Feb.28.2010

Rugby Sevens may not enter the Olympic Games until 2016, but Canadian flyer Heather Moyse already has a gold medal to her name after teaming up with driver Kaillie Humphries to win the two-man bobsleigh in Vancouver on Wednesday night.

The Canadian pair led from the outset, breaking the track record at the Whistler Sliding Centre in the first three heats and then posting the second fastest run for a combined time of three minutes 32.28 seconds.

This was enough to give them the gold medal by 0.85 seconds from fellow Canadians Helen Upperton and Shelley-Ann Brown, with Erin Pac and Elana Meyers claiming the bronze medal for USA to give North America a clean sweep of the podium.

The success - Canada's first medal in the event - banishes the disappointment of 2006 when Moyse, then only a few months into her bobsleigh career, acted as brakeman for Upperton and the pair missed out on the bronze medal by five hundredths of a second in Turin.

Later that year Moyse was back on the rugby pitch at the Women's Rugby World Cup and proving one of the stars as Canada finished fourth on home soil in Edmonton behind three-time champions New Zealand, England and France.

Moyse ended the tournament as the leading try scorer with seven in five matches and is now set to turn her attention back to rugby and making the Canada squad for Women's Rugby World Cup 2010 in England from 20 August to 5 September.
Source: www.irb.com