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Family, friends, fans

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Game faces

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It was all a blur

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Action shots

Perhaps the most quintessential type of sport photo is…the action shot.

Triathlon

The women’s triathlon featuring Canadian Emy Legault is scheduled to start at 8:00 a.m. local time / 2:00 a.m. ET. The men’s triathlon featuring Charles Paquet and Tyler Mislawchuk should follow at 10:45 a.m. local / 4:45 a.m. ET. The men’s triathlon was originally scheduled for July 30, however poor water quality in the Seine caused the event to be rescheduled.

Swimming

The morning session of swimming on Day 5 (11:00 a.m. – 12:06 p.m. local / 5:00 a.m – 6:06 a.m. ET) will see multiple Canadians fighting to move on to semifinals as they compete in preliminary heats. Kelsey Wog will swim in the women’s 200m breaststroke heats, Blake Tierney will swim in the men’s 200m backstroke heats, and Summer McIntosh, who already has two medals to her name, will swim in the women’s 200m butterfly heats. For each of these events, the semifinals will take place in the evening session, 8:30 p.m.-11:10 p.m. local / 2:30 p.m – 5:10 p.m. ET.

Ilya Kharun will compete in the men’s 200m butterfly final at 8:37 p.m. local / 2:37 p.m. ET. He was third-fastest in the semifinals

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Diving

Caeli McKay and Kate Miller will compete in the women’s synchronized 10m platform final at 11:00 a.m local / 5:00 a.m. ET. Teammates Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray snagged a bronze medal in the men’s 10m synchro on July 29.

Artistic Gymnastics

Félix Dolci and René Cournoyer will represent Team Canada in the men’s all-around final, kicking off at 5:30 p.m. local time / 11:30 a.m. ET. They qualified for the final in 21st and 24th position, respectively. On Monday they were part of Canada’s eighth-place finish in the men’s team event, the first time the country had ever competed in the men’s team final at the Olympic Games.

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Beach Volleyball

Two Canadian teams will hit the sand at the base of the Eiffel Tower on Day 5 of the Games. Sam Schachter and Daniel Dearing will take on Evandro Goncalves Olivieria and Arthur Diego Marian Lanci of Brazil. The match will take place at 8:00 p.m. local / 2:00 p.m. ET.

Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson will play Switzerland’s Zoe Depre-Verge and Esmee Boebner at 9:00 p.m. local / 3:00 p.m. ET.

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Boxing

Tammara Thibeault will box in her first match of the women’s 75kg tournament against Cindy Djankeu Ngamba of the Olympic Refugee Team at 5:06 p.m. local / 11:06 a.m. ET.

Badminton

Michelle Li will kick things off for Team Canada on Day 5 with a women’s singles group play match against Akane Yamaguchi of Japan at 8:30 a.m. local time / 2:30 a.m. ET. Brian Yang will play a men’s singles group play match against Kenta Nishimoto of Japan in the afternoon session, which starts at 2:00 p.m. local time / 8:00 a.m. EST.

3×3 Basketball

Team Canada’s women’s 3×3 basketball team of Katherine Plouffe, Michelle Plouffe, Paige Crozon and Kacie Bosch will take on Team China at 6:00 p.m. local / noon  ET. The Canadians won their first game against Australia on Day 4, with a score of 22-14.

READ: Team Canada secures first ever Olympic 3×3 win against Australia

Fencing

Team Canada will be on the piste for the men’s team sabre Table of 8, facing off against South Korea at 1:30 p.m. local / 7:30 a.m. ET. The tournament will continue all day, with the podium being decided starting at 7:30 p.m. local / 1:30 p.m. ET.

Football (Soccer)

The Canadian women’s soccer team will take on Team Colombia at 9:00 p.m. local time / 3:00 p.m. ET. Team Canada has won their first two games of the tournament thus far, defeating New Zealand 2-1 on July 25, and taking down the host nation of France 2-1 on July 28. Colombia will be their final match of group play.

Rowing

Jill Moffatt and Jenny Casson will row in the lightweight women’s double sculls semifinals. The Canadian duo will compete in heat one of two, alongside the USA, Great Britain, New Zealand, Poland and Argentina. Each heat features six boats, with the top three in each semifinal advancing to the A Final.

Shooting

Tye Ikeda will compete in the men’s 50m rifle 3 positions qualification round, taking place at 9:00 a.m. local / 3:00 a.m. ET.

Sailing

The last three races of the opening series for the 49erFX and 49er are on the schedule. The top 10 boats in each event after 12 races will advance to the Medal Race on August 1. Georgia and Antonia Lewin-LaFrance are in 11th place after nine races in 49er FX. In the 49er class, Will Jones and Justin Barnes sit in 16th after nine races.

Table Tennis

Mo Zhang will take on France’s Jia Nan Yuan in the women’s singles round of 32 at 12:00 p.m. local / 6:00 a.m. ET.

Tennis

Félix Auger-Aliassime will play Daniil Medvedev (Individual Neutral Athlete) in the third round of the men’s singles tournament. Auger-Aliassime will also compete in the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles tournament with Gaby Dabrowski, taking on Team USA’s Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz. It’s also a double match day for Dabrowski, who will play alongside Leylah Annie Fernandez in the second round of the women’s doubles tournament. They will play Mirra Andreeva and Diana Schnaider (Individual Neutral Athletes).

Equestrian

It will be Grand Prix Day 2 for both individual and team dressage. Camille Carier Bergeron (Finnländerin) will be up for Canada after Naïma Moreira Laliberté (Statesman) and Chris von Martels (Eclips) competed on Day 1. Competition begins a 10:00 a.m. local / 4:00 a.m. ET.

Water Polo

Team Canada’s women’s water polo team will play China in the women’s preliminary round at 3:35 p.m. local / 9:35 a.m. ET.

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Swimming

Summer McIntosh provided the day’s big headline when she won gold in the women’s 400m individual medley, adding the title of Olympic champion to the titles of two-time world champion and world record holder she already owned in the event. 

READ: Summer McIntosh wins 400m IM gold at Paris 2024 

Just over an hour later, Mary-Sophie Harvey finished fourth in the final of the women’s 200m freestyle. Swimming in lane 8, Harvey missed the podium by three-quarters of second in her first individual Olympic final. 

READ: McIntosh wins second medal of Paris 2024; two Canadians to swim in women’s 100m backstroke final

Two Canadians will swim in Tuesday’s final of the women’s 100m backstroke. Kylie Masse and Ingrid Wilm ranked fifth and sixth, respectively, in the semifinals. Masse has been on the podium in this event at the last two Olympic Games while Wilm won bronze at this year’s world championships. 

Ella Jansen had joined McIntosh in the morning heats of the 400m IM, finishing 11th in her Olympic debut. 

