Canada swims to gold in women's 4x100m freestyle relay at Pan Am Games
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Canada's Mary-Sophie Harvey, Brooklyn Douthwright, Maggie Mac Neil and Katerine Savard captured Pan Am gold in the women's 4x100-metre freestyle relay on Saturday in Santiago, Chile.
Mac Neil moved Canada from third to first as the quartet clocked a time of three minutes 37.75 seconds to beat the United States by 0.67 seconds.
Brazil took bronze with a time of 3:39.94.
Canada won silver in the same event at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, with a different team that also featured Mac Neil.
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Canada's men's 4x100m freestyle team followed it up with bronze, with Javier Acevedo, Édouard Fullum-Huot, Stephen Calkins and Finlay Knox finishing in 3:15.83.
Brazil added to its medal haul with gold (3:13.51), while the U.S. picked up another silver with a time of 3:14.22.
Gunnar Holmgren of Orillia, Ont., has a Pan Am gold medal to add to his Canadian titles in mountain biking.
The 24-year-old earned Canada's first podium finish in Santiago, Chile, beating Chilean Martin Kossmann and Brazil's Jose Gabriel Marques De Almeida to the finish line in one hour 17 minutes 59 seconds in the men's cross-country event. Kossmann was 53 seconds behind.
A coffee enthusiast, Holmgren noted he might celebrate with an espresso martini.
"It is the off-season now," he said, smiling, "so I'm looking forward to that."
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Holmgren moved into the lead on the third of seven laps and held it on the course at the Catholic University Sports Club northeast of the city.
He is part of the first family of Canadian mountain biking: mother Lisa was an elite racer, father Rob is a coach, sister Isabella is 2023 XCO and XC junior world champion and her twin sister Ava is also a regular fixture on the medal podium.
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