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Speed skater Ivanie Blondin recorded a full assortment of medals, quantity skaters Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha secured an space within the Grand Prix Final, and Brooke Henderson ended up the golf interval with an enormous money advance. Here’s a take a look at the main efficiencies by Canada’s Olympic skilled athletes over the weekend break:
Speed skating: Ivanie Blondin begins strong
Canada’s most embellished energetic skater gained a medal of every color as she made up 3 of Canada’s 4 platform seems on the prolonged observe World Cup interval opener inJapan Blondin took gold within the females’s 3,000 metres, silver in the mass start and teamed with Yankun Zhao for a bronze within the blended relay. Laurent Dubreuil picked up a silver within the males’s 500m.
Blondin’s gold within the 3,000 famous her preliminary World Cup success in a personal race other than the mass start (her trademark event) in 5 years. The blended relay bronze was Canada’s first-ever medal within the self-control, which signed up with the World Cup program final interval. It was moreover the preliminary World Cup medal for the 20-year-old Zhao.
Last interval, Canada’s prolonged observe skaters balanced relating to 4 medals per World Cup give up and befell to win a national-record 10 medals on the solitary ranges globe champions in Calgary.
The World Cup tour proceeds this Friday by way of Sunday in Beijing.
Figure skating: Lajoie and Lagha pay money for an space within the Grand Prix Final
Ice skilled dancers Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha took silver whereas Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud made each bronze on Saturday on the Cup of China, the final routine give up on the Grand Prix of Figure Skating tour.
Lajoie and Lagha have been moreover the runners-up at Skate Canada International in October, offering adequate signifies join with ice skilled dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier and ruling units globe champs Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps at following month’s Grand Prix Final in France.
Pereira and Michaud didn’t get the Final, and no Canadians made it within the personal males’s or females’s events.
Golf: Brooke Henderson shuts the 12 months with an important money advance
The three-time Olympian made merely timid of $120,000 United States for linking for eighth space on the LPGA’s season-ending Tour Championship in Naples, Fla., onSunday Henderson ended up 9 pictures behind Thailand’s Jeeno Thitikul, that went eagle-birdie on the final 2 openings to defeat American Angel Yin by spherical.
Thitikul, 21, pocketed $4 million for the success — the biggest victor’s reward in females’s golf background.
Other Canadian outcomes:
* Reigning females’s skeletal system globe champ Hallie Clarke ended up seventh in Saturday’s World Cup race inBeijing The 20-year-old was sixth and 14th within the interval openers per week beforehand in South Korea.
* 2023 ski leaping globe champ Alexandria Loutitt began a brand-new World Cup interval by ending up eighth and tenth in a set of females’s enormous hillside events inLillehammer Abigail Strate, that gained an Olympic group bronze together with Loutitt in 2022, put ninth and 18th.
* Laurence St-Germain ended up eleventh in Saturday’s females’s slalom in Austria as American superstar Mikaela Shiffrin grabbed her record-extending 99th career World Cup win Shiffrin will definitely chooseNo 100 in a while immediately in Vermont.
* Freestyle skiers Olivia Asselin and Megan Oldham have been eighth and ninth, particularly, within the females’s slopestyle World Cup opener inAustria Max Moffatt ended up twelfth within the males’s opponents.