Judo

World number one judoka Christa Deguchi did exactly what she came to Paris to do: win Olympic gold in the women’s 57kg event. It was Canada’s first gold medal of Paris 2024. She took down world number three Huh Mimi of South Korea in the final to become Canada’s first ever Olympic champion in judo.

READ: Judoka Christa Deguchi wins Canada’s first gold medal at Paris 2024

Arthur Margelidon came within one win of getting a shot at a bronze medal in the men’s 73kg event. After losing in the quarterfinals, he was placed into the repechage but lost by ippon to Italy’s Manuel Lombardo. 

Diving

Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray made history for Canada, winning the country’s first ever Olympic medal in the men’s synchronized 10m platform event, diving to bronze. 

Wiens and Zsombor-Murray scored 422.13 for their six dives, which put them on the third step of the podium behind the gold medallists from China and silver medallists from Great Britain.

READ: Wiens & Zsombor-Murray dive to bronze in men’s 10m synchro at Paris 2024

Rugby Sevens

Canada will have the opportunity to play for a medal in women’s rugby after advancing to the semifinals with an 19-14 upset win of the host team France in the quarterfinals. In a tight tie game, Chloe Daniels scored the game-winning try with under a minute remaining, rewarding Canada for their constant pressure and silencing a crowd of close to 70,000. Canada had gotten into the quarterfinals following their 26-17 victory over China in their final preliminary round game earlier in the day.

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Skateboarding

Team Canada had three skateboarders in action on Day 3 at Paris 2024. Cordano Russell advanced to the final of the men’s street event, finishing seventh with a total score of 211.80. That is Canada’s best Olympic result in skateboarding since the sport debuted at Tokyo 2020.  

Teammates Matt Berger and Ryan Decenzo did not advance through to the final, finishing 11th and 18th, respectively in the prelims.

Artistic Gymnastics 

In Canada’s first ever appearance in the men’s Olympic team final, René Cournoyer, Félix Dolci, William Émard, Sam Zakutney, and Zachary Clay finished eighth. In the final, each team put three athletes up on each apparatus with all three scores counting towards the team total. The Canadians started very strongly on vault and continued to put up solid routines that had them in sixth place until their final apparatus, pommel horse, which gave them some troubles. 

While the Games have come to an end for Clay, Émard, and Zakutney, there is one more event for Cournoyer and Dolci who compete in the men’s all-around final Wednesday.

Tennis

Leylah Annie Fernandez continues to cruise, defeating Cristina Bucsa of Spain in the second round of the women’s singles tournament with a score of 7-6, 6-3. No Canadian woman had ever previously advanced to the third round of the tournament, making Fernandez’s performance the best ever by a Canadian woman, with more matches to come.

Bianca Andreescu fell to Croatia’s Donna Vekic 3-6, 4-6.

Gabriela Dabrowski and Fernandez won their first-round women’s doubles match over Clara Burel and Varvara Gracheva of France with a 6-1, 7-5 victory. Their next opponent is not yet determined. 

Milos Raonic and Félix Auger-Aliassime were defeated in the first round of men’s doubles by the American team of Tommy Paul and Taylor Fritz, 7-6, 6-4.

Boxing

Wyatt Sanford emerged victorious from his Round of 16 matchup with Radoslav Simeonov Rosenov of Bulgaria in the men’s 63.5kg event, winning all five judges in a close bout. He will move on to the quarterfinals. He will face Ruslan Abdullaev of Uzbekistan on August 1.

Rowing

Team Canada’s women’s eight finished third in their heat behind Great Britain and Australia. They will proceed to a repechage heat, as only the first boat of each heat proceeds directly to the A Final. Canada also rowed in a repechage en route to their gold medal at Tokyo 2020.

Lightweight double sculls duo Jill Moffatt and Jenny Casson competed in repechage heat one, finishing second behind Ireland. They now proceed to the semifinals.

Basketball

Canada’s women’s basketball team lost their opening game of the tournament to France, 75-54.

Playing in front of an energetic crowd at Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Lille, France took complete control in the second quarter, stifling Canada on defence, and converting on great looks on offence. They outscored Canada 23-2 in the second quarter, and never looked back.

Kia Nurse and Shay Colley led the way for Canada with 11 points each. The squad shot just 32% as a team, and will need a boost on offence if they hope to advance past group play.

Canada now sits at the bottom of Group B in pool play. They will take on Australia on Thursday in a crucial game – both teams sit at 0-1 and are trying to avoid what would be a dire start to the Games.

Fencing 

There were four fencers in action today for Team Canada. On the men’s side, Daniel Gu, Blake Broszus and Maximilien Van Haaster were all eliminated in the individual foil round of 32.

Pamela Brind’Amour bowed out in the round of 32 in the individual women’s sabre after falling to sixth-seeded Theodora Gkountoura of Greece.

Beach Volleyball

Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson won their opening match of pool play 2-0 (21-16, 21-12) against Giuliana Poletti and Michelle Sharon Valiente Amarilla of Paraguay.

READ: Humana-Paredes and Wilkerson off to scorching start

Heather Bansley and Sophie Bukovec fell 2-0 (15-21, 19-21) to a tough Chinese team of Chen Xue and Xinyi Xia.

Badminton

Four athletes were in action today for Team Canada. Brian Yang kicked off his men’s singles group stage with a 2-0 victory (21-18, 21-10). Michelle Li followed that on the women’s side with a 2-0 victory of her own, winning 21-16, 25-23. 

Adam Dong and Nyl Yakura lost their third and final match of group play in men’s doubles 2-0 at the hands of Great Britain (14-21, 12-21).

Canoe Slalom 

Alex Baldoni was competing in the men’s C-1 semifinal and finished 15th with a time of 127.41.

Cycling – Mountain Bike

Gunnar Holmgren finished 30th in the men’s cross-country race, one day after his sister, Isabella Holmgren, finished 17th in the women’s event.

Equestrian

Team Canada finished 11th in team eventing, following the third and final test – jumping. Karl Slezak (Hot Bobo) was the top Canadian, finishing 32nd individually, followed by Michael Winter (El Mundo) in 35th and Jessica Phoenix (Freedom GS) in 38th.

Sailing 

With another three races under their belt, Georgia and Antonia Lewin-Lafrance sit in 13th in the 49erFX class.

Will Jones and Justin Barnes sit in 17th through six races in the 49er class.

Water Polo

Canada’s women’s water polo team fell in its first preliminary round matchup to World No. 4 Hungary.

The Hungarians jumped out to an early 4-1 lead, but Canada fought hard to close the gap as the game carried on. Canada cut the lead to 7-5 late in the third period, but the brakes came off for Canada’s defence in the fourth. They allowed four goals and ultimately fell by a score of 12-7.

Canada still has three preliminary round match-ups remaining, with the next coming on Wednesday against China. China is 0-2 so far in Olympic play.

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Here’s what Team Canada athletes are up to on Day 3 of Paris 2024.

