Ben Thorne's silver medal in the 20-kilometre race walk on Thursday capped off the first week of action for UBC Thunderbirds athletes at the Summer Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea.
A Canadian record holder, field hockey siblings and one of the country's top young swimmers are among the UBC Thunderbird athletes who will participate in the Toronto 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games.
Twenty athletes with ties to the UBC Thunderbirds are in Edmonton, competing at the Canadian Track and Field Championships, which run today through Sunday.
Thirteen current or recently-graduated UBC Thunderbirds student-athletes are in South Korea, having earned the honour of representing their country at the 28th Summer Universiade, which runs July 3-14 in the city of Gwangju.
