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Ontario's