Team Canada Athletes Competing Today

Artistic Gymnastics 

The highly anticipated men’s artistic gymnastics team event final will get started at 5:30 p.m. local time / 11:30 a.m. EST. Team Canada took the eighth and final spot in the qualification round to move on to the final, achieving the team’s big goal of advancing to the team final–the first time ever that Team Canada has done that. Other teams in the final include China, Japan, Great Britain, Ukraine, USA, Italy, and Switzerland. China ranked first in qualification.

Swimming

Team Canada fans will want to keep their eyes on the pool again. The morning session from 11:00 a.m. – 12:07 p.m. local time / 5:00 – 6:07 a.m. EST will feature the heats for the women’s 400m individual medley, the final for which will happen during the evening session, taking place from 8:30-10:08 p.m. local time / 2:30 – 4:08 p.m. EST. Canada’s Summer McIntosh is a two-time world champion and owns the world record in the event, which was set at the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Trials in May. 

Marie-Sophie Harvey will compete in the evening session in the women’s 200m freestyle final.

The morning session will also feature Kylie Masse and Ingrid Wilm in the women’s 100m backstroke heats, hoping to move on to the evening session’s semifinals.

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Judo

Day 3 features two Team Canada judokas in action. Arthur Margelidon will compete against Behruzi Khojazoda of Tajikistan in the men’s -73 kg class at 10:00 a.m. local time / 4:00 a.m. EST.

Christa Deguchi will be one to watch in the women’s -57 kg class. As the world number one, she has a bye into the round of 16. 

Judokas will continue to advance through the tournament throughout the day, with the podium in both events decided during the afternoon session from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. local time / 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. EST.

Skateboarding

Heavy rain on Day 1 of Paris 2024 necessitated the rescheduling of the men’s street competition to Day 3.

Matt Berger, Cordano Russell, and Ryan Decenzo will compete in the men’s street prelims beginning at 12:00 p.m. local time, 6:00 a.m. EST. Street skateboarding courses are meant to imitate urban terrain, with features like stairs, rails, and benches, as well as some of the traditional elements of skateparks, like quarterpipes. Athletes are judged by five judges, with each of the highest and lowest scores dropped, and the remaining three scores are averaged to provide the overall score for each run and trick. Team Canada’s riders will be looking for a top-eight finish overall in the heats in order to move on to the final. The men’s street final will take place at 5:00 p.m. local time / 11:00 am local time

Diving

Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray will compete in the men’s synchro 10m platform at 11:00 a.m. local time / 5:00 a.m. EST. The duo won bronze at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, which was Canada’s first ever world championship medal in the event.

Boxing

Team Canada boxer Wyatt Sanford will compete in the round of 16 in the men’s 63.5kg class at the North Paris Arena.

Rowing

Canada’s last lightweight double sculls duo, Jill Moffatt and Jenny Casson will race in repechage heat 1 on Day 3 at 11:00 a.m local time / 5:00 a.m. EST. There are two repechages, each with five boats; the top three from each heat will advance to the semifinals.

The women’s eight are also in action at 12:00 p.m. local time / 6:00 a.m. EST, racing in heat 1 alongside Great Britain, Denmark and Australia. Heat 2 features Romania, Italy and the USA. The winner of each heat will advance to the A final, with the others going to the repechage.

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Fencing 

Day 3 is set to be a busy day on the piste for Team Canada, with four fencers in action, including three in men’s foil. Blake Broszus is up first with a bout against Kruz Schembri of the Virgin Islands, at 9:35 a.m. local time / 3:35 a.m. EST. Daniel Gu is up next against Victor Alvares de Oliveira of Cabo Verde at 9:55 a.m. local time / 3:55 a.m. EST. Maximilien van Haaster will compete against Takahiro Shikine of Japan at 12:35 p.m. local time / 6:35 a.m. EST. 

On the women’s side, Pamela Brind’Amour will take on Theodora Gkountoura of Greece in the women’s individual sabre at 11:40 a.m. local time / 5:40 a.m. EST.

In both events, fencers will progress through the tournament all day, with the podium being decided during the final session, which begins at 8:50 p.m. local time / 2:50 p.m. EST.

Basketball

Team Canada’s women’s basketball team gets their Olympic tournament started with a game against the host nation of France at 5:15 p.m. / 11:15 a.m. EST. Team Canada will play in Group B alongside France, Nigeria, and Australia.

Rugby Sevens

Canada takes on China at 4:00 p.m. local time / 10:00 a.m. EST in their third group play game. Depending on their ranking in the pool, they will either advance to the quarterfinals or play in a classification game.

Canoe Slalom 

Alex Baldoni will compete in the semifinals of the men’s C-1 at 3:30 p.m. local time, 9:30 a.m. EST, aiming to advance to the final later in the day. 

Cycling – Mountain Bike

It’s Gunnar Holmgren’s turn to take on the cross-country course, after his sister Isabella Holmgren, finished 17th in the women’s race on Day 2. The men’s race goes off at 2:10 p.m. local time / 8:10 a.m EST, with 36 riders in a mass start.

Badminton

It’s a busy day on the courts for Team Canada’s badminton players, with four athletes in action on Day 3. Brian Yang will start things off in the men’s singles tournament against Kazakhstan’s Dmitriy Panarin at 3:40 p.m. /  9:40 a.m. EST. In the evening session Michelle Li will play Myanmar’s Thuzar Thet Htar in the women’s singles tournament at 7:30 p.m. local time / 1:30 p.m. EST. After that Adam Dong and Nyl Yakura will take on Great Britain’s Ben Lane and Sean Vendy in their final group play match of the men’s doubles tournament at 8:20 p.m. local time / 2:20 p.m. EST.

Tennis

Tennis action on Day 3 will start at 12:00 p.m. local / 6:00 a.m. EST. Félix Auger-Aliassime and Milos Raonic will play USA’s Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul in the first round of the men’s doubles tournament. Bianca Andreescu will play Croatia’s Donna Vekic in the second round of the women’s tournament and Leylah Annie Fernandez will play Cristina Bucsa of Spain, also in the second round of women’s singles. In women’s doubles first round action, Fernandez will double back to play with Gaby Dabrowski against Clara Burel and Varvara Gracheva.

Beach Volleyball

Both of Team Canada’s women’s beach volleyball duos are in action on Day 3. Sophie Bukovec and Heather Bansley play their second match of the tournament, this time against China’s Xue Chen and Xia Xinyi. The Canadians fell to Team USA’s Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth in their first match.

Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson’s first match of the tournament, at 3:00 p.m. local time / 9:00 a.m. EST, is against Paraguay’s Giuliana Poletti and Michelle Sharon Valiente Amarilla.  

Water Polo

Team Canada’s women’s water polo team will face off against Team Hungary at 8:05 p.m. local time / 2:05 p.m EST at the Aquatics Centre. Team Canada is playing in Group A with Hungary, Netherlands, Australia and China. The top four teams from each of Group A and B will move on to the quarterfinals.

