(Paris) Canada added three medals in swimming at the Paris Olympics on Saturday, with Summer McIntosh leading the charge with victory and a new Olympic record in the 200-metre individual medley.
Josh Liendo and Ilya Kharun won silver and bronze medals respectively in the 100-meter butterfly event.
McIntosh finished the event in two minutes 06.56 seconds, setting a new Olympic record. She won her fourth medal and Canada’s eighth in swimming at the Games.
American Kate Douglass (2:06.92) and Australian Kaylee McKeown (2:08.08) completed the podium. American Alex Walsh had initially finished second after a close battle with McIntosh, but she was disqualified.
The other Canadian in the running, Sydney Pickrem, finished sixth in 2:09.74.
PHOTO JONATHAN NACKSTRAND, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Josh Liendo and Ilya Kharun won silver and bronze respectively in the men’s 100m butterfly.
In the men’s 100m butterfly, Liendo covered the distance in 49.99 seconds. This is a new Canadian record. He was beaten only by Hungary’s Kristof Milak, in 49.90.
Montreal-born Kharun stopped the clock in 50.45. It was his second medal after bronze in the 200m butterfly.
It was the first time that two men finished on the podium in the same individual Olympic swimming race.
Bruce Robertson was also the last Canadian to rank in the top 3 in the 100m butterfly. He won silver in Munich in 1972.
Later, the Canadian mixed relay took fifth place in the 4 x 100 m medley event, won by the Americans.
In the morning, the Canadian men’s and women’s 4 x 100 m medley relay teams qualified for the finals of this discipline.
Ingrid Wilm, Sophie Angus, Mary-Sophie Harvey and Penny Oleksiak posted the second fastest time in qualifying. The swims followed in this order: a backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle.
Blake Tierney, Finlay Knox, Ilya Kharun and Javier Acevedo together posted the seventh fastest time in qualifying, placing them among the eight countries through to the men’s final.
British Columbia’s Taylor Ruck reached the semifinals of the women’s 50-metre freestyle event, finishing in a tie for eighth place with one other swimmer.
Sunday’s medley relays will conclude nine days of Olympic swimming.