Summary of Quebec performances at the Pan American Games
Golf
The first round of the golf tournament was interrupted at the Prince of Wales Country Club in Santiago due to downpours and strong winds. This situation did not prevent Quebecer Étienne Papineau from standing out, who currently leads the competition at -9 (63).
The member of the Pinegrove Golf Club started in the first group in the morning alongside Venezuelan Rocco Saraceni and Panamanian Jean Paul Ducruet. He currently holds a three-shot lead over Paraguayan Fabrizio Zanotti, Colombian Sebastian Munoz and American Dylan Menante.
The action will resume on Friday with the presentation of the second round of the tournament scheduled for four.
Bowling
Bowler François Lavoie and his teammate Michel Hupé won the silver medal during the men’s team competition presented Thursday.
The maple leaf duo finished the competition with a total of 3,435 points, behind Panamanians Donald Lee and William Duen (3,511). Costa Ricans Juan Rodriguez and Marco Moretti (3430) completed the podium.
This is Lavoie’s second medal at a Pan American Games after the gold won in Toronto in 2015, also in doubles.
He will be back in action on Friday for the individual event which continues until Sunday.
Triathlon
Emy Legault took sixth place in the women’s triathlon event in a time of 1 h 58 min and 53 s (+1 minute 46 seconds).
Fourth after the first transition, Legault lost a few ranks when switching to the bike to find himself 12th.e just before starting the running portion.
Legault wasted no time getting back on track, as she was able to run with her Ontario teammate Dominika Jamnicky during the first laps.
Jamnicky finally escaped on the final lap, finishing fifth. The Quebecer followed 20 seconds later.
The event was won by Mexican Lizeth Rueda Santos who left Colombian Maria Velasquez Soto unanswered on the final lap in the running race.
Water polo
The Canadian women’s water polo team convincingly secured its ticket to the semi-finals Thursday morning in Santiago. Canada won by a score of 33-2 against Chile.
The match started off quietly for coach David Paradelo’s squad as the score was 4-0 after the first quarter. However, the Canadians opened the game before the half to bring the score to 13-0.
Canada added 20 points in the second half of the game, conceding only two to its opponents.
Veronica Bakoc was the big offensive star for the Maple Leaf representatives with seven goals. Élyse Lemay-Lavoie followed not far behind, hitting the target six times.
“The whole team is satisfied! It’s still nice to play against Chile, in front of their fans. It allowed us to work on our technique, there are still things to improve, we need to limit turnovers for example. We pushed on the counter-attack to be ready for the matches to come,” commented Lemay-Lavoie after the victory.
Axelle Crevier and Emma Wright added four goals each while Floranne Carroll, Serena Browne, Hayley McKelvey and Blaire McDowell all scored three goals.
In front of the Canadian net, Ontarian Jessica Gaudreault and Quebecer Clara Vulpisi shared the task of blocking 9 of the 11 shots from the Chilean attackers.
The Canadians will face the Brazilians on Friday in the semi-final.
The scenario will be identical for their male compatriots who have also reached the final four, where they will face the polo players from Brazil.
The national team, which includes Jérémy Blanchard, Nicolas Constantin-Bicari, Jérémie Côté, Aleksa Gardijan, Leo Hachem, Jason O’Donnell and Milan Radenovic among its ranks, defeated Mexico 20-5 to qualify for the semi-finals .
Nicolas Constantin-Bicari was Canada’s top scorer during this match with five goals. Jérémie Côté (3), Aleksa Gardijan and Leo Hachem also found the back of the net during this meeting, as did Matthew Halajian (4), Bogdan Djerkovic (3), Gaelan Patterson (2) and Reuel D’Souza.
For his part, Milan Radenovic blocked 12 of the 17 shots aimed at him.
Remember that the two champion teams of the Pan American Games will obtain a ticket to the Paris Olympic Games.
Archery
Virginie Chénier won her two duels of the day in the individual recurve bow competition on Thursday. She started her day with a convincing victory in the round of 16, winning 7-1 against Cuban Yailin Paredes.
Chénier continued his momentum a few minutes later. She won in a hard-fought duel in the round of 16 by a score of 6-5 against the Chilean Javiera Andrades.
On Friday, she will meet the American Casey Kaufhold in the quarter-finals.
The round of 16 clashes in the mixed team tournament were scheduled to take place on Thursday, but were postponed until Friday. Chénier will team up with Ontarian Eric Peters for a duel pitting them against Puerto Ricans Nilka Cotto and Adrian Munoz.
Table tennis
Edward Ly, Eugene Wang and Siméon Martin continued their journey in the men’s team event with a close victory against the representatives of Puerto Rico.
The trio of Daniel Gonzalez Negron, Brian Afanador and Angel Naranjo Lopez took a 2-1 lead in this duel, but singles victories from Ly and Wang allowed Canada to come back and win 3 -2.
Edward Ly, who had previously lost 3-0 (11-7, 11-7 and 11-9) in doubles with Siméon Martin, bounced back well by winning 3-1 (8-11, 11-8, 11-4 and 11-9) against Gonzalez Negron.
The Canadians will face independent athletes Hector Gatica, Sergio Carrillo Turcios and Heber Moscoso Cruz on Friday morning, to conclude the preliminary phase.
Squash
David Baillargeon and teammate Graeme Schnell lost in two sets in the quarter-finals of the doubles tournament to independent athletes Josué and Alejandro Enriquez.
Baillargeon and Schnell pushed their opponents to the limit in the first set, ultimately dropping the flag 11-10. The Enriquez closed the books in the next round by winning by a score of 11-9.
Artistic swimming
After a day off, Audrey Lamothe was back at the pool with her partner Olena Verbinska, in a free duet.
The two Canadians, who have been swimming together for only a few weeks, received a score of 163 6458, the fourth of the day. A result which brought their total to 361,2458 and which took them to fifth place in the final ranking.
Mexicans Nuria Diosdado and Joana Jimenez won gold in pairs with a cumulative score of 486.0208. They also qualified for the Paris Olympic Games. Americans Megumi Field and Ruby Remati earned silver with 451.6758 points, followed by Brazilians Laura Miccuci and Gabriela Regly Silva (390.2437).
In the evening, the Canadian team gathered to present its free program. She received a score of 230.1042 good for third place in this event.
She now occupies third place in the provisional ranking and will take part in the acrobatic event on Friday, the last artistic swimming event in Santiago.
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Tatiana Cocsanova presented her qualifying routines on clubs and ribbon on Thursday.
On the first device, the Quebecer obtained a score of 27,000 and took 10e rank, while in the second, she ranked 13e due to his score of 24,250.
In both cases, a few errors cost Cocsanova dearly, who finished 9e in the individual eventing competition.
“I’m not very happy, if I’m honest. It’s another step and another learning experience. I will continue to work,” she stressed in the mixed zone.
“On Wednesday, before the hoop, the first routine, I was very nervous. I had expectations coming here, but with my mistake my perspective changed a little and today I was much calmer. »
Cocsanova will now prepare for the ball final which will take place on Friday.