Equestrian

The final phase of individual and team eventing will conclude with the jumping test. After the dressage and cross country competitions, Team Canada sits in 11th in the team standings. Individually, Karl Slezak with Hobo Bobo leads Team Canada in 27th place, followed by Michael Winter and El Mundo in 38th and Jessica Phoenix and Freedom GS in 49th.

Sailing 

Canadian sailors are back on the water in Marseille. Starting at 12:15 p.m. local time / 6:15 a.m. EST sisters Georgia and Antonia Lewin-LaFrance will complete their next three races in the women’s 49erFX class. The sister duo won their first race of the Games, and enter Day 3 in sixth place overall.

On the men’s side, Will Jones and Justin Barnes will also compete in their next three races in the men’s 49er class. Jones and Barnes enter Day 3 in 17th place.

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Read on to find out more about when all of Team Canada’s athletes are in action on Day 2.

Team Canada Athletes Competing Today

Swimming

Swimming action will feature two sessions, with the morning session of heats running 11:00 a.m-1:00 p.m local / 5:00 a.m-7:00 a.m. EST, and the evening session of semis and finals running from 8:30 p.m.-10:15 p.m. local time / 2:30 p.m-4:15 p.m. EST.

Reigning Olympic champion Maggie Mac Neil will aim to defend her gold medal in the women’s 100m butterfly during the evening session. 

During the morning session Tristan Jankovics (men’s 400m IM) will race in the heats with the aim of making the evening final. Mary-Sophie Harvey (women’s 200m freestyle), Sophie Angus (100m breaststroke), Javier Acevedo (100m backstroke) and Blake Tierney (100m backstroke) will also race in the morning heats, with the hopes of advancing to the evening’s semifinals.

READ: Returning and first-time Olympic swimmers set to make a splash at Paris 2024

Canoe/Kayak Slalom

Lois Betteridge will race in the semifinals of the women’s K-1 at 3:30 p.m. local time / 9:30 a.m. EST. The 12 fastest paddlers advance to the final, which will take place at 5:11 p.m. local time / 11:11 a.m. EST.

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Cycling – Mountain Bike

Isabella Holmgren will compete in the women’s cross-country mountain bike race. The mass start goes off at 2:10 p.m. local time / 8:10 am EST and will feature 36 riders.

Artistic Gymnastics

Women’s artistic gymnastics gets going on Day 2 at Paris 2024 at 9:30 a.m. local time / 3:30 a.m. EST. Team Canada is represented by Ellie Black, Shallon Olsen, Cassie Lee, Ava Stewart and Aurélie Tran. Gymnasts will compete on vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise. Four gymnasts will compete on each apparatus, with the top three scores counting towards the team total. Results from the qualification phase of competition will impact whether athletes advance to the team, all-around, and apparatus finals.  

READ: Ellie Black set to be first Canadian artistic gymnast to compete at four Olympic Games

Fencing

With the women’s foil tournament off and running, Team Canada athletes Jessica Guo, Eleanor Harvey and Yunjia Zhang will take to the piste. Competition starts at 9:30 a.m. local / 3:30 a.m. EST. Nicholas Zhang will compete in the men’s individual épée, which kicks off at 10:00 a.m. local / 4:00 a.m. EST. The tournament for each event will continue all day, with medal bouts taking place in the evening at the Grand Palais.

Judo

Kelly Deguchi will get things going for Team Canada’s judokas, as the women’s -52 kg competition begins. Her first bout will be against Uta Abe of Japan at 10:00 a.m. local time / 4:00 a.m. EST. Competition will continue for the duration of the day, with the full podium being decided during the evening session.

Rowing

Canada’s last Olympic lightweight double sculls duo, Jill Moffatt and Jenny Casson, begin competition, with heats starting at 11:30 a.m. local time / 6:30 a.m. EST. After Paris 2024, the lightweight double sculls event will be retired from the Olympic programme.

READ: The last of the lightweights: Jill Moffatt and Jenny Casson set to close a chapter in Canadian Olympic rowing history this summer

Beach Volleyball

Team Canada’s men’s beach volleyball team will jump into action on Day 2! Daniel Dearing and Sam Schachter will take on Team Czechia’s Ondrej Perusic and David Schweiner at 5:00 p.m. local time / 11:00 a.m. EST. Team Canada is playing in Pool E alongside Czechia, Austria and Brazil. Games will take place at a court constructed at the base of the Eiffel Tower. 

Football (Soccer)

The reigning Olympic gold medallists will take on the host nation France at 9:00 p.m. local time / 3:00 p.m. EST. The Canadians are playing in Group A alongside France, New Zealand and Colombia. Team Canada won their first game of the group play stage against New Zealand on July 25, with a score of 2-1.

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Surfing

Over in Teahupo’o, Tahiti, Canada’s first surfing Olympian, Sanoa Dempfle-Olin, will hit the water, competing at 7:00 p.m. CET / 1:00 p.m. EST.

READ: Surfing 101 with Sanoa Dempfle-Olin

Sailing 

Down in the south of France at Marseille Marina, Team Canada’s sailors are taking to the water. The sister duo Georgia and Antonia Lewin-Lafrance will race in the 49erFX class starting at 3:35 p.m. local time / 9:35 a.m. EST. Justin Barnes and Will Jones will begin their campaign in the 49er class starting at 3:45 p.m. local time / 9:45 a.m. EST.

READ: A tale of two sailing sisters en route to Paris 2024

Rugby Sevens

Day 2 is a double game day for Team Canada’s women’s rugby squad. They’ll take on Fiji at 5:30 p.m. local time / 11:30 a.m. EST, before turning around to play New Zealand at 9:30 p.m. local time / 3:30 p.m. EST. Team Canada is playing in Pool A alongside Fiji, New Zealand, and China.

READ: Team Canada’s women’s rugby players put their trust in one another at Paris 2024

Shooting

Tye Ikeda will compete in the men’s 10m air rifle qualification rounds at 11:15 a.m. local time / 5:15 a.m. EST. The top eight athletes in the qualification round move to the final.

Tennis

With rain wreaking havoc on the Day 1 tennis schedule, there are lots of Canadians playing on Day 2! 

Félix Auger-Aliassime will start things off for Team Canada at noon local time, with his rescheduled match against Team USA’s Marcos Giron on court Simonne-Mathieu. At the same time, Bianca Andreescu will face off in her rescheduled match against Clara Tauson of Denmark on court 11.

Leylah Annie Fernandez will also play a rescheduled match against Czechia’s Karolina Muchova. They will play fourth on court 14. Milos Raonic will play against Germany’s Dominik Koepfer. They will play fifth on court 7.

Fernandez will double back for another rescheduled match, this time in the women’s doubles tournament, alongside Gaby Dabrowski. They will play against France’s Clara Burel and Varvara Gracheva, sixth on court 13.

