Thibeault’s boxing title highlights Canada’s 4-gold medal day at Commonwealth Games
Canada’s Tammara Thibeault struck gold in girls’s middleweight boxing last on Sunday, highlighting the nation’s 4 gold medal day at the Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham, England.
Thibeault added to her current success, following a world championship gold medal on the 2022 IBA Ladies’s World Boxing Championships in Istanbul in Might.
“It is extra than simply the Commonwealth Video games, it has been a extremely lengthy and difficult 12 months, filled with nice moments … And I am simply so happy with not solely what I’ve completed, but in addition what my staff has completed,” Thibeault stated.
“We have been by way of some tough patches, and we simply preserve turning into an increasing number of resilient and we simply stroll out of those tournaments higher than we got here in.”
Regina’s Tammara Thibeault defeated Rady Gramane of Mozambique 5-0 within the last of the ladies’s 70-75-kilogram boxing competitors.
The Canadian, who was defeated in a quarter-final on the Tokyo Olympic Video games in 2021, improved from a received bronze medal in the identical occasion on the 2018 Commonwealth Video games.
“These are the massive moments. Individuals see these moments. They do not see the small moments within the health club, and that is what makes this occur.”
Canada has received 26 gold, 31 silver and 34 bronze for a complete of 91 medals on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games, which has them third within the standings.
The Video games conclude on Monday.
Canadian girls declare 4x400m relay gold
The Commonwealth Video games girls’s 4x400m relay last concerned a tremendous late push by a Canadian athlete, a photograph end, post-race drama and one other gold for Canada.
Natassha McDonald, Aiyanna Stiverne and Micha Powell took care of Canada’s first three stints, inserting the nation in third place behind England and Jamaica.
Kyra Constantine then placed on a powerful last push to put Canada effectively in entrance of the final Jamaican runner. The 24-year-old crossed the end line side-by-side with the English athlete in a photograph end.
Initially, the official outcomes had Canada’s time of three minutes 25.84 seconds as 0.01 seconds shy of the English athletes, who celebrated their gold medals on observe after the announcement.
Moments later, England was disqualified from the occasion attributable to a lane violation, which propelled Canada to the gold medal and Jamaica, who had a time of three:26.93, to silver.
The staff’s last time of three:25.84 initially had them settled in for silver behind England. The English had been later disqualified post-race attributable to a lane violation, transferring Canada up into the highest spot.
“All people did their half very well,” stated Constantine, a Toronto native. “I received the baton in a extremely good place and all that was left for me to do is to battle, I suppose. I am proud, I am completely happy.”
Scotland inherited bronze, coming 4.31 seconds behind the Canadians.
The English staff protested the choice to no avail.
Canadian seaside volleyball duos take gold, silver
Canadians Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes took down Australia in three units within the girls’s seaside volleyball last, grabbing Canada’s twenty sixth gold medal of the 2022 Commonwealth Video games.
The Canadian duo bounced again from a 24-22 defeat within the opening set, claiming 21-17 and 15-12 wins within the second and third to finish the comeback over Australians Mariafe Artacho del Photo voltaic and Taliqua Clancy and strike gold.
Pavan and Humana-Paredes, who additionally received the event in 2018, go away Birmingham undefeated with six wins. Miller Pata and Sherysyn Toko of Vanuatu earned bronze for the nation’s first medal of the Video games.
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Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes got here again from dropping the primary set to win the subsequent two and gold on the Commonwealth Video games.
“To win a second Commonwealth gold medal, it is an ideal feeling, and it was a significantly better efficiency on our facet than [Saturday’s semifinal],” stated Pavan, from Kitchener, Ont. “So, it is good to finish like this. It is good to stroll away with a gold medal for Canada and this has been simply an unbelievable expertise.”
“Oh my gosh, to have the ability to defend a title is among the most difficult issues to do,” added Toronto’s Humana-Paredes.
Within the males’s seaside volleyball gold-medal match, Canada’s Sam Schachter and Daniel Dearing completed with a silver medal after falling in three units (21-17, 17-21, 18-20) to Australia’s Chris McHugh and Paul Burnett.
The Canadian duo entered the gold-medal match undefeated after 5 straight wins.
They cruised to a straight-sets victory within the quarter-finals towards Cyprus’ Antonios Liotatis and Charalambos Zorbis on Friday, and so they booked their spot within the last with a 15-21, 21-13, 15-7 win over twins Javier and Joaquin Bello of England on Saturday.
Schacter additionally received silver on the 2018 Commonwealth Video games in Australia alongside Sam Pedlow.
