Canada Day 4 Review
Day 4 saw Canada win 15 medals (3 gold, 5 silver, 7 bronze) for a great day. Here's how we did for each sport.
3x3 Basketball
Almost a perfect day for us as the women and both wheelchair teams booked their spot to the finals. The women will face against England while the wheelchair teams will have a double header against Australia. The men's team lost to England in the semis and will play for bronze against Scotland.
Beach Volleyball
Pavan/Melissa won their match against Kenya without any trouble. They will play their final group stage match against New Zealand on Wednesday in hopes of finishing in top spot.
Boxing
Canada had two boxers competing today with both of them winning their respective bouts. Beausejour won his round of 16 match against Barbados in the men's light heavyweight and will face a boxer from Scotland. Al-Ahmadieh won his round of 16 match against Australia in the men's featherweight and will face a boxer from Guyana in the quarterfinals. All of our boxers are now in the quarterfinals and are one win away from winning at least bronze.
Cycling
Kelsey Mitchell finished her games with a fourth medal, a bronze in the women's keirin. We also won a second bronze medal in the women's scratch via Maggie Coles-Lyster. Overall, I was expecting a little bit more from our track cycling team, but New Zealand really did a number in denying us gold medals.
Field Hockey
In an embarrassing fashion, we were seconds away from losing to Ghana, but we scored a late goal to tie things up 1-1. Our next opponent will be India on Wednesday.
Gymnastics
Canada won two silver and two bronze across the five apparatus finals held today. We were quite close at grabbing a gold medal, but it was not to be. Despite a relatively weaker team in artistic gymnastics we may not end up too far from the medal total from 2018. Of course, the lack of gold medals will be a bit glaring.
Judo
I was hoping for two golds, but we managed a gold and silver thanks to the Deguchi sisters. I have high expectations of our judo team so hopefully everyone can pull through.
Squash
Holly Naughton pulled off the upset and will now compete in the semifinals of the women's singles. The downside is the other three players are the top 3 seeds of the tournament so my expectation for a shock medal is being kept in check. Still I wish her good luck in her next two matches.
Swimming
We won four medals today with McIntosh winning gold in the women's 200m IM, Masse winning silver in the women's 200m back, Acevedo picking up a bronze in the 50m back and Berube winning bronze in the women's 100m SB6 breaststroke. Additionally, Smith and Savard have qualified to the women's 100m free finals and Liendo and Knox have qualified to the men's 100m butterfly finals.
Weightlifting
A perfect day for Canada as all three of our competing athletes won a medal, including a gold via Charron in the women's -64kg. We have now won more medals relative to 2018 and we still have six more athletes remaining to compete.