Volleyball

Team Canada’s men’s volleyball team will take on Slovenia at 9:00 p.m. local time / 3:00 p.m. EST. Team Canada is playing in Pool A alongside Slovenia, France and Serbia. After the preliminary round robin, the top two ranked teams and two best third-ranked teams in each pool will advance to the quarterfinals.

Table tennis

Eugene Wang will get things going for Team Canada’s table tennis players with his first match of the men’s singles tournament. Wang will take on Shunsuke Togami of Japan at 12:15 p.m. local time / 6:15 a.m. EST. Edward Ly will face Panagiotis Gionis of Greece, also in the men’s singles tournament, at 9:00 p.m. local time / 3:00 p.m. EST. 

Badminton

Nyl Yakura and Adam Dong will play their second match of the men’s doubles group play against Team Malaysia at 9:20 a.m. local time. The duo dropped their first match on Day 1 with a final score of 2-0 (21-5, 21-12) to China’s Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang, the number one ranked team in the world.

Equestrian 

Eventing action continues on Day 2 at Versailles with individual and team cross country beginning at 10:30 a.m. local time / 4:30 a.m EST. After yesterday’s dressage test, Team Canada’s Jessica Phoenix, Karl Slezak and Michael Winter sit in 14th in the team event. Individually, Winter leads Team Canada in 42nd place, followed by Phoenix in 43rd and Slezak in 46th

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Swimming

Summer McIntosh earned Canada’s first medal of Paris 2024, taking silver in the women’s 400m freestyle. She finished in 3:58.37 to place 0.88 behind Australian Ariarne Titmus.

READ: Summer McIntosh wins silver for Canada’s first medal of Paris 2024

There were two other finals featuring Canadians on the opening night in the pool. Less than an hour after her individual race and just five minutes after her medal ceremony, McIntosh was part of the fourth-place finish (3:32.99) in the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay with Maggie Mac Neil, Taylor Ruck, and Penny Oleksiak. 

In the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay just after, Josh Liendo, Yuri Kisil, Finlay Knox, and Javier Acevedo placed sixth in 3:12.18. 

Saturday night also featured the semifinals of the women’s 100m butterfly. Reigning Olympic champion Mac Neil advanced to the final tied for the fourth-fastest time. Rebecca Smith had competed in the morning heats but did not advance to the semis.

Fencing

It was a day of upsets for a couple of Team Canada fencers. The big one was in the men’s individual sabre. Fares Arfa defeated three-time defending Olympic champion Aron Szilagyi (Hungary) 15-8 in his opening bout in the Table of 32. He then took down one of the home favourites, Bolade Apithy, 15-8 in front of a loud partisan French crowd at the Grand Palais in the Table of 16.  

But Arfa’s run came to an end in the quarterfinals, as third seed Oh Sanguk of South Korea got the 15-13 victory. With his eighth-place finish, Arfa earned Canada’s best ever Olympic result in any men’s individual fencing event.  

That had come after Ruien (Angel) Xiao began her day in women’s individual epee with an upset of eighth-seed Nathalie Moellhausen of Brazil, getting the 15-11 win. Xiao, who was the youngest athlete in the field at age 16, took down the second-oldest competitor, aged 38, who is also a former world champion. In the Round of 16, Xiao pushed Ukraine’s Olena Kryvytska into overtime, but ended up losing by one point, 15-14.    

Canada’s other two entries in the men’s individual sabre, François Cauchon and Shaul Gordon, were both eliminated in their first bouts. Cauchon dropped his Table of 64 match 15-13 to Argentina’a Pascual Maria di Tella, while Gordon fell 15-10 to Italy’s Luigi Samele in the Table of 32.

Artistic Gymnastics

Team Canada’s René Cournoyer, Zachary Clay, Félix Dolci, William Émard and Samuel Zakutney kicked off their competition with the qualification round for men’s artistic gymnastics. The team finished the qualifying session with a cumulative score of 247.794, which was good enough for eighth place and a spot in the team event final. Advancing to that final had been their primary goal coming into the Games. 

Dolci was the team’s top scorer on high bar, floor exercise, vault and parallel bars. He advanced to the all-around final with a total of 81.498. Cournoyer, who scored 80.798, will join him in that all-around final.

Basketball

In their first appearance at the Olympic Games in 24 years, the men’s basketball team opened with an 86-79 win against Greece.

RJ Barrett and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the way for Canada offensively. Barrett opened the scoring for Canada at the very beginning of the game with a lay-up, and his breakaway dunk in the closing seconds sealed Canada’s first win at Paris 2024.

Canada led by as much 16, but Greece chipped away at the lead time and time again, bringing the lead down to two with 1:04 remaining in the fourth quarter. A very difficult floater from Gilgeous-Alexander with 42 seconds remaining proved to be the decisive bucket.

Canada will now look ahead to their matchup with Australia on Tuesday. The Aussies upset Spain earlier in the day by a score of 92-80, and sit atop Group A by way of point differential.

Canoe/Kayak Slalom

Alex Baldoni and Lois Betteridge have both advanced to the semifinals of their first events at Paris 2024. Baldoni placed 15th in the men’s C-1 heats while Betteridge was 22nd in the women’s K-1 heats. The semifinals and final of her event will take place on Sunday while Baldoni will be back on the whitewater on Monday.

Road Cycling

Olivia Baril and Derek Gee raced through the streets of Paris in the women’s and men’s individual time trials in road cycling. The 32.4km course started at Les Invalides and finished at the Pont Alexandre III. Athletes had to deal with very wet conditions, leaving the roads slippery.

Baril finished 20th overall in the women’s event, finishing with a time of 43:03.58, which was 3 minutes 25.34 seconds behind the winner, Australia’s Grace Brown.

Gee posted a time of 38:28.17, also good for 20th overall. He was 2 minutes 16.01 seconds back from the winner, Belgian’s Remco Evenepoel, who is fresh off a third place finish at the Tour de France.

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Badminton

Adam Dong and Nyl Yakura kicked things off for Team Canada on Day 1 with a group stage match in men’s doubles. They dropped the match 2-0 (21-5, 21-12) to China’s Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang, the number one ranked team in the world. Dong and Yakura will play again on Day 2.

Equestrian

Team Canada started the equestrian events with the dressage portion of individual and team eventing. As a team, Jessica Phoenix (Freedom GS), Karl Slezak (Hot Bobo) and Michael Winter (El Mundo) sit in 14th place at the end of Day 1. Individually, Winter leads Team Canada in 42nd place, followed by Phoenix in 43rd and Slezak in 46th. The next portion of eventing will take place on Day 2, with individual and team cross country competition beginning at 10:30 a.m. local time, 4:30 a.m EST.

Beach Volleyball

The relatively new pairing of Heather Bansley and Sophie Bukovec had a challenging start to their first Games as a team. Up against the No. 2 world-ranked American pair of Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth, the Canadians fell in two sets (17-21, 14-21).

