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Joyce Yakubowich - Wikipedia

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Joyce Yakubowich

Personal information

Birth name

Joyce Sadowick

Born

29 May 1953
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Died

24 March 2024 (aged 70)^[1]

Sport

Country

Canada

Sport

Women's athletics

Medal record

Pan American Games

	1975 Mexico City	400 m
	1975 Mexico City	4 × 400 m relay
	1975 Mexico City	4 × 100 m relay
Commonwealth Games
	1970 Edinburgh	4 × 100 m relay

Joyce Yakubowich (née Sadowick; 29 May 1953 – 24 March 2024) was a Canadian track and field sprinter who competed mainly in the 200 metres and 400 metres. She was the 400 m gold medallist at the 1975 Pan American Games, where she also won relay medals. She twice represented Canada at the Summer Olympics (1972, 1976) and was a three-time Canadian national sprint champion.

Career

Born in Burnaby, British Columbia,^[2] she made her international debut at age seventeen at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games. She was eliminated in the heats of the 400 m, but managed to secure a bronze medal with the Canadian women's 4 × 100 m relay team, which included Joan Hendry, Patty Loverock and Stephanie Berto.^[3] She went on to attend the University of Victoria and broke several track records, including one for the 300 metres which remains unbeaten.^[4]

Yakubowich ran at the 1971 Pan American Games and made her first individual final, taking sixth in the 400 m. With the Canadian relay team she missed a medal, taking fourth some distance behind bronze medallists Jamaica.^[5] Her first national titles came at the 1972 Canadian Track and Field Championships, where she claimed both the 200 m and 400 m races – the latter in a championship record of 54.1 seconds.^[6] An Olympic debut came the following year at the 1972 Munich Games, but the 19-year-old failed to make it out of the heats.^[2] She gained her first individual medal a year later at the 1973 Pacific Conference Games, taking 400 m bronze.^[7]

The 1975 season proved to be the peak of her career. First, she won the third and final national title of her career in the 200 m.^[6] She was chosen to compete in four events at the 1975 Pan American Games. She placed sixth in the 200 m final, recording a lifetime best time of 23.34 seconds. She gave a dominant performance in the women's 400 m final, defeating American Debra Sapenter by over half a second to win the gold medal in 51.62 seconds – another lifetime personal record and also a games record. Another games record and gold medal came with the 4 × 400 m relay team of Margaret McGowen, Rachelle Campbell, and Joanne McTaggart, which she led off to victory to 3:30.36 minutes. A third medal of the games for Yakubowich came in the 4 × 100 metres relay: running the anchor leg off McTaggart and 100 m minor medallists Patty Loverock and Marjorie Bailey the team took the bronze.^[8]^[9]^[10]

She made two further high-profile international appearances in her career following her Pan American success. She returned to the Olympic stage at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, running in the 400 m quarter-finals and placing eighth in the relay final on home turf alongside fellow Canadians Margaret Stride, Campbell and Yvonne Saunders.^[2] Her last outing was for the Americas team at the 1977 IAAF World Cup: running with Cuba's Aurelia Pentón and Jamaicans Jacqueline Pusey and Helen Blake, she placed fifth.

International competitions

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Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
1970	British Commonwealth Games	Edinburgh, United Kingdom	6th (heats)	400 m	55.2
1970	British Commonwealth Games	Edinburgh, United Kingdom	3rd	4 × 100 m relay	44.68
1971	Pan American Games	Cali, Colombia	6th	400 m	54.88
1971	Pan American Games	Cali, Colombia	4th	4 × 400 m relay	3:41.23
1972	Olympic Games	Munich, Germany	6th (heats)	400 m	54.59
1973	Pacific Conference Games	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	3rd	400 m	54.0
1975	Pan American Games	Mexico City, Mexico	6th	200 m	23.34
			1st	400 m	51.62 GR
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	43.68
			1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:30.36 GR
1976	Olympic Games	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	7th (q-finals)	400 m	55.02
1976	Olympic Games	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	8th	4 × 400 m relay	3:28.91
1977	IAAF World Cup	Düsseldorf, Germany	5th	4 × 400 m relay	3:31.0

National titles

Canadian Track and Field Championships^[6]
- 200 m: 1972, 1975
- 400 m: 1972

References

^ Joyce Yakubowich's obituary
^ ^a ^b ^c Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Joyce Yakubowich". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
^ Games Results for Joyce Ladowick. Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved on 13 February 2016.
^ Vikes Men's and Women's Track 2010. Victoria Vikes. Retrieved on 14 February 2016.
^ 1971 Pan American Games. Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 14 February 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c Joyce Yakubowich. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 13 February 2016.
^ Pacific Conference Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 14 February 2016.
^ Pan American Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 14 February 2016.
^ Joyce Yakubowich. Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 14 February 2016.
^ 1975 Pan American Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 14 February 2016.

External links

v t e Pan American Champions in women's 400 metres
1971: Marilyn Neufville (JAM) 1975: Joyce Yakubowich (CAN) 1979: Sharon Dabney (USA) 1983: Charmaine Crooks (CAN) 1987: Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB) 1991: Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB) 1995: Julia Duporty (CUB) 1999: Ana Guevara (MEX) 2003: Ana Guevara (MEX) 2007: Ana Guevara (MEX) 2011: Jennifer Padilla (COL) 2015: Kendall Baisden (USA) 2019: Shericka Jackson (JAM) 2023: Martina Weil (CHI)

Pan American Champions in women's 4 × 400 metres relay

1971: C. Toussaint, E. Stroy, G. Norman, M. Laing (USA)
1975: J. Yakubowich, M. MacGowan, R. Campbell, J. McTaggart (CAN)
1979: E. Kelley, S. Dabney, P. Jackson, R. Bryant (USA)
1983: A. Jackson, J. Brown, E. Gabriel, K. Bolton (USA)
1987: D. Dixon, R. Stevens, V. Brisco-Hooks, D. Howard (USA)
1991: J. Miles, M. Malone, N. Kaiser, T. Downing (USA)
1995: I. Bonne, S. Morales, N. McLeón, J. Duporty (CUB)
1999: J. Duporty, Z. Calatayud, I. Bonne, D. Pernía (CUB)
2003: M. Barber, M. Robinson, J. Clay, D. Trotter (USA)
2007: A. Martínez, D. Pernía, Z. Calatayud, I. Terrero (CUB)
2011: A. Martínez, D. Peña, S. Clement, D. Bonne (CUB)
2015: S. Little, K. Jefferson, S. Wimbley, K. Baisden (USA)
2019: L. Irby, J. Stepter, A. Cockrell, C. Okolo (USA)
2023: Z. Hechavarría, R. Almanza, S. Diago, L. Veitía (CUB)

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