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After accumulating 8 medals over the initial 4 days of competitors without arriving of the platform, Canada lastly advanced today inParis Swimmer Nicholas Bennett, that has autism, won the males’s 100m breaststroke SB14 for his 2nd medal of the Games.
Two various other Canadians made the platform on Day 5 to offer the nation its most efficient day of the Games thus far. Wheelchair triathlete Leanne Taylor took bronze in the females’s PTWC occasion while mobility device track racer Austin Smeenk additionally made a bronze in the males’s 100m T34. It’s the initial Paralympic medal for both professional athletes.
Canada resembled including 2 even more triathlon medals today, however Kamylle Frenette put 4th in the females’s PTS5 for the 2nd straight Paralympics while leading challenger Stefan Daniel completed 10th in the males’s PTS5. Daniel, a two-time Paralympic medallist, was leading his race when he collapsed his bike right into a barrier, knocking him out of opinion.
The triathlon races were intended to be held Sunday, however they were rescheduled because of bad water top quality in the Seine river– the exact same trouble that pestered the Olympic triathlons.
In instance you missed it, Canadians caught 4 medals over the weekend break– all silver. In enhancement to Bennett’s second-place surface in the males’s 200m freestyle, swimmer Tess Routliffe was the runner-up in the females’s 200m specific collection SM7 while swimmer Aurelie Rivard and mobility device track racer Brent Lakatos each caught their 12th occupation Paralympic medal.
Other crucial Canadian results today:
* Canada’s females’s resting volley ball group brushed up Rwanda in 3 collections to put 2nd in its team with a 2-1 document and development to the semifinals onThursday The Canadians’ challenger will certainly be figured out Tuesday.
* The Canadian mobility device rugby group shed to France 53-50 in the fifth-place championship game, significance Canada ends up 6th. Japan beat the United States to win its initial Paralympic title after taking bronze at the previous 2Games The united state has actually currently taken silver 3 straight times.
* Wheelchair tennis gamer Rob Shaw shed his quarterfinal in straight collections to second-seeded Dutchman Niels Vink, getting rid of Shaw from the quad songs event.
* Lakatos did not development to the males’s T54 1,500 m last after putting 8th in his warm. None of the 44-year-old mobility device track celebrity’s 12 Paralympic medals have actually can be found in the 1,500 m, however he did take silver finally year’s globe champions.
Here’s a complete summary these days’s most remarkable Canadian efficiencies.
VIEW|Bennett finishes Canadian gold-medal dry spell:
Nicholas Bennett of Parksville, B.C., asserted Canada’s initial gold medal at Paris 2024, and his first-career Paralympic gold medal, by winning the males’s 100-metre breaststroke SB14 last. It’s Bennett’s 2nd medal in Paris, as he swam to silver 2 days previously.
Top Canadian medal come across Day 6
Tuesday’s leading challengers are all on the track. Here they remain in sequential order of their finals:
Zach Gingras in the males’s T38 400m last at 1:20 p.m. ET. The 23-year-old professional athlete with spastic paralysis took bronze in this occasion as a Paralympic newbie in 2021 and silver finally year’s globe champions. His personal-best time of 50.23 secs in the one-lap race rankings 3rd amongst the 9 finalists.
Marissa Papaconstantinou in the females’s T64 200m last at 1:53 p.m. ET. Assuming she advancements with the early morning warms, Papaconstantinou ought to test for her 2nd Paralympic medal. The 24-year-old blade jogger took bronze in this occasion finally year’s globe champions and was a 100m bronze medallist at the 2021 Paralympics in Tokyo.
Bianca Borgella in the females’s T13 100m last at 2:13 p.m. ET. The 21-year-old aesthetically damaged sprinter is a solid platform challenger in her Paralympic launching after taking bronze in the 100m at her initial globe champions in 2014. She additionally took silver in the 200m at the globes, however that occasion is not offered in her category at the Paralympics.
Other Canadians to view on Tuesday
* The Canadian males’s mobility device basketball group tackles the Netherlands in the quarterfinals at 10 a.m. ET. Canada beat Germany 68-52 today to end up 2nd in its team with a 2-1 document, while the Dutch put 3rd in their team at 1-2. Co- flagbearer Pat Anderson blazed a trail for Canada today with 17 factors and got 7 rebounds. The Canadian females’s mobility device basketball group will certainly deal with Germany in their quarterfinals on Wednesday after going 2-1 in team play.
* Canada’s females’s goalball group encounters Israel in the quarterfinals at 9:15 a.m. ET. Canada completed second in its team with a 1-1-1 document, while Israel was 3rd in its team with one win and 2 losses.
* The second-ranked combined sets BC4 boccia group of Alison Levine and Iulian Ciobanu plays both of its group-stage video games, versus China at 4:30 a.m. ET and Croatia at 12:50 p.m. ET. At completion of the day, the leading 2 groups in each team development to the quarterfinals onWednesday Levine was gotten rid of in the quarters of her females’s specific occasion while Ciobanu did not development past the team phase on the males’s side.
VIEW|Setting up Day 6 on CBC Sports’ Rise and Stream:
On Day 6 of the Paralympics, Marissa Papaconstantinou, Bianca Borgella and Sheriauna Haase will certainly all make their Paris 2024 launching. Plus, 3 Canadians contend in Para rider, and Ruth Sylvie Morel starts her 4th Paralympics in mobility device secure fencing. Watch all of it on CBCGem
More on the Paralympics
If you’re questioning what BC4, SB14 and various other such occasion classifications imply, they’re impairment categories. Here’s a handy guide to exactly how they operate in each sporting activity. Classification can be a questionable element of the Paralympics, with some professional athletes also charged of “class doping.” Read extra regarding the stuffed system in this tale by CBC Sports’Myles Dichter
If you missed out on Tuesday’s e-newsletter, below’s our guide on the Paralympics with some enjoyable realities regarding the Canadian group.
For extra tales, video clip and live streams, see CBC Sports’ Paris 2024 site and Paris 2024 application.
How to view the Paralympics
Go below to pick the online occasions you intend to view and discover replays and highlights. See the complete streaming timetable below.
You can additionally capture the activity in Paris through 3 day-to-day online programs on the CBC television network, CBC Gem and CBC Sports’ Paris 2024 site and application. There’s Petro-Canada Paris Prime, organized by Scott Russell, at 2 p.m. ET; Toyota Paralympic Games Primetime, organized by Russell and Stef Reid, at 8 p.m. in your neighborhood time area; and Canadian Tire Paralympics Tonight, organized by Devin Heroux and Roseline Filion, at 11:30 p.m. neighborhood.
Digital protection will certainly additionally consist of day-to-day episodes of Rise and Stream, highlighting the must-see occasions and Canadians to comply with, and Hot Takes, including meetings with professional athletes and experts. Both programs are offered on the Paris 2024 website and on CBC Sports’ YouTube channel, Facebook, Instagram and X. Here’s extra on CBC’s Paralympics protection.