Bansley is in her third Olympics, having finished fifth twice before (with Sarah Pavan at Rio 2016, and with Brandie Wilkerson at Tokyo 2020). She had turned to coaching after Tokyo, but came out of retirement to team with Bukovec, a first-time Olympian, in July 2023.

The Canadians have two matches left in Pool B of the preliminary phase (Day 3 vs. China, Day 6 vs. Australia).

Shooting

Michele Esercitato finished 17th out of 33 in the men’s 10m air pistol qualification. Only the top eight shooters are moving to the final. The next Canadian shooter to step into action will be Tye Ikeda in the men’s 10m air rifle qualification on Day 2.

Tennis

Rain wiped out most of the matches scheduled for Day 1, except those on covered courts. That meant that Bianca Andreescu, Félix Auger-Aliassime, Leylah Annie Fernandez, and Gaby Dabrowski will have to wait to play their first round matches.

Skateboarding

Though the men’s street event was initially on the schedule, the competition had to be postponed to Day 3 on July 29 because of rain.

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It’s Day 1 of Paris 2024 and you don’t want to miss a moment of these historic Olympic Games. Read on to find out more about when all of Team Canada’s athletes are in action on Day 1.

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Swimming

Team Canada is looking to start day one of swimming with a bang. The morning session of heats begins at 11:00 a.m local time, 5:00 a.m. EST, and the evening session of semis and finals begins at 8:30 p.m, local time, 2:30 p.m. EST. 

The morning session will see the initial heats for one of the most highly anticipated races of the Games–the women’s 400m freestyle. The evening’s final is projected to be a showdown between the last three world record holders in the event–Canada’s own Summer McIntosh, along with American Katie Ledecky and Australian Ariarne Titmus.

The morning session will also feature the heats for the men’s and women’s 4 x 100m relays, for which the final will take place in the evening. 

The morning session will also see reigning Olympic champion Maggie Mac Neil get her Games off to a start, competing in the women’s 100m butterfly heats, alongside teammate Rebecca Smith. The semifinals will take place in the evening session.

READ: Summer McIntosh ready to set the stage for Team Canada success in the Paris 2024 swimming pool

Road Cycling

Day one at Paris 2024 will see both the men’s and women’s road cycling time trial events. On the men’s side, Team Canada will be represented by Derek Gee, who heads to the Olympic Games fresh off of a top-10 finish at the Tour de France. On the women’s side, Olivia Baril will represent Team Canada. The women’s time trial will take place at 2:30 p.m. local time, 8:30 a.m. EST, the men’s event will begin at 4:30 p.m. local time, 10:30 a.m. EST.

Skateboarding

Matt Berger, Cordano Russell, and Ryan Decenzo will compete in the men’s street prelims beginning at 12:00 p.m. local time, 6:00 a.m. EST. Street skateboarding courses are meant to imitate urban terrain, with features like stairs, rails, and benches, as well as some of the traditional elements of skateparks, like quarterpipes. Athletes are judged by five judges, with each of the highest and lowest scores dropped, and the remaining three scores are averaged to provide the overall score for each run and trick. Team Canada’s riders will be looking for a top-eight finish overall in the heats in order to move on to the final. The men’s street final will take place at 5:00 p.m. local time, 11:00 am local time

Fencing

Day 1 will be a full day of fencing for Team Canada, starting with the men’s sabre at 10:25 a.m. local time, 4:25 a.m. EST, featuring François Cauchon, Shaul Gordon, and Fares Arfa. Athletes advance through direct elimination; each bout lasts until 15 hits have been recorded by one competitor, or three periods of three minutes each have passed (at which time the highest scoring fencer is awarded the win). Competition will continue all the way until 9:55 p.m. local time, 3:55 p.m. EST, when the full podium will be decided. Ruen (Angel) Xiao is also in action in the women’s individual épée with her first bout at 12:05 p.m. local time, 6:05 a.m. EST.

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Tennis

Leylah Annie Fernandez will kick things off for Team Canada’s tennis players, as she plays Czechia’s Karolina Muchova at 12:00 p.m. local time, 6:00 a.m. EST in the first round of the women’s singles tournament. Fernandez and Muchova will battle it out on court 9 of Roland Garros, Paris’ iconic tennis venue.

READ: Propulsion: Leylah Annie Fernandez, proud of who she is

Canadian fans should keep their eyes on court 9, as the second match of the session features Team Canada’s Bianca Andreescu playing Denmark’s Clara Tauson in another first round match. 

Fernandez will have the length of two matches to recover before she’s back on court 9 again, this time with teammate Gaby Dabrowski for their first women’s doubles match of the Olympic tournament.

Team Canada’s Félix Auger-Aliassime will take on Team USA’s Marcos Giron, also during the afternoon session at Roland Garros. Auger-Aliassime and Giron play second on court 14, with the first match starting 12:00 p.m. local time, 6:00 a.m. EST. 

Artistic Gymnastics

Action in men’s artistic gymnastics will get underway with the qualification round starting at 11:00 a.m. local time, 5:00 a.m. EST. Team Canada, which includes René Cournoyer, Zachary Clay, Félix Dolci, William Émard and Samuel Zakutney, will be in subdivision one at the start of the day. There are two more subdivisions to follow. 

There are six apparatus in men’s artistic gymnastics: floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars, and horizontal bar. Each team will put up four athletes on each apparatus, with the top three scores counting towards the team result. The top eight teams will advance to the team final. Qualification will also determine the 24 gymnasts advancing to the individual all-around final and the eight finalists for each apparatus final. 

READ: One big goal this summer for Canada’s first Olympic men’s gymnastics team in 16 years

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Basketball

Team Canada’s men’s basketball team kicks off their highly anticipated Olympic tournament with a game against Team Greece at 9:00 p.m. local time, 3:00 p.m. EST. For the group phase of the tournament, Canada will play in Group A with Greece, Australia and Spain. The top eight teams from group play will advance to the quarterfinals.

Beach Volleyball

Heather Bansley and Sophie Bukovec will be the first Canadian team to take to the sand at the Eiffel Tower Stadium, as the beach volleyball venue was constructed at the base of Paris’ most iconic monument. They will face Americans Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth, ranked second in the world, at 10:00 p.m. local time, 4:00 p.m. EST. Bansley and Bukovec will play in Pool B alongside the USA, Australia and China.

Canoe/Kayak Slalom

Alex Baldoni and Lois Betteridge will get things going on the water as canoe/kayak slalom competition begins. Baldoni will compete in the men’s C-1 heats at 3:00 p.m. local time, 9:00 a.m. EST and 5:10 p.m local time, 11:00 a.m. ET. Betteridge will race in the women’s K-1 heats at 4:00 p.m. local time, 10:00 am EST and 6:10 p.m. local time, 12:10 p.m. EST.

