IN PHOTOS: London Olympics Day 14
Posted August 10, 2012 6:55 am.
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Canada won another bronze medal on Friday with Richard Weinberger’s third place finish in the marathon 10-kilometre open water swimming marathon.
In other Canadian results:
- Matthew Gentry of Burnaby, B.C., lost 3-0 to Russia’s Denis Tsargush in a bronze medal match in the 74-kilogram men’s freestyle wrestling event.
- Canada’s men’s 4×100 relay team qualified third for Saturday’s final behind the United States and Jamaica. The team consists of Justyn Warner of Markham, Ont., Gavin Smellie of Brampton, Ont., Jared Connaughton of New Haven, P.E.I., and Ottawa’s Oluseyi Smith.
- Halifax kayaker Mark de Jonge won his heat and semifinal in the K-1 200 metres to advance to the final
- Hugues Fournel of Lachine, Que., and Ryan Cochrane of Windsor, N.S., finished fourth in the K-2 200 to earn the last berth in the final.
- Victoria’s Riley McCormick qualified for the semifinal of the men’s 10-metre platform diving event, finishing 11th in the preliminary round. Edmonton’s Eric Sehn was 29th and failed to move on.
- Canada just missed the podium in team synchronized swimming, finishing fourth.
- Emilie Fournel of Lachine, failed to advance to the women’s K-1 200 final.
- Jason McCoombs of Dartmouth, N.S., was fourth in his C-1 200 canoe semifinal and missed out on a spot in the final.
- Karine Sergerie of Sainte-Catherine, Que., lost her quarter-final match in the women’s taekwondo under-67 kilogram class.
- Sebastien Michaud of Quebec City lost his opening taekwondo match against Arman Yeremyan of Armenia in the men’s under-80 kilogram class.
- David Tremblay of Montreal fell to Turkey’s Ahmet Peker in the men’s 55-kilogram freestyle wrestling’s round of 16.
- Canada finished 11th in team rhythmic gymnastics qualifying and did not advance.
