Ontario wins 2022 Canada Summer Games medal count with 198 medals

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Team Ontario won the 2022 Canada Summer Games medal count on Sunday with 198 medals. They won 86 gold medals, 60 silver medals and 52 bronze medals. Ontario had 56 more medals than Quebec, which finished in second place with 142 medals.

The team events in Niagara Falls dominated the schedule on Sunday with the gold medal games played in volleyball, soccer and box lacrosse. In male volleyball, Saskatchewan beat Alberta 25-21, 25-17, 25-27, 25-22. In female volleyball (the last event on the Canada Games schedule), Manitoba beat Alberta 25-22, 17-25, 25-20, 25-10. In male box lacrosse, British Columbia beat Ontario 7-6 in the gold medal game. In female soccer, Ontario blanked Quebec 3-0 in the gold medal game.

Meanwhile, a notable performance from the Canada Summer Games came on Saturday, as Madison Lawrence of Winnipeg, Manitoba set the Canada Summer Games record in the female heptathlon with 5655 points. Stephanie Bond had the old Canada Summer Games record with 5433 points at the 1989 Canada Summer Games in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Lawrence had 977 points in the 100 metre hurdles, 928 points in the high jump, 600 points in the shot put, 934 points in the 200 metres, 912 points in the long jump, 440 points in the javelin, and 864 points in the 800 metres. She also won two other medals at the 2022 Canada Summer Games in Niagara Falls. Lawrence placed second in the female high jump behind gold medalist Madison Mayr of Calgary, Alberta, and second in the female long jump behind gold medalist Trinity Shadd-Ceres of Kitchener, Ontario.

 

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