Commonwealth Games: Canada wins rhythmic gymnastics gold
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom –
Canada opened rhythmic gymnastics competitors on the Commonwealth Video games on Thursday with a gold medal within the staff occasion.
Tatiana Cocsanova, Carmel Kallemaa and Suzanna Shahbazian mixed for a rating of 272.95 factors to complete forward of Australia (268.65) and England (267.05).
“The sensation I believe (shall be) arduous to explain for the subsequent few days till I get house and it truly kicks in that I am a Commonwealth champion,” Kallemaa stated. “So I believe the sensation goes to return a bit later. Proper now it is all simply so unbelievable.”
Canada remained third within the medal standings heading into the ultimate three days of competitors with 59 (17 gold, 20 silver, 22 bronze). Australia leads with 132 adopted by England with 118.
Caeli McKay received Canada’s different medal of the day when she captured bronze within the ladies’s 10-metre platform diving on the Commonwealth Video games on Thursday, salvaging a medal together with her favorite dive.
“I am very glad. It was undoubtedly a little bit of a shaky occasion, not the perfect one I’ve ever put down, however I am glad to return house with a medal,” she stated.
The 23-year-old from Calgary struggled on her second dive, however recovered together with her third — and inward 3 1/2 somersault within the tuck place.
“That is one which I can rely on once I’m underneath stress,” she stated. “I acquired slightly annoyed after my second dive and form of informed myself I wanted to get up and get into the sport. In order that’s often my comeback dive.”
McKay scored 317.50 whole factors for bronze.
England completed 1-2, with Andrea Spendolini Sirieix taking the gold with a rating of 357.50, and Lois Mae Toulson ending second (37.30).
McKay will compete within the synchronized platform with Celina Toth on Saturday.
It took only one toss for Camryn Rogers to offer the day’s spotlight at observe and discipline. The Richmond, B.C., native, who captured silver on the latest world championships, threw a Commonwealth Video games record-74.68 metres within the ladies’s hammer throw qualifying spherical together with her one and solely throw.
“That is at all times the purpose (in qualifying), one and executed,” Rogers stated.
Canada’s males’s and girls’s seaside volleyball groups went undefeated to high their teams.
Sam Schacter and Daniel Dearing, each from Toronto, capped the group stage with a 2-1 win over Gambia on Thursday.
Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes, the 2019 world champions, completed group play a day earlier with a 2-0 win over New Zealand.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Aug. 4, 2023.
