THUNDER BAY — City police officers have brought back a haul of hardware after competing at the 2023 World Police and Fire Games.
The biennial event was held in Winnipeg and brought more than 8,500 police officers and firefighters together to compete in various competitions like archery, bodybuilding, curling, table tennis and swimming and many others.
Officers from Thunder Bay put everything they had into competing and brought back many medals for their efforts.
In total, five officers representing the city's police association brought home 10 gold medals, seven silvers and three bronze.
Det. Rick Popwich took the competition record in the 120-kilogram and over bench press competition (55-to-59-year-old division).
Det.-Const. Shane Baker:
- Gold medal in the men’s traditional long/recurve, 50+ division, 900 target round.
- Gold medal in the Field Archery round, traditional division.
- Gold medal in the 3D archery competition.
Staff Sgt. Joe Dampier:
- Silver medal in the freestyle unlimited compound division, target archery event.
- Gold medal in men’s high jump.
- Gold medal in the men’s decathlon.
Det.-Const. Ryan Doucette:
- Gold in the 22-yard trap shoot.
- Gold in the 16-yard trap shoot (sudden death round).
- Gold for overall trap events.
- Silver in the skeet shooting double team event.
- Silver in the skeet shooting single team event.
- Silver in sporting clays shoot event.
- Silver in the sporting clays team shoot event.
- Silver for high overall for all shotgun events for the week.
- Silver medal in Team Skeet shooting competition.
- Bronze in the 16-yard, team trap shoot event.
- Bronze in the 22-yard, team trap shoot event.
- Bronze in the doubles trap team event.
Sgt. John Read:
- Gold medal in the 120kg and under bench press competition, 55-50-year-old division.
