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Alaska's Special Olympians will leave World Games with 9 medals

Alaska's four-person contingent at the Special Olympics World Summer Games will return home Monday with nine medals.

Garrett Stortz of Palmer, the last of the four Alaskans to compete in Los Angeles, captured a bronze medal in golf Friday to add to the Alaskans' medal count.

Stortz, 24, fired a career-best 77 to finish third in the level five competition.

"These outstanding athletes rose to the occasion and performed their personal best at each event and we are so proud of all that they have accomplished," Jim Balamaci, the president and CEO of Special Olympics Alaska, said in a press release.

The Alaskans earned three gold medals, two silvers and four bronzes.

In competition earlier last week, C.J. Umbs, a 21-year-old swimmer from Juneau, claimed a gold, silver and bronze; Brittany Tregarthen, 27, a powerlifter from Kodiak, earned a silver and two bronzes; and Christine Quick, 23, a swimmer from Juneau, collected two golds.

The four athletes will remain in Los Angeles for Sunday's closing ceremonies and are scheduled to return to Anchorage on Monday afternoon.

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