Toronto’s Daniel Dearing and Richmond Hill, Ont.’s Sam Schachter fell to Australia’s Paul Burnett and Chris McHugh 2-1 within the finals of the boys’s seaside volleyball competitors.
Dunfee takes gold with record-setting efficiency
Canada’s Evan Dunfee received the boys’s 10-kilometre race stroll with a record-setting efficiency.
The 31-year-old from Richmond, B.C., completed the race in a Video games file time of 38 minutes 36.37 seconds whereas additionally breaking his personal Canadian file and setting a brand new private greatest.
It was 3.35 seconds sooner than his earlier nationwide file of 38:39.72 set in June 2021 on the Harry Jerome Monitor Basic.
Dunfee fell behind on the midway level, however he moved up from fifth place and took the lead within the closing levels. It is his first Commonwealth Video games medal in his third look.
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The Richmond, B.C. native’s time of 38:36.37 set a Video games file in addition to broke his personal Canadian file.
“To consider in myself right this moment as a lot as my family and friends again residence believed in me. That was the aim for right this moment, to only are available right here and have that very same perception as everybody else has in me, and again myself, and that is what I did and I am thrilled,” Dunfee stated.
Sunday’s race was an enormous change for Dunfee, as it was held on the observe in Alexander Stadium.
“That was wonderful, to come back out right here, be within the stadium, we have by no means skilled something like this as race walkers,” he stated.
Dunfee’s victory comes after a troublesome season that noticed him battle with a nagging hamstring harm and lack of motivation largely across the elimination of the 50km occasion, through which he received bronze at each final summer season’s Tokyo Olympics and the 2019 world championships.
Dunfee had lobbied fiercely to maintain the occasion, nevertheless it was ultimately scrapped from the world and Olympic packages.
Dunfee completed sixth within the 35km race on the World Athletics Championships final month in Eugene, Ore. He additionally holds the Canadian file within the 50km occasion.
Wiens dives to silver in 10m platform
Canadian diver Rylan Wiens received silver within the males’s 10-metre platform last in a while Sunday after being bumped out of first place on the ultimate dive of the occasion.
The 20-year-old from Saskatoon amassed 492.80 factors over six dives on the Sandwell Aquatics Centre in Birmingham. Wiens was in second place coming into the ultimate spherical, however he momentarily moved into high spot together with his greatest dive of the day — again 2 ½ somersaults 2 ½ twists within the pike place — to earn 97.20 factors.
The Saskatoon competitor completed with a collective rating of 492.80 factors after 6 dives, adequate for 2nd place.
Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau claimed gold with a spectacular last dive for the dramatic end.
He pulled off a ahead 4½ somersaults within the tuck place to earn 103.60 factors in entrance of the cheering crowd — together with an ideal 10 rating from one of many seven judges. Rousseau completed with 501.30 factors.
What a dive to win gold! <br><br>Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau scores 103.60 on the ultimate dive of the boys’s 10m platform last and reaches a complete rating of 501.30 to assert gold on the Commonwealth Video games <br><br>Canada’s Rylan Wiens secures silver with a complete rating of 492. 80 🇨🇦🥈 <a href=”https://t.co/p1yj3Pcigr”>pic.twitter.com/p1yj3Pcigr</a>
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England’s Matthew Lee (477.00) received the bronze medal together with his last dive, bumping Canada’s Nathan Zsombor-Murray all the way down to fourth place.
Zsombor-Murray racked up 447.85 factors. The 19-year-old from Pointe-Claire, Que., received silver alongside Wiens within the synchronized 10m platform last on Friday.
Fellow Canadian Benjamin Tessier additionally had a powerful efficiency on Sunday whereas ending fifth out of the 12 divers with 440.30 factors.
Vallée wins bronze in 3m springboard
Canada’s Mia Vallée received bronze within the girls’s three-metre springboard last with 329.25 factors over 5 dives — her third medal of those Video games.
The 21-year-old from Kirkland, Que., was in second place following her final and greatest dive of the day, incomes 72.00 factors. However Australia’s Maddison Keeney bumped Malaysia’s Nur Dhabitah Sabri out of high spot to assert gold on the ultimate dive of the occasion, leaving Vallée in third place.
Fellow Canadian Margo Erlam of Calgary completed fifth with 309.65 factors.
Vallée received gold within the girls’s one-metre springboard last on Friday, and bronze within the girls’s synchronized three-metre springboard last on Saturday alongside Erlam. Vallée additionally took silver within the three-metre springboard occasion on the world championships.
The Kirkland, Que. native completed with a collective rating of 329.25 factors for the medal. Fellow Canadian Margo Erlam positioned fifth.
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