London may be hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics but Pittsburgh has it own impressive collection of gifted athletes—all born before 1952. These amazing older adults competed in the annual Citiparks Summer Games in June and wrapped up the events with a big celebration in July.

Avid participant Rosemarie Wilczynski sparkled once again in the 2012 Summer Games competition. Rosemarie, a member of the Healthy Active Living program at the Lawrenceville Center, reeled in a grand total of 12 medals, including seven gold medals in archery, darts, horseshoes, golf, Kooshball, shuffleboard and the walk-athon. She also was a silver medalist in bocce, pool/8-ball and Wii bowling, and a bronze medalist in the frisbee toss and softball throw.

An awards banquet was held at the newly renovated South Side Market House on June 29 following the completion of the Summer Games, where medal winners were recognized and lauded for their efforts. Mayor Luke Ravenstahl greeted the banquet members and presented commemorative gold, silver and bronze medals to the award recipients.

Three other Summer Games participants earned an impressive nine medals apiece in the women's division: Dolores Stromberg and Phyllis Haduch, both from Mt. Washington, and Christel Krausse, a member of the Morningside Center. Dolores’ total included seven gold medals, while Christel earned six gold medals and Phyllis captured four gold medals.

Two other leading medalists in the women's division were South Side's Joan Eisenbarth and Lawrenceville's Mary Szulborski, who both finished with eight medals each.

The top competitor in the men's division was a relative newcomer to the Summer Games: Albert Cross of South Side. He corralled eight medals: one gold (darts), four silver (frisbee toss, Kooshball, shuffleboard and Wii bowling) and three bronze (archery, bocce and softball throw).

Albert was followed by South Side's Duke Winkowski and Castle Shannon's Bob Baker, who ended up with seven medals apiece. Duke won two gold medals, while Bob took home one.

Next in line was a group of six-time medalists: Herb Buettner and Francis Grassel of Beechview, Bob Horton and Mary Ellen Purnell of Lawrenceville, Jim Cichra of Sheraden and Betty Callio of South Side.The five-time medal recipients consisted of Lawrenceville's Gerald Cirell, Don Gearhart, Dorcas Byrnes and Margaret Erario; Sheraden's Wayne Jelenik, Jim Weaver and Ralph Reynolds; West End's Richard Keller, South Side's Bernard Bright and Homewood's Jenny Thompson.

There is an impressive list of participants who earned four medals, comprised of Ann Tkacik and Rita Ernharth of Sheraden, Frances Sokol and Mike Urbaniak of Elder-Ado, Charles Seay and Gretchen Bryant of Homewood, Charles Kehren and Milton Jones of South Side, Nalda Millender and Vivian Williams of Northview Heights, George Locke of Hazelwood, Frank Rizzo of Mt. Washington, Richard Barton of Lawrenceville, Kenneth Tintelnot of Bethel Park and William Carey of Greenfield.

Triple medalists consisted of Barbara Robinson and Charles Gilbert of Hazelwood; Sandra Gearhart, Doreen Lyden and Stanley Mikolajek of Lawrenceville; Carol Coultas, Carolyn Boyd, Patricia Toney and Judy Winkowski of South Side, Giovanna Palmieri of Greenfield; Ben LeDonne, John Kushner and Edward Hendrick of Sheraden; Patrick Carmack of Cedarhurst; and Alberta Bey of Homewood.