Team Canada has won its third medal of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. On Monday, Rylan Wiens of Calgary, Alberta and Nathan Zsombor-Murray of Montreal, Quebec won bronze in the men’s 10 metre synchronized platform diving.
Wiens and Zsombor-Murray posted a score of 422.13 points. Yang Hao and Lian Junjie of China won the gold medal with a score of 490.35 points, and Tom Daley and Noah Williams of Great Britain won the silver medal with a score of 463.44 points. Wiens and Zsombor-Murray reached the podium by 3.48 points over Randal Willars and Kevin Berlin of Mexico, who had 418.65 points.
This was the first time Canada won an Olympic medal in either of the men’s synchronized diving events. Six times Canada has won an Olympic medal in women’s synchronized diving events. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Emilie Heymans of Greenfield Park, Quebec and Anne Montminy of Montreal, Quebec won silver in the women’s 10 metre synchronized platform. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Blythe Hartley of Edmonton, Alberta and Heymans won bronze in the women’s 10 metre synchronized platform. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Jennifer Abel of Montreal and Heymans won bronze in the women’s three metre springboard synchronized diving, and Meaghan Benfeito of Montreal, and Roseline Filion of Laval, Quebec won bronze in the women’s 10 metre synchronized platform diving. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Benfeito and Filion won bronze again in the women’s 10 metre synchronized platform diving. At the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, Melissa Citrini-Beaulieu of Saint-Constant, Quebec and Abel won silver in the women’s three metre springboard synchronized diving. Canada now has one silver and two bronze medals at the 2024 Olympic Games.
