Canada’s Hannah Taylor falls short in Olympic wrestling bronze match

Canada’s Hannah Taylor fell just short of an improbable Olympic bronze medal.

The Summerside, P.E.I., wrestler lost to American Helen Maroulis 4-0 in a bronze-medal fight on Friday afternoon in the women’s 57-kilogram division.

Maroulis repeated as bronze medalist from three years ago in Tokyo after taking Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro at 53 kg in 2016.

Taylor lost to three-time reigning world champion Tsugumi Sakurai of Japan in the quarterfinals and earned a repechage spot when Sakurai advanced to the final. She beat Luisa Elizabeth Valverde Melendres of Ecuador 13-0 in a repechage to qualify for a bronze-medal bout.

The 26-year-old Taylor, who was making her Olympic debut, won silver at last year’s Pan American Games but never has reached the quarterfinals at a world championships.