Canadian women won a fourth medal here at the Olympic Aquatic Stadium on Wednesday night when the 4×200-metre freestyle team rallied for bronze.
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Canada’s Jamie Lynn Broder dives for the ball during the Women’s Beach Volleyball preliminary round Pool D match against Marta Menegatti and Laura Giombini of Italy on Day 2 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on August 7, 2016 in Brazil. Canada has one silver and three bronze medals as of August 8, with three of those coming from the women’s swim team. Oleksiak – who along with Ruck were on the 4×100 medal winning foursome – added a silver in the 100 butterfly and Kylie Masse won bronze in 100 backstroke.
As Day 5 of the Rio Olympics comes to an end, Team Canada sets its sights on the sixth full day of competition on Thursday. Before the first relay victory, it had been 20 years since a Canadian woman had medaled at the Olympics.
The nations’ women athletes have been the story in the early going for Canada, accounting for all four medals.
Calgary’s Tara Whitten, a three-time world champion, was seventh in the women’s cycling time trial with a time of 45 minutes 1.16 seconds.
I feel like a superhero.
But the medal was considered bittersweet for some on the team, as it followed a disappointing 17-5 semifinal loss to eventual champion Australia.
“It’s thanks to the three other girls – actually five other girls, because of the morning heats swim – that we could have such a good relay”, Savard said.
“We were kind of the underdogs and that’s the best place to be in”.
Captain Jen Kish, however, couldn’t stop beaming.
“That definitely gave me confidence going into the last hundred, just going has hard as I could”. “I know 11 of my other teammates feel that way too”.
Meanwhile, the Canadian women’s basketball team is looking to stay undefeated. It’s just an ultimate superhero feeling.
As those Canadians who have reached the Olympic podium this week have proven, women are strong and they do excel in sports. Kia Nurse scored 25 points for the Canadians, who trailed by as many as 18 points in the third quarter before outscoring the Serbians 26-10 in the fourth. That means Toronto’s Daniel Nestor and Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil will have to wait to play their men’s doubles semifinal versus Spain’s Rafael Nadal and Marc Lopez.
But Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount.
Kelita Zupancic was eliminated from the women’s 70-kilogram judo event.
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Zupancic defeated Georgia’s Esther Sam in her first match after earning an opening-round bye. Da Silva is the lone Brazilian in the field while both of Hun An’s parents won medals in table tennis at the ’88 Seoul Games.
