Canada won two more gold medals in swimming on Saturday at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. Canadian Olympic gold medalist Maggie Mac Neil of London, Ontario won gold in the women’s 100 metre butterfly, and Nicolas-Guy Turbide of Quebec City, Quebec won gold in the men’s 50 metre freestyle for athletes with a visual impairment.
Mac Neil set a Commonwealth Games record with a time of 56.36 seconds. Emma McKeon of Australia won the silver medal with a time of 56.38 seconds and Brianna Throssell of Australia won the bronze medal with a time of 57.50 seconds. Mac Neil won the gold medal in the women’s 100 metre butterfly at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021.
Turbide had a time of 24.32 seconds. Stephen Clegg of Scotland won the silver medal with a time of 24.33 seconds. Jacob Templeton of Australia won the bronze medal with a time of 24.47 seconds.
Canada won five more medals on Saturday. Mac Neil teamed up with Summer McIntosh of Toronto, Ontario, Katerine Savard of Pont-Rouge, Quebec and Rebecca Smith of Red Deer, Alberta to win bronze in the women’s 4×100 metre relay. Canadian Olympic gold medalist Kelsey Mitchell of Brandon, Manitoba won silver in the women’s cycling track sprint. Hannah Kaminski of Calgary, Alberta won bronze in the women’s 49 kilogram weightlifting. In women’s team gymnastics, Canada won bronze. The four Canadians who contributed to the final result were Emma Spence of Cambridge, Ontario, Cassie Lee of Toronto, Ontario, Laurie Denommee of Saint-Eustache, Quebec, and Jenna Lalonde of Ottawa, Ontario. In the men’s 4×100 metre freestyle swimming relay. Canada won bronze. The Canadian team in the final composed of Joshua Liendo of Markham, Ontario, Ruslan Gaziev of Toronto, and Finlay Knox and Javier Acevedo of Scarborough, Ontario.
In the Commonwealth Games standings, Canada has 11 medals (three gold medals, three silver medals and five bronze medals), and are fifth in the overall medal standings. They are behind Australia (32 medals), England (21 medals), New Zealand (13 medals) and Scotland (12 medals).
