Commonwealth Games: Cyclist Kelsey Mitchell wins 2nd silver
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom –
Kelsey Mitchell raced to silver within the ladies’s observe biking dash race on Saturday, her second medal of the Commonwealth Video games.
A day earlier, the Olympic champion raced to silver within the dash crew occasion with Sarah Orban and Lauriane Genest.
“Persistently silver,” Mitchell stated. “Each competitors’s robust, you go on the market and provides your finest. Coming right here in the present day, clearly you go in to attempt to win that gold and win each race that you simply do. Got here up a bit bit quick, however gave it my all. I am comfortable to stroll away with a silver.”
New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews gained the gold.
Mitchell, a 28-year-old from Sherwood Park, Alta., captured gold within the dash ultimately summer season’s Tokyo Olympics.
Hannah Kaminski of Calgary gained bronze within the ladies’s 49-kilogram weightlifting class.
Their medals Saturday boosted Canada’s whole to 6.
The Canadian crew gained 82 on the Video games 4 years in the past in Australia.
Wheelchair racer Josh Cassidy of Port Elgin, Ont., certainly one of Canada’s flag-bearers in Thursday’s opening ceremonies, was fourth within the marathon. He completed in a single hour 47 minutes 47 seconds.
“The course was robust, technical,” Cassidy stated. “I like the technical elements, however the hills and the elevation was a grind for positive.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed July 30, 2022.
