It's been a busy month for the Whitehorse Glacier Bears swim club – one that's seen four medals come back to the Yukon and numerous records broken.

"It's been really exciting,” said Alexandra Gabor, who just brought back two World Cup bronze medals from Berlin, Germany and Stockholm Sweden earlier in November, and won a gold at the Canada Cup in Toronto this past weekend.

Exciting is right – Gabor has been competing against the best in the world, and the best in Canada these past weeks.

At the Canada Cup, Gabor finished a full two seconds faster than the rest of the field, a rare occurrence in world-class swimming. Most leaders are separated by tenths of seconds.

"I was expecting it to be a closer race,” she said. Most likely Gabor's opponents were thinking just the opposite.

In addition to her first place in the 200 metre freestyle, Gabor placed fourth in the 100 metre freestyle – which was 5/100ths of a second off a bronze medal, sixth in the 400 metre freestyle and seventh in the 50 metre freestyle. Her win in the 200 metre freestyle was the first time a Whitehorse Glacier Bear has ever won a Senior National Championship event.

For her performance at the Canada Cup, Gabor was awarded the Swimming Canada High Point Swimmer of the Meet award, which is based on the highest FINA ranking points from the winners of the 50, 100 or 200 metre freestyles.

The Canada Cup came on the heels of the World Cup circuit Gabor has been racing in, which hasn't allowed much down time for Canada's best swimmers.

"No one's really rested,” said Gabor.

While she was well ahead of her competition at home in Canada, Gabor didn't have the same edge on the World Cup circuit.

"It was really fast,” she said. The 16-year-old swimmer was up against the fastest young women in the world.

Gabor said the international meets were packed with spectators from all over the world.

"(It was) really loud, it was a good atmosphere,” she said. "People came from all over the world to compete.”

Gabor enjoys travelling; she was able to see parts of Berlin during the 20th anniversary of the falling of the Berlin Wall, but said it would be nice to see a World Cup date stop at home.

"It would be fun to have them in Canada,” Gabor said.

The recent meets Gabor has attended have been the first ones to use the new FINA swimsuit rules, and Gabor said a few athletes were behind due to the setback in technology.

Gabor said the difference between the new suits and the old ones, is that there is no "easy speed,” and swimmers have to work a bit harder to maintain their fastest times.

"It's hard to go faster,” Gabor said.

On Friday, the young athlete won the International Athlete of the Year award from Sport Yukon, beating cross-country skier Janelle Greer for the honour.

"I'm in great company with the people who have won it in the past,” said the humbled young athlete.

Gabor hopes she is making the Yukon proud with her many achievements.

Gabor wasn't the only Whitehorse Glacier Bear to take home a medal at the Canada Cup this weekend.

Fellow Bear Bronwyn Pasloski swam to a bronze medal in the 100 metre breast stroke against the top female swimmers in Canada who have just returned from the World Cup.

"It was pretty good,” said Pasloski on Tuesday afternoon.

Pasloski's other results were fifth in the 200 metre breaststroke, sixth in the 100 metre individual medley, eighth in the 100 metre breaststroke and 37th in the 100 metre freestyle. Her performance saw her break two club records, one in the 100 metre individual medley and the other in the 200 metre breaststroke.

Pasloski has yet to make an appearance on the World Cup circuit but this is her second medal at the Canada Cup, and many of the young women she managed to beat had just returned from Europe.

"I'm racing these girls who have been very successful,” she said. "The competition is crazy up there.”

While Pasloski is happy with her placement, she feels she could have moved up.

"I could have had a little more to give,” she said.

The Canada Cup was 17-year-old Pasloski's biggest event of the year so far, and a national qualifying event. Already a member of the B.C. Junior swim team, Pasloski started off the year with a bang.

"That was really nice to start off the year as high as I did,” Pasloski said. "Hopefully it doesn't just stop there.”

Her Canada Cup result bodes well for the rest of the season, which she is looking forward to.

"It's always really exciting,” she said. Pasloski is focusing on the Commonwealth Games trials, as well as a few other big meets in the spring and early summer.

In the meantime, Pasloski said she needs to work on her mental training to improve her swimming further.

Pasloski will compete in Oregon at the Paul Bergen Jr. Memorial Meet next week.

"It's a really fun meet,” she said. "I'm definitely looking forward to going faster next week.”

Gabor will rejoin the Whitehorse Glacier Bears for the Christmas Cracker Meet in Victoria next weekend, and then she is on to Australia for three weeks for a meet and camp with the Canadian Junior Swim Team.