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Speed skater Ivanie Blondin recorded a full collection of medals, number skaters Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha secured an area in the Grand Prix Final, and Brooke Henderson ended up the golf period with a huge cash advance. Here’s a check out the leading efficiencies by Canada’s Olympic professional athletes over the weekend break:
Speed skating: Ivanie Blondin begins solid
Canada’s most embellished energetic skater won a medal of each colour as she made up 3 of Canada’s 4 platform looks at the lengthy track World Cup period opener inJapan Blondin took gold in the females’s 3,000 metres, silver in the mass start and teamed with Yankun Zhao for a bronze in the blended relay. Laurent Dubreuil picked up a silver in the males’s 500m.
Blondin’s gold in the 3,000 noted her initial World Cup success in a private race aside from the mass begin (her trademark occasion) in 5 years. The blended relay bronze was Canada’s first-ever medal in the self-control, which signed up with the World Cup program last period. It was additionally the initial World Cup medal for the 20-year-old Zhao.
Last period, Canada’s lengthy track skaters balanced regarding 4 medals per World Cup quit and took place to win a national-record 10 medals at the solitary ranges globe champions in Calgary.
The World Cup excursion proceeds this Friday via Sunday in Beijing.
Figure skating: Lajoie and Lagha get hold of an area in the Grand Prix Final
Ice professional dancers Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha took silver while Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud made both bronze on Saturday at the Cup of China, the last routine quit on the Grand Prix of Figure Skating excursion.
Lajoie and Lagha were additionally the runners-up at Skate Canada International in October, providing sufficient indicates sign up with ice professional dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier and ruling sets globe champs Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps at following month’s Grand Prix Final in France.
Pereira and Michaud did not get the Final, and no Canadians made it in the private males’s or females’s occasions.
Golf: Brooke Henderson shuts the year with a great cash advance
The three-time Olympian made simply timid of $120,000 United States for linking for 8th area at the LPGA’s season-ending Tour Championship in Naples, Fla., onSunday Henderson ended up 9 shots behind Thailand’s Jeeno Thitikul, that went eagle-birdie on the last 2 openings to defeat American Angel Yin by round.
Thitikul, 21, pocketed $4 million for the success — the largest victor’s reward in females’s golf background.
Other Canadian results:
* Reigning females’s skeletal system globe champ Hallie Clarke ended up 7th in Saturday’s World Cup race inBeijing The 20-year-old was 6th and 14th in the period openers a week previously in South Korea.
* 2023 ski leaping globe champ Alexandria Loutitt started a brand-new World Cup period by ending up 8th and 10th in a set of females’s huge hillside occasions inLillehammer Abigail Strate, that won an Olympic group bronze along with Loutitt in 2022, put 9th and 18th.
* Laurence St-Germain ended up 11th in Saturday’s females’s slalom in Austria as American celebrity Mikaela Shiffrin grabbed her record-extending 99th career World Cup win Shiffrin will certainly chooseNo 100 later on today in Vermont.
* Freestyle skiers Olivia Asselin and Megan Oldham were 8th and 9th, specifically, in the females’s slopestyle World Cup opener inAustria Max Moffatt ended up 12th in the males’s competitors.
