Local athletes bring home medals from Warrior Games

By Meredith Kruse
The Virginian-Pilot
© May 25, 2011

Four Navy athletes headed home to Hampton Roads with medals from the 2011 Warrior Games, a competition for wounded or seriously ill service members.

Petty Officer 1st Class Robert "Steve" Lipscomb, a logistics specialist from Williamsburg who's battled cancer, was chosen to be a torchbearer for the competition, held last week in Colorado Springs. Lipscomb also won a bronze medal as a member of the Navy's wheelchair basketball team, which defeated Air Force 13-12.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Angelo Anderson, a combat-injured hospital corpsman currently at Portsmouth Naval Medical Center, took a silver in the 200-meter wheelchair dash and bronze medals in wheelchair basketball and the 100-meter wheelchair dash.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Oswald Gould, an aviation machinist's mate from Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, took a bronze in the mixed 4 x 100-meter relay.

And Chief Petty Officer Daniel Hathorn of Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, the ultimate champion of the 2010 games, captured four gold medals in swimming: 50-meter backstroke, 50-meter freestyle, 100-meter freestyle and mixed 200-meter freestyle relay. He also played on the bronze-medal-winning wheelchair basketball team.

The Navy/Coast Guard team came in second overall in the competition. Top honors and the chairman's cup went to the Marines, who earned 73 medals in all.

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