Equestrian

Equestrian action will get started at Versailles with the dressage portion of individual and team eventing beginning at 9:30 a.m local time, 3:30 a.m. EST. Eventing includes three tests: dressage, cross country and jumping, with each test contributing to both individual and team results. Team Canada is represented by Jessica Phoenix, Karl Slezak and Michael Winter. 

Shooting

Michele Esercitato will compete in the qualification rounds of the men’s 10m air pistol at 10:30 a.m. local time, 4:30 am EST. Each athlete is scored based on the accuracy of sixty shots, with the top eight athletes advancing to the final.

Badminton

Adam Dong and Nyl Yakura will get things started in the men’s doubles group play with a game against China’s Wei Keng Liang and Chang Wang at 9:20 am local time, 3:20 am EST. Dong and Yakura were gold medallists at the Santiago 2023 Pan Am Games.

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And as far as endless possibilities go, Petanqui is determined to take boxing as far as he can, with his sights set on representing Canada on the world’s largest stage, the Olympic Games.

“Looking ahead, I’m most excited about reaching new heights in my performance and competing at the highest levels. Each season presents new challenges and opportunities for growth, and I can’t wait to see how far I can push my limits,” says Petanqui.

As a 2024 recipient of the Canadian Olympic Foundation’s Future Olympians Fund (FOF) Award, Petanqui has been granted financial support to help him achieve his goals.

The FOF Award dedicates resources toward Next Gen athletes and their coaches, to support high-level athlete-coach relationships to propel the next generation of Olympians and their coaches forward on the pathway to the podium. 

“The FOF Award will be instrumental in providing the resources I need to train and compete effectively. It will help cover the costs of high-quality equipment, travel to competitions, and access to specialized coaching,” said Petanqui.

Petanqui’s coaches, Vincent Auclair and Samir El Mais, also receive support from the award, which grants athlete and coach recipients with $5,000 each for two years. In the past 10 years, 54 coaches and 48 athletes have benefited from the fund. 

“My relationship with my coaches is fundamental to my success. Their guidance, encouragement, and expertise have been crucial in my development as an athlete. I’m incredibly grateful for their support and look forward to continuing to grow under their mentorship.”

In past years, Future Olympians Fund resources have also been used to provide coaching development opportunities, employ and retain more full-time high-performance coaches. 

Athletes can use the award funds to support their high-performance training expenses such as equipment and development costs to propel forward in pursuit of their Olympic dreams. 

Some young athletes are already on track to compete in their first Olympic Games. Skateboarder Fay De Fazio Ebert has been named to the Canadian Olympic team competing at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games this summer, and snowboarder Anthony Shelly and freestyle skier Charlie Beatty both attended, and medalled, at the Gangwon 2024 Youth Olympic Games last winter. Petanqui has also represented Canada, at the Santiago 2023 Pan Am Games in boxing.

Congratulations to the 2024 FOF Award athlete and coach recipients!

Team Canada will be represented by Michelle Li (women’s singles), Brian Yang (men’s singles) and the duo of Nyl Yakura and Adam Dong (men’s doubles).

Li is Canada’s most successful female badminton player. A six-time singles gold medallist at the Pan Am Championships, she took silver just a few weeks ago in Guatemala. She finished as the runner-up after returning from knee surgery and rehab that kept her out of competing at what would have been her fourth Pan Am Games last fall. 

Paris 2024 will be Li’s fourth Olympic appearance, offering veteran leadership and experience to the team. At Tokyo 2020, Li went 2-0 in group play to advance to the Round of 16–a result that matched the best-ever Canadian finish in women’s singles at any Olympic Games.  

“It always is an amazing feeling and unforgettable experience to qualify for an Olympics. The qualification process itself is such a challenge, it’s an absolute grind to overcome the number of unexpected challenges we face in this year,” said Li. “For me I battled injury, recovery from surgery, change in coaching, training, financial situation and other struggles. I’m really happy I was still able to pull through and qualify for my fourth Olympics.”

In men’s singles, Team Canada will be represented by Yang, suiting up for his second Olympic appearance. Still just 22 years old, he won gold at the Santiago 2023 Pan Am Games, upgrading himself from the silver he took home from Lima 2019.  He has an impressive medal streak at the Pan American Championships, winning gold in 2021 and 2023, silver in 2022, and bronze in 2024.

This past January, he became the first men’s singles player from the Pan American region to ever reach the final of a BWF Super Tour 500 event as he won silver at the Indonesia Masters. 

Yang was unsatisfied with his final placing at Tokyo 2020, where he did not advance past the group stage. He is looking forward to the energy of a post-COVID Games to help spur him on.

“I’m feeling very excited and looking forward to the experience and competing, because even though the qualification race was not super stressful for me compared to Tokyo, I feel like this time I have a better shot at doing well, and it will also have a full crowd and I’m hoping a crazier atmosphere than what Tokyo offered under COVID restrictions” said Yang.

Yakura and Dong will be a formidable pair in the men’s doubles tournament. They won the gold medal at the Santiago 2023 Pan Am Games, winning hearts with their exuberant post-match celebration. They most recently won silver at the 2024 Pan American Championships after taking the title last year. 

The duo have an interesting history together, first competing briefly as a team in 2016 before Dong chose to retire to focus on supporting his young family. While he founded and operated the Lions Badminton Training Centre in Burlington, Ontario, Yakura was part of a successful partnership with Jason Ho-Shue, with whom he made his Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020. 

Yakura and Dong re-forged their partnership in late 2021 when Dong decided he had unfinished business with the sport of badminton. He is now set to compete at his first Olympic Games. 

“I’m super thrilled that Adam and I have qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games! It will be my second time at the Olympics and it’s an amazing opportunity that I am truly proud of and grateful to have achieved alongside Adam and everyone who has been a part of our journey”, says Yakura.

Badminton will be played at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena, with group play beginning on July 27 before the playoff rounds get underway on August 1. 

Team Canada Badminton Athletes at Paris 2024:

Adam Dong (Burlington, Ont.) – Men’s Doubles 

Michelle Li (Markham, Ont.) – Women’s Singles 

Nyl Yakura (Pickering, Ont.) – Men’s Doubles

Brian Yang (Richmond Hill, Ont.) – Men’s Singles

But that wasn’t the only thrill provided by Canadian athletes this weekend. Three medals were won at the home velodrome in Milton at the last competition to count towards Olympic qualification. Summer McIntosh was in fine form at a key tune-up event for the Olympic Swimming Trials next month. Meanwhile, Paris 2024 spots were secured in taekwondo and archery.

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Hockey: Canada wins 13th gold medal at IIHF Women’s World Championship

Call it lucky number 13. In an overtime thriller on Sunday, Team Canada took down archrival Team USA in the gold medal game at the IIHF Women’s World Championship in Utica, New York.

