Commonwealth Games: Canadian wrestlers capture gold

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom –

Justina Di Stasio and Nishan Randhawa each received gold medals to guide a Canadian wrestling medal haul Saturday on the Commonwealth Video games.

Canada additionally struck gold on the observe the place Camryn Rogers of Richmond, B.C., received girls’s hammer throw.

All six wrestlers competing Saturday in Birmingham’s Coventry Enviornment stepped onto the rostrum.

Di Stasio, a 29-year-old from Burnaby, B.C., beat Nigeria’s Hannah Amuchechi Rueben 4-2 within the last with a four-point takedown to win the ladies’s 76-kilogram division

“She was very sturdy, however after I pulled her down the primary two instances, I may really feel her pulling up,” Di Stasio defined. “She was sturdy sufficient to tug up, so I let her, so I may sneak in.

“However I needed to be affected person as a result of if I missed, I knew she’d realize it was coming.”

Di Stasio received a world title within the 72-kg division in 2018 in Budapest, Hungary, in addition to Pan American Video games silver in Toronto in 2015.

“We had a sport plan,” the Canadian stated Saturday. “Generally I abandon the sport plan however in that match, I heard my coach saying one thing and I listened to it and I used to be capable of do it, in order that was superb.”

Randhawa of Abbotsford, B.C., outscored South Africa’s Nicolaas de Lange 6-1 within the again half of their last match for a decisive 9-3 victory.

“Because the match went on, I believe I picked up the tempo somewhat bit,” stated the 24-year-old Randhawa. “Feels superb. It has been a protracted street and had a pair accidents alongside the way in which.

“We’re ending off sturdy. Hopefully we will maintain this momentum going into the senior world championship in Serbia.”

Madison Parks of Brantford, Ont., and Fredericton’s Samantha Stewart claimed silver within the girls’s 50- and 53-kg weight lessons respectively.

Darthe Capellan of Surrey, B.C., and Jasmit Phulka of Abbotsford, B.C., took bronze medals within the males’s 57- and 74-kg divisions.

Canada ranked third within the general medal depend Saturday with 84 medals, together with 22 gold, behind chief Australia with 154 medals and 54 gold, and host England with 146 and 50 respectively.

The 2002 Commonwealth Video games conclude Monday.

On the observe, Rogers was the one girl to throw over 70 metres with a successful toss of 74.08 within the third spherical. Canadian teammate Jillian Weir of Kingston, Ont., took bronze.

“To have the ability to come again and get it within the third spherical . . . we prepare for each doable final result,” Rogers stated. “The primary couple felt actually good. They had been just a bit off. To get it within the third spherical was nice.

“Now I am much more pumped as much as come again in 4 years.”

Ethan Katzberg of Nanaimo, B.C., posted a career-best 76.36 metres for a silver medal in males’s hammer throw.

The rhythmic gymnastics group wrapped their competitors with 4 medals Saturday. Carmel Kallemaa led the way in which with silver in golf equipment and bronze in each hoop and ribbon.

The 24-year-old from Thornhill, Ont., compiled 4 medals in Birmingham, together with gold within the group occasion.

“It was simply my dream to make it to this competitors,” Kallemaa stated.

“At first I did not even dream about finals. I used to be simply pondering I wished to make it there. I made it there and hoped to a minimum of make one last.

“To make three finals and one medal in every occasion, it is simply unbelievable. It is among the best days of my life up to now for positive.”

Her Montreal teammate Suzanna Shahbazian, additionally a group gold winner, collected a silver medal within the ball last.

A day after successful the ladies’s one-metre springboard, diver Mia Vallee of Kirkland, Que., added to her medal tally with bronze in synchronized springboard with Saskatoon’s Margo Erlam.

Vallee, a silver medallist in three-metre springboard on this yr’s world championship in Budapest, competes in that occasion Sunday.

Canada’s seaside volleyball duos of Sam Schachter and Daniel Dearing, and Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan, received their Saturday semifinals to advance to Sunday’s gold-medal matches.

Schachter and Dearing downed English brothers Javier and Joaquin Bello 2-1 to earn a last males’s matchup with Australia’s Chris McHugh and Paul Burnett.

Humana-Paredes and Pavan, the 2019 girls’s world champions, beat New Zealand’s Alice Ziemann and Shauna Polley 2-1.

The Canadians will face Australia’s Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Photo voltaic for the title.

This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Aug. 6, 2022.