Canadian Medal News: Day 15

Marc de Jonge, the Bronze Kayak Kid

On the second last day at the London Olympics, Canadian Marc de Jonge took home the bronze medal in the K-1 200m race (Kayak). De Jonge won both his heat and semi final on Friday to advance to the medal race today. Ed McKeever of Great Britain won gold and Saul Craviotto Rivero took home silver for Spain. 

Canadian Medal News: Day 13

Bronze in Soccer and Silver in Wrestling

The Canadian women’s national team took home the bronze medal in soccer against France, after losing a heartbreaking semi-final against the States. Diana Matheson scored in injury time to seal the win for the Canadians with a score of 1-0. In other medal news Tonya Verbeek won her third career Olympic medal settling for silver after losing to Saori Yoshida of Japan.

3 More Canadian’s Medal in London

Day 12 Brings another 3 Medals

Adam Van Koeverden won silver in the men’s K-1000 today at the London Olympics; he had the lead for 750m of the race being beat by Norway’s Elrik Veras Larsen in the end. Carol Huynh and Mark Oldershaw both earned bronze in wrestling and men’s C-1 1000m, respectively. The three medals ups Canada’s total medal count to 14 overall through 12 days of competition.

Bronze in High Jump

Day 11 Brings Canada’s 7^th Bronze

Derek Drouin is one of three men taking home the bronze medal in high jump. Drouin tied with Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim and Great Britain’s Robert Grabarz. The three men made it to a height of 2.29m and failed all three of their attempts at 2.33m. Derek is the participating in his first ever Olympics for Canada and he earned Canada’s first medal in high jump since Greg Joy earned silver at Montreal 1976 

1 Bronze, 1 Silver, 1 Gold. Oh My

Day 8 Brings Canada’s First Gold

It took a week but that doesn’t make it any less sweet. Rosannagh Mclennan took first place and Canada’s first ever gold medal in the women’s trampoline. Also in Canadian medal news, Ryan Cochrane won the silver medal in the men’s 1500m freestyle swimming event, and the team of Gillian Carleton, Jasmin Glaesser, and Tara Whitten claimed a bronze in women’s team pursuit(cycling). Canada now has six bronze medals and ten medals overall putting us in 11^th in overall medal count.

Another Silver Medal for Canada

Women’s Eight Get Silver

The women’s eight in rowing won a silver medal finishing behind the USA. Although the medal wasn’t exactly what the women wanted they took joy in knowing that one of their own, Lesley Thompson-Willie, became the first Canadian athlete to win a medal in five different Olympics. The 52 year old rower has been a part of the national rowing team in seven games winning medals of all different colors. After day six the rowers added the second silver for Canada of these games increasing the overall total to seven medals.

Canada’s got a Silver

Day 5 Brings 2 More Medals

Canada got the day started with the returning gold medal men’s eight rowing team landing team Canada their first silver medal of these games. They had to rally in the last stages to pass Great Britain and try and make a run at the eventual gold winning German team. The other medalist on day 5 was Brent Hayden, claiming his first career medal, earning bronze in the men’s 100m freestyle.

Three More Medals

Four More Canadians Medal 

Canadian's had a good day at the London Olympics today, netting three more bronze medals, and bringing Canada's total to four medals. Antoine Valois-Fortier (Judo), Christine Girard (Weightlifting), and the team of Roseline Fillion and Meahgan Benfeito (Synchronized Diving) all took home third place in the respective events. Christine Girard even became the first Canadian women to ever medal in weightlifting in any Olympics ever.

Canada's First Medalists

Heymans and Abel

It's only the second day of these XXX Olympic Games and Canada has it's first medalists. Emilie Heymans and Jennifer Abel took bronze medal in the Synchronized 3m springboard. The bronze not only secured Canada's first medal it also ensured that Heymans became the first diver to medal in four consecutive games.