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Emma Saaltink: Multisport Athlete of the Year

By Terry Tinkess A few minutes later Saaltink would
return to the podium, this time to claim the
mma Saaltink walked away from the
award for the female triathlon. She started
E50th Benson Cornwall Lions Club
competing in triathlon at the age of fourteen,
Sports Award Dinner with trophies in two
but in the past year she has really come into
categories, just for doing things she loves to
her own, placing second in her age group
do.
at the Mont Tremblant Ironman competition
“It’s great to receive an award for last summer which qualified her for the

participating in sports that I find really fun,” Ironman worlds. She also finished second

said Saaltink in accepting her first award at the “Double Muscle” event at Geneva,

of the evening as Athlete of the Year in the New York and wrapped up her local season
Multisport category. placing second at the Cornwall triathlon.

Saaltink is a very busy young woman. She She placed tenth in the World Ironman
is a member of the Cornwall Fastbreakers triathlon in Las Vegas last September.
Senior “A” hockey team, a six-time
In accepting her second award, Saaltink
participant and a four-time winner of the
conveyed the feeling that regardless of what
Raisin River Canoe Race, and she loves to
sport you participate in, you never do so
run, entering almost every event she can.
alone.
This winter, she also discovered snowshoe
racing, and for a change-of-pace she is a “I’d like to thank the Cornwall Sea Lions

member of the Cornwall Sea Lions Masters According to Emma Saaltink, getting an award Masters swim team, they are a great group
for participating in sports is a really great
swim club and has qualified for the World of people, and the Cornwall Multi-sport

thing. Photo by Terry Tinkess
Masters Swim Championships being held in club as well,” said Saaltink. “They have a
Montreal later this year. succeed. really good core group of people that will

In accepting the award, Saaltink did what “Thanks to all the coaches and everyone train with you no matter what the weather
those who know her would have expected: who makes this a really supportive and no matter how much you increase the
she gave credit to those who helped her community,” she said. distance.”
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