Canadian rhythmic gymnast Carmel Kallemaa wins 3 medals on Day 9 of Commonwealth Games
Canada received off to a powerful begin on Day 9 of the 2022 Commonwealth Video games on Saturday, successful medals in rhythmic gymnastics, diving, boxing and males’s hammer throw.
Kallemaa began the day without work by incomes 28.200 factors within the hoop, ending third behind Anna Sokolova of Cyprus (28.300) and Gemma Frizelle of Wales (28.700), who made historical past as the primary Welsh gymnast to win hoop gold on the Commonwealth Video games.
Fellow Canadian Tatiana Cocsanova completed fifth (27.100).
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The Toronto native scored 28.200 factors to position third within the hoop closing. Fellow Canadian Tatiana Cocsanova completed fifth with 27.100 factors.
Kallemaa went on to earn 29.100 factors in golf equipment whereas main all opponents with an 8.200 execution rating.
Australian Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva gained gold forward of Kallemaa with 29.400 factors for her third medal in Birmingham. Malaysia’s Izzah Amzan took bronze (28.600)
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Toronto’s Carmel Kallemaa completed with 29.100 factors to position 2nd within the rhythmic gymnastics golf equipment closing.
Kallemaa added her second bronze of the day with 27.500 factors in ribbon. Malaysia’s Ng Joe Ee gained gold (27.800), ending forward of Scotland’s Louise Christie (27.550).
Kallemaa additionally helped Canada win gold within the workforce closing on Thursday.
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The Toronto native gained her third medal of the day on the Video games, recording 27.500 factors to win the bronze within the rhythmic gymnastics ribbon closing.
Montreal’s Suzanna Shahbazian claimed silver within the ball occasion with 29.050 factors for her second medal of those Video games.
Joe Ee gained one other gold medal with 29.700, whereas Sokolova rounded out the rostrum with 28.800 factors.
Canada has gained 19 gold, 27 silver and 29 bronze for a complete of 75 medals by 9 days of competitors, which at the moment has them third within the standings.
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Montreal’s Suzanna Shahbazian scored 29.050 factors to complete 2nd within the rhythmic gymnastics ball closing.
Hammer thrower Katzberg wins silver
Ethan Katzberg gained Canada’s third silver medal of the day within the males’s hammer throw closing.
The 20-year-old from Nanaimo, B.C., set a brand new private greatest with a throw of 76.36 metres on his fifth of six makes an attempt.
England’s Nick Miller gained gold (76.43m) and Alexandro Poursanidis of Cyprus captured bronze with a season-best throw of 73.97m.
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The Nanaimo, B.C. native would go on to throw 76.36 metres to set a brand new private greatest, incomes himself a silver medal.
Vallée, Erlam dive to bronze
The Canadian diving duo of Mia Vallée and Margo Erlam added to the nation’s spectacular medal complete within the pool with bronze within the girls’s synchronized three-metre springboard closing.
The Canadians amassed 297.00 factors over 5 dives on the Sandwell Aquatics Centre in Birmingham.
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The Canadian duo completed with a closing rating of 297.00 to complete third within the girls’s synchronized three-metre springboard closing.
Australia’s Maddison Keeney and Anabelle Smith gained all 5 rounds whereas topping the rostrum with 316.53 factors.
Malaysia’s Ng Yan Yee and Nur Dhabitah bumped the Canadians out of silver place with a powerful closing dive — ahead 2½ somersaults 1 twist — that earned 67.50 factors for a complete of 299.85.
It is Vallée’s second medal of those Video games, having additionally gained gold within the girls’s one-metre springboard on Friday.
Dhillon, Sanford earn boxing bronze
Boxer Priyanka Dhillon took dwelling a bronze medal within the girls’s 48-kilogram division after making it to the semifinals.
The Winnipeg native began the competitors by successful 4-1 on factors towards Kenya’s Christine Ongare, who gained bronze on the 2018 Commonwealth Video games in Australia. However Dhillon went on to lose her semifinal match to India’s Nitu Ghanghas after the referee known as a cease to the competition within the third spherical.
Dhillon additionally captured bronze on the 2022 AMBC Continental Championships in March, the place she represented Canada for the primary time.
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The Winnipeg native fell to India’s Nitu Ghanghas after the referee stopped the competition within the third spherical.
Canadian Olympian Wyatt Sanford was additionally awarded a bronze medal within the males’s 63.5 kg division after shedding on factors to Scotland’s Reese Lynch within the semifinals.
The 23-year-old from Kennetcook, N.S., superior to the medal bout following three straight wins.
Sanford opened competitors with a stoppage victory over Niue’s De Niro Pao, and he adopted it up with factors selections over Lesotho’s Qhobosheane Mohlerepe within the spherical of 16 and Uganda’s Joshua Tukamuhebwa within the quarter-finals.
