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 FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
8 October 2007
Montana's Special Olympics athletes give it their all in Shanghai
(Shanghai, China,
8 Oct 2007) Four Special Olympics Montana
athletes are making friends and breaking boundaries at the 2007
Special Olympics World Summer Games. Julie
Bertelsen of Bozeman, Stuart
Brownlow of Helena, Tawny
Gray of Alberton and Michelle
Hardy of Billings left
Montana
on September 26, arriving in
Shanghai
,
China
on September 28. They will return
home at 12:28pm Saturday October 13 at the
Bozeman
International
Airport
.
Montana
's athletes began competing on October 6. Michelle
Hardy and Stuart Brownlow completed their preliminaries in
Athletics today and will compete in finals Oct. 9-11.
Stuart Brownlow will compete in 1500m run and 3000m run.
Michelle Hardy will compete in 100 meter run and 200 meter run.
Equestrian
athletes Tawny Gray and Julie Bertelsen have already completed one
of three events. Julie
Bertelsen won the Gold Medal in the working Trails
competition and Tawny Gray
placed fourth in the Prix Caprilli event. Both
Tawny and Julie still have the Dressage and English Equitation
events coming up in the next few days.
Attached please
find photos of
Montana
athletes taken from www.specialolympicsteamusa.org/gallery.php.
Michelle Hardy cheers on Team
USA
from the stands. Stuart Brownlow races in a Team USA relay
race.
Also attached is
a picture of
Montana
's delegation to the World Summer Games. From Left to
Right: Stuart Brownlow, Julie Bertelsen, Michelle Hardy, Tawny
Gray. (Photo taken by SOMT staff)
For up-to-date
information on the athletes visit www.somt.org.
Follow the Team USA scores at www.2007specialolympics.com.
About
Special Olympics
Special Olympics is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering individuals with intellectual disabilities to become physically fit, productive and respected members of society through sports training and competition. Founded in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and competition to 2.5 million adults and children with intellectual disabilities across 165 countries. The Special Olympics movement offers one of the world’s greatest platforms for acceptance and inclusion for all people–regardless of race, religion, ethnicity or cultural differences. Find out how you can become involved at www.somt.org
Contact: Darlene Bos
Development Director
Special Olympics Montana
406-216-5327 ext. 107
800-242-6876
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