After a back-and-forth affair, Canada came away with the 6-5 victory. Danielle Serdachny played the hero as she buried the golden goal just over five minutes into the overtime period. Captain Clutch Marie-Philip Poulin scored twice in the final, her first goals of the tournament, after an undisclosed injury had hindered her pre-worlds preparations.

READ: Team Canada wins gold at IIHF Women’s World Championship

This was the second-highest scoring final ever between Canada and the U.S., beaten only by Canada’s 7-5 win in 2015. It was the eighth time at the women’s worlds that the final went beyond regulation.

Canada had finished the preliminary round with a 3-0-1 record, picking up wins against Finland, Switzerland and Czechia, while their only loss came to this same U.S. team — 1-0 in overtime.

On Sunday, they got their revenge, not only for the earlier tournament loss, but also for the loss in last year’s gold medal game in Brampton, Ontario. With 13 gold medals, Canada adds to its record of most women’s world titles.

Track Cycling: Three Nations Cup medals at home in Milton

Canadian track cyclists made sure to give the home crowd something to cheer for in Milton, Ontario at the season’s final stop of the UCI Track Nations Cup — the last competition to count towards Olympic qualification.

READ: Canadian cyclists wins three medals at UCI Nations Cup in Milton

On Friday’s opening night of competition, the trio of Ryan Dodyk, James Hedgcock, and Tyler Rorke raced to the bronze medal in the men’s team sprint. Their time of 43.411 edged out Italy by 0.102 in the head-to-head race for third place. That podium finish bumped Canada up to eighth place in the UCI Team Sprint Olympic Ranking, which is just what they needed to achieve to qualify the men’s team sprint for Paris 2024.

Earlier in the evening, 20-year-old Dylan Bibic captured gold in the men’s elimination race, an event that is not on its own part of the Olympic program. It was the second time this year Bibic has won an elimination race, after taking gold at the opening stop of the UCI Track Nations Cup in Adelaide, Australia in February. On Saturday, Bibic placed fourth in the omnium, the Olympic program event in which the elimination race is one of four different races featured.

Lauriane Genest capped off the weekend with a bronze medal in the women’s keirin, the event in which she won Olympic bronze at Tokyo 2020. Genest had come close to another podium after racing in the first two rounds of the women’s sprint. In the bronze medal final, Jackie Boyle, Kelsey Mitchell, and Sarah Orban came up just short against Poland. But Canada is still in the top eight in the UCI Team Sprint Olympic Ranking.

Canada — represented by Erin Attwell, Ariane Bonhomme, Maggie Coles-Lyster and Sarah Van Dam — also finished fourth in the women’s team pursuit. Now fifth in the UCI Team Pursuit Olympic Ranking, Canada is well positioned to qualify in the event for Paris 2024. Coles-Lyster went on to finish sixth in the women’s omnium.

Swimming: Four wins for McIntosh highlight Canadian Swimming Open

Summer McIntosh won four events in as many nights at the inaugural Canadian Swimming Open in Toronto, a key tune-up for the Olympic Trials which will take place in that same pool at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre in mid-May.

The 17-year-old had opened the meet by posting the fastest time in the world this year in the women’s 200m freestyle, clocking 1:54.21.

On Friday, she upset Maggie Mac Neil in the 100m butterfly, out-touching the reigning Olympic champion in the event by 0.05 as McIntosh posted a personal best 57.19 seconds. That came a day after they had also finished 1-2 in the women’s 100m freestyle, with McIntosh taking the win in 53.90 to Mac Neil’s 54.01. Mary-Sophie Harvey rounded out the podium with a time of 54.27, slightly ahead of Penny Oleksiak, who finished fourth in 54.43. McIntosh wrapped up the meet on Saturday with a victory in the 200m individual medley.

“I’m continuing to work on back-to-back races and more races on the sprintier side of things,” McIntosh said. “I’m more of a mid-distance swimmer overall, but kind of developing my speed and finishing off races as well as possible is something that I learned a lot at this meet.”

Finlay Knox, the reigning world champion in the men’s 200m IM, did not compete in that event this weekend, but did reach the podium in several events. He won the 100m breaststroke and 100m butterfly and finished second in the 200m breaststroke.

Taekwondo: Kafadar qualifies for Paris 2024

Skylar Park will be joined at Paris 2024 by Josipa Kafadar, who finished top two in the women’s 49kg at the Pan American Olympic Qualification Tournament earlier in the week. Kafadar defeated Colombia’s Andrea Ramirez in the semifinal to book her Olympic ticket.

Archery: Men’s team just misses Olympic qualification

The Canadian men’s recurve team is coming home from the Pan American Archery Championships with the silver medal after a tough loss to the host team in the final in Medellin, Colombia. Canada — represented by Eric Peters, Crispin Duenas, and Devaang Gupta — were in the lead after the first two sets before the Colombians came back to tie it by winning the next two sets, sending the match to a shootout. Canada’s three arrows scored 9, 7 and 9 while Colombia hit 10, 9 and 9 for the win.

The gold medal would have qualified Canada in the men’s team event for Paris 2024. Currently, Canada has won men’s Olympic quota spot thanks to Peters’ silver medal at the 2023 World Archery Championships. They still have the opportunity to qualify a full team at the Final World Qualification Tournament in June.

In other events, Virginie Chénier won bronze in the women’s individual recurve and joined with Peters to win bronze in the mixed team event. Just ahead of the continental championships, Chénier and teammate Kristine Esebua were the finalists in the women’s individual recurve at the Pan American Olympic Qualifier, securing one quota spot for Canada for Paris 2024.

Rowing: Top 5 finish for Moffatt and Casson at World Cup opener

Jill Moffatt and Jenny Casson raced to fifth place in the women’s lightweight double sculls at World Rowing Cup I in Varese, Italy. They were the only Canadians entered at the opening stop of the circuit. The duo had finished fourth at the 2023 World Rowing Championships, which qualified Canada in the event for Paris 2024.

The next World Rowing Cup takes place May 24-26 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Moffatt and Casson will be joined there by the women’s eight, in which Canada is also qualified for Paris 2024. That competition will be preceded by the World Rowing Final Olympic Qualification Regatta at the same venue. Canada will be sending the men’s eight and women’s quadruple sculls to race for Olympic quota spots.

Badminton: 6 medals for Canada at Pan Am Championships

As the Olympic qualification window moves closer to closing, Canadian badminton players won six medals at the Pan American Championships in Guatemala.

Michelle Li won silver in women’s singles, sharing the podium with bronze medal-winning teammate Rachel Chan. Brian Yang won bronze of his own in men’s singles.

Adam Dong and Nyl Yakura took the silver medal in men’s doubles. Josephine Wu captured a pair of bronze medals, in women’s doubles with Catherine Choi and in mixed doubles with Ty Lindeman.

The BWF “Race to Paris Ranking List” on April 30 will be used to allocate by name all Olympic spots for Paris 2024.