PARIS 鈥� sa国际传媒 bumped its medal count to 13 along with a second gold medal on Day 6 of the Paralympic Games.
Victoria's Cody Fournie struck gold on the track to give sa国际传媒 its second consecutive day with a top spot on the podium. sa国际传媒 went the first four days in Paris without gold, earning four bronze then four silvers.
Katie Cosgriffe added a bronze in the pool later on Tuesday, sa国际传媒's sixth swimming medal.
Fournie won the men's T51 200-metre race for sa国际传媒's third athletics medal in his Paralympic debut.
鈥淚t鈥檚 not a bad start at all," the 35-year-old wheelchair racer said. "It鈥檚 been a lot of hard work. My coach and I have put in a lot of effort and time. The 200 has always been the most difficult for me so it鈥檚 something we鈥檝e worked on the hardest.
鈥淚 executed perfectly.鈥�
Cosgriffe is also a debutant at the Paralympic Games. The 18-year-old hailing from Burlington, Ont., obtained her international classification in April 2023 before competing at the para swimming world championships that year.
She finished with a time of one minute 7.22 seconds in the women's S10 100-metre butterfly event.
鈥淚鈥檝e had this in my mind for a while,鈥� Cosgriffe said. 鈥淚 knew this was always a possibility, but I didn鈥檛 see it actually happening. The fact now it鈥檚 real, I鈥檓 really happy how it went.
鈥淚鈥檓 not overly (happy) with my time but I can鈥檛 complain about that because I won a medal.鈥�
It was the sixth medal in the pool for sa国际传媒 in Paris, with Aurelie Rivard and Nicholas Bennett each having two. Cosgriffe and Tess Routliffe have one apiece.
sa国际传媒 picked up two wins in mixed pairs BC4 boccia preliminary round action. The Canadians defeated China 8-5 before topping Croatia 6-4.
sa国际传媒 will next play Ukraine in the quarterfinals on Wednesday.
In goalball, sa国际传媒 fell 5-1 to Israel in the women's quarterfinals. Amy Burk had sa国际传媒's lone point.
sa国际传媒's men's wheelchair basketball team, meanwhile, advanced to the semifinals with a 79-67 win over the Netherlands.
Patrick Anderson paced sa国际传媒 with 20 points, while Nikola Goncin and Tyler Miller added 16 and 10, respectively.
"I just went to talk to my family, and they're super excited. We're in a semi(final)," Anderson said. "I came back in 2017 (after a five-year break) just with the hope to make it to the medal rounds with this group, and it's taken us seven long years to get there.
"The core of this group has been around since 2017, so we've been through a lot of lows together. My early part of my career, we kind of hit the ground running and had a lot of success early. At least it felt that way to me as a young player. But this team really had to work for it and suffer some real setbacks along the way."
The semifinals are set to take place on Thursday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 3, 2024.
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