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This last weekend in July, Team Canada athletes will be ones to watch in many sports across the world and at home. There are a few days of competition left at the World Aquatics World Championships in Fukuoka, the world championships on which the curtain will fall on Sunday. By then, the Canadians could well add a few medals to their harvest. It is also this weekend that the Fencing World Championships in Milan come to an end as the team events are presented.
There’s also domestic action as the Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 beach volleyball makes a stop in Montreal, a stop of the FIBA Women’s 3×3 Series takes place in Edmonton and the Canadian Track & Field Championships begin in Langley, British Columbia.
Here are the sports to watch this weekend so you don’t miss any of Team Canada’s exploits.
Swimming
There are a few swimming sessions remaining at the World Aquatics World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, and several of the Canadian team’s headliners will be in action.
Summer McIntosh may have seen the world record she held in the 400m freestyle bettered by Australian Ariarne Titmus in the final of the event last Sunday, but almost a week later she will defend her world title in the 400m medley, an event in which she set the world record last March. Qualifying will take place Saturday night at Canada time, with the final taking place early Sunday morning. McIntosh has already won bronze in the 200 freestyle and gold in the 200 butterfly earlier at these championships.
Josh Liendo will take part in qualifying for the 100 butterfly and 50 freestyle on Thursday evening at Canada time. The semi-finals of these events will take place on Friday morning and the finals on Saturday morning. Ilya Kharun will also be in the 100m butterfly. The 18-year-old set a Canadian record in the 200m butterfly earlier at this meet. He swam the distance in 1:53.82 to finish tied for fourth in the final.
Backstroke specialists Kylie Masse and Ingrid Wilm will be in action in the 200m backstroke, qualifying for Thursday evening. The semi-finals will be swum on Friday morning and the Canadians will try to qualify for the final of the event on Saturday morning.
Maggie MacNeil will take part in the 50m butterfly, the qualifications for which will also take place on Thursday evening. Mac Neil won the first medal of the swimming meet for Team Canada when she captured silver in the 100 butterfly on Monday.
Team Canada is also in contention for a few stints over the weekend. Canadian swimmers will compete in the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay, the women’s and men’s 4x100m medley relays and the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay, an event not on the Olympic program.
Athletics
The Canadian Track and Field Championships take place July 27-30 in Langley, British Columbia. Canadian titles will be on the line as well as spots on the Canadian team for the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary at the end of August.
A special ceremony will take place during the competition. Members of the Canadian Tokyo 2020 Men’s 4x100m Relay Team will be honored at a medal reallocation ceremony. Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake and Brendon Rodney had originally received the bronze medal, but were officially promoted to silver in May 2022 when the British team (which had originally won silver) was disqualified for violating anti-doping rules.
In addition to taking part in the ceremony, all members of the relay team are entered in the 100m, a race that is sure to be exciting to watch.
READ: Team Canada officially trades bronze for silver in Tokyo 2020 men’s 4x100m relay
Marco Arop, bronze medalist in the 800m at the 2022 World Championships, is another athlete to watch this weekend. He has just won bronze in this event at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco and he remains among the best in the world rankings this season. At 1500 m, you have to watch Charles Philibert-Thiboutot. Earlier this season, he improved his personal best mark in the event for the first time in eight years. This performance allowed him to reach the qualifying time required for both the Worlds and the Olympic Games.
We will also have to pay attention to the throwing events this weekend. Sarah Mitton (shot put) and Camryn Rogers (hammer throw) are both Tokyo 2020 Olympians, Canadian record holders and 2022 Commonwealth Games champions. improve on their result from last year’s Worlds where Mitton was fourth and Rogers was second.
Fencing
The FIE World Fencing Championships, which have been taking place in Milan since July 22, end on Sunday. It is the team events that will be in the spotlight during the last days of competition.
In the fencing team events, the tournament is by direct elimination and the teams are placed in the draw according to their world ranking. Each team event takes place over two days. At the end of the first day only the eight undefeated teams continue their course on the second day at the end of which matches take place for the gold and bronze medals.
In the context of team tournaments, each match consists of nine matches of three minutes or until the team reaches the next multiple of five touches: five touches after the first match, ten touches after the second match, fifteen touches after the third duel, and so on. If the ninth duel is over before a team has scored 45 hits, the team with the most hits is declared the winner.
Here are the Canadian foursomes that are in action in the team events:
From Thursday:
Women’s epee event: Leonora Mackinnon, Alexanne Verret, Marie-Frédérique Millette and Ruien Xiao
Men’s saber event: Shaul Gordon, Fares Arfa, Olivier Desrosiers and François Cauchon
From Friday:
Women’s foil event: Yunjia Zhang, Sabrina Fang, Eleanor Harvey and Jessica Guo
Men’s epee event: Samuel Gallagher Pelletier, Dylan French, Nicholas Zhang and Fynn Fafard
From Saturday:
Men’s foil event: Bogdan Hamilton, Maximilien Van Haaster, Blake Broszus and Patrick Liu
Women’s saber event: Marissa Ponich, Tamar Gordon, Madison Thurgood and Pamela Brind’Amour
Team events for each of the weapons and genders are included in the Olympic program, but oppose teams of three athletes instead of four. The countries that will obtain the Olympic qualification quotas for Paris will be determined according to the official FIE senior team ranking, which will take into account the team results of the World Cup stages, the World Championships and the Continental Championships of the April 3, 2023 to April 1, 2024.
beach volleyball
Montreal is hosting a stop of the Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 this weekend, with the women’s and men’s tournaments taking place at Parc Jean-Drapeau through Sunday.
Fans can see the Canadian duos of Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson as well as Sarah Pavan and Molly McBain in action in the women’s tournament. Canadians Daniel Dearing and Samuel Schachter are in the men’s main draw.
Humana-Paredes and Wilkerson reached the quarter-finals in their most recent appearance on this circuit in Gstaad, Switzerland, on July 8. They had previously won bronze in Ostrava, Czechia, in early June.
Group stage matches take place on Thursday and Friday. The playoffs begin on Saturday with the round of 12 matches followed by the quarter-finals. The semi-finals and finals for the title and third place are scheduled for Sunday.
It is possible to watch the games via webcast on CBC sports.
Basketball 3×3
The Canadian Women’s 3×3 Basketball Team plays at home this weekend as the FIBA Women’s 3×3 Series comes to a stop in Edmonton. Team Canada is represented by Kacie Bosch, Paige Crozon, Katherine Plouffe and Michelle Plouffe. The Canadians will try to repeat their performance from last year when they won the tournament of the circuit presented in Edmonton.
It is possible to watch the matches on the FIBA 3×3 YouTube channel.
2023-07-28 00:38:03
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