\">Evan Van Moerkerke <\/a>and triathlete <a href=\"http:\/\/news.uoguelph.ca\/2016\/07\/u-g-student-headed-olympics\/\">Jason Wilson<\/a> will compete in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio in August.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Van Moerkerke, a fourth-year student, earned a spot on the 400m-freestyle relay team during the Canadian Olympic trials held earlier this year. He also qualified for the 2016 world short course championships taking place in December.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.porticomagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/jason-wilson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.porticomagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/jason-wilson-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"U of G student Jason Wilson is first to compete in triathalon for Barbados in 2016 Summer Olympics.\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/porticomagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/jason-wilson-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/porticomagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/jason-wilson-500x694.jpg 500w, https:\/\/porticomagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/jason-wilson-194x270.jpg 194w, https:\/\/porticomagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/jason-wilson.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>Wilson, a fourth-year environmental engineering student, will compete for his home country of Barbados. He will be the first competitor to represent Barbados in the triathlon.<\/p>\n<p>The list of U of G participants in the 2016 Summer Games continues to grow. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uoguelph.ca\">www.uoguelph.ca<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swimmer Evan Van Moerkerke and triathlete Jason Wilson will compete in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[190,192,191],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Students to compete in Olympics -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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