Canadian Olympic medal recap: Podium performances in Paris

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Canadian Olympic medal recap: Podium performances in Paris

Canada set a non-boycotted Summer Olympic record with 27 medals at Paris 2024.

The previous record was 24, set in Tokyo three years ago.

Canada also captured a non-boycotted Summer Games high of nine gold medals, two more than in Tokyo and Barcelona in 1992.

Canada finished 11th overall in the medal standings, the same spot as Tokyo.

The United States led the way with 126 medals, 35 more than China. Each of those countries won 40 gold medals.

Here’s a look at all of Canada’s medals.

Total medals

27

Gold

9

Silver

7

Bronze

11

Day 15

Philip Kim (Gold, men’s breaking)

Better known as Phil Wizard, the Vancouver dancer captured gold in this sport’s Olympic debut. Wizard, the 2022 world champ, beat France’s Danis Civil in the gold-medal battle. The sport is not on the 2028 Los Angeles Games program.

Marco Arop (Silver, track and field, men’s 800 metres)

The Edmonton runner finished one one-hundredth of a second behind winner Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya. It was a reversal from the 2023 world championships when Arop beat out Wanyonyi for gold.

Katie Vincent (Gold, women’s canoe single 200 metres)

The Mississauga, Ont. native beat out Nevin Harrison of the United States in a photo finish to give Canada a record 25 medals in a non-boycotted Summer Olympics. It was the second medal in Paris and the third career Olympic medal for Vincent.

Day 14

Melissa Humana-Paredes, Brandie Wilkerson (Silver, women’s beach volleyball)

The Canadians’ string of four elimination wins in a row finally ended in the gold-medal match against world No. 1 Brazil. Still, it was the best-ever Olympic finish for a Canadian volleyball team.

Canadian men’s 4×100-m relay team (Gold, track and field)

Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, Brendon Rodney and anchor Andre De Grasse led Canada to a stunning gold in one of the marquee events of the Olympics. The Canadian sprinters had struggled in individual races.

Katie Vincent, Sloan MacKenzie (Bronze, canoe, women’s C-2 500-m)

The Canadians finished in the same spot where they did at the world championships last year. Canada was just .06 seconds behind Ukraine for the silver this time. It marks the second career Olympic bronze for Vincent in this event

Day 13

Skylar Park (Bronze, takewondo, women’s 57-kg)

The Winnipeg native took advantage of her second chance. Park took bronze after winning a couple of fights in the repechage rounds following a quarterfinal loss. It marked Canada’s first Olympic taekwondo medal since 2008.

Maude Charron (Silver, weightlifting, women’s 59-kg)

The Sainte-Luce, Que., native won another medal for Canada in Olympic weightlifting as she captured silver in the women’s 59-kg category. Charron won gold in Tokyo in the 64-kg category, but had to move down to 59 kg after her weight class was removed from the schedule in Paris.

Day 12

Alysha Newman (Bronze, track and field, women’s pole vault)

The 30-year-old London, Ont., native captured Canada’s first-ever Olympic medal in women’s pole vault when she set a personal best and national record with a vault of 4.85 metres to win bronze. 

Day 11

Camryn Rogers (Gold, track and field, women’s hammer throw)

The 25-year-old Richmond, B.C. native gave Canada a clean sweep in Olympic hammer throw. The reigning world champ delivered the winning heave on her fifth of six attempts.

Day 9

Ethan Katzberg (Gold, track and field, men’s hammer throw)

The 22-year-old Nanaimo, B.C. native became the youngest Olympic hammer throw champ in history. Katzberg nearly set the Olympic record on his first attempt, and that throw easily stood as the winner.

Wyatt Sanford (Bronze, boxing, men’s 63.5-kg division)

The Kennetcook, N.S., native lost a split decision to three-time world champion of Sofiane Oumiha of France in the semifinals. Both semifinal losers take bronze. Still, Sanford won Canada’s first Olympic medal in boxing since 1996.

Day 8

Summer McIntosh (Gold, swimming, women’s 200-m IM)

The Toronto teen captured a Canadian record third gold medal at a single Olympics with a dramatic rally on the last lap. It was her fourth medal overall in Paris.

Josh Liendo, Ilya Kharun (Silver and bronze, swimming, men’s 100-m butterfly)

The swimmers became the first Canadians to win two medals in a single Summer Olympics event since 1976. It was Kharun’s second medal of the Games.

Canadian women’s eight boat (Silver, rowing)

The Canadian boat could not defend its Olympic gold, but still had an impressive performance to return to the podium. Canada held off Great Britain in a tight race for silver, with Romania separating itself from the pack to take gold.

Day 7

Kylie Masse (Bronze, swimming, women’s 200-m backstroke)

The Canadian veteran rallied to win bronze and capture her fifth career Olympic medal. Masse won silver in this event in Tokyo three years ago. She became the first Canadian to win four individual medals in swimming.

Gabriela Dabrowski, Felix Auger-Aliassime (Bronze, mixed doubles tennis)

The Canadian duo beat Demi Schuurs and Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands 6-3, 7-6 (2) to earn their first-ever Olympic medal. It was Canada’s first tennis medal since 2000 and it came just hours after Auger-Aliassime lost a men’s singles semifinal against Carlos Alcaraz.

Sophiane Methot (Bronze, trampoline gymnastics)

After earning the last spot in the eight-woman trampoline final, Canada’s Sophiane Methot bounced to a surprising bronze medal in her Olympic debut. Methot, 25, scored 55.65 points. It is the sixth Olympic medal for Canada in women’s trampoline since the event debuted in 2000.

Day 6

Summer McIntosh (Gold, swimming, women’s 200-m butterfly)

The Canadian swimmer captured her second Paris 2024 title in a row when she won the women’s 200-metre butterfly on Thursday in an Olympic-record time of two minutes, 3.03 seconds.

Day 5

Ilya Kharun (Bronze, swimming, men’s 200-m butterfly)

Kharun has snapped an Olympic drought for Canadian male swimmers. Kharun became the first Canadian man to win an Olympic swimming medal since 2012 when he captured bronze in the 200-metre butterfly. Kharun set a Canadian record in third at 1:52.80.

Day 4

Women’s rugby sevens (Silver)

Upstart Canada gave defending champ New Zealand a serious scare, leading 12-7 at halftime before falling 19-12 in the final. Canada stunned France in the quarterfinals and Australia in the semis to secure the country’s best-ever finish in this event.

Day 3

Nathan Zsombor-Murray and Rylan Wiens (Bronze, diving, men’s 10-m synchronized platform)

The Canadians beat out Mexico in a tight battle for bronze. It was Canada’s first-ever medal in the event.

Christa Deguchi (Gold, judo, women’s 57 kg)

Deguchi captured Canada’s first-ever gold in judo. The top-ranked Deguchi beat Mimi Huh of South Korea in the final, reversing the result from the world championships earlier this year.

Summer McIntosh (Gold, swimming, women’s 400-m individual medley)

This was a dominant performance in McIntosh’s best event. The Canadian won by more than five seconds to earn her second medal of the Games.

Day 2

Eleanor Harvey (Bronze, fencing, women’s individual foil)

The Hamilton native earned Canada’s first-ever fencing medal. Ranked 12th in the field, Harvey beat reigning world champ Alice Volpi of Italy in the bronze-medal duel.

Day 1

Summer McIntosh (Silver, swimming, women’s 400-m freestyle)

After finishing fourth in this event at last year’s world championships, the Toronto teen moved up two spots on a bigger stage. Gold medallist Ariarne Titmus of Australia and McIntosh were well ahead of the field.

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