Canada Day 5 Review
Day 5 saw Canada win 13 medals (5 gold, 5 silver, 3 bronze) for another great day. Here's how we did for each sport.
3x3 Basketball
Finals day saw us medal in all four events, winning two golds in the women's 3x3 and women's wheelchair. The men's wheelchair won silver while the men's 3x3 won bronze. Overall this was a great showing by the Canadian team.
Athletics
The first day of athletics was relatively quiet. I was hoping for a medal in women's pole vault, but that did not materialize. We qualified to various finals, which include men's 400m hurdles, women's 800m and women's shot put.
Beach Volleyball
Our men's team pulled off a win against St. Kitts and Nevis. The final group stage match will be up against Gambia on Thursday for top spot of the group.
Field Hockey
The women's team defeated Ghana 8-1. Our final group stage match will be against India where a win or a draw would send us to the semifinals. We are the underdog, but our team has been playing well so the upset chance is there.
Gymnastics
A relatively quite day for Canada on the second day of apparatus finals. We only won a single bronze medal thanks to Spence on the balance beam. Canada wraps up artistic swimming with 8 medals, but no gold. Next in the coming days is rhythmic gymnastics.
Judo
The second day of judo saw Canada win three medals; gold in the women's -63kg (Beauchemin-Pinard) and a silver and bronze in the men's -81kg (Gauthier-Drapeau and El Nahas respectively). Overall a good a day. Will Canada maintain its 100% medal record on the final day?
Lawn Bowls
Overall a decent day to start off the second set of tournaments. Between our four teams we had a combined record of 3 wins, 1 loss and 1 draw. It's still a bit early to say where we are, but here's hoping for at least one quarterfinal appearance.
Squash
Naughton pulled off a huge upset by defeating top seed King of New Zealand to qualify to the finals. Canada will win a medal in squash. Her opponent tomorrow will be England's Georgina Kennedy.
Swimming
Canada picked up another three medals, Liendo won a gold in the men's 100m butterfly, Rivard won a silver in the women's 200m IM SM10 and we won silver in the mixed 4x100m medley relay. Additionally, Liendo and Masse will compete in the men's 50m freestyle and women's 50m backstroke finals tomorrow.
Weightlifting
Canada won two medals today. It could have been three, but Santavy had to withdraw in the men's -96kg. He would have been favoured to win gold today. The gold medal we did win was courtesy of Laylor in the women's -76kg and the silver medal was won by Ngarlem in the women's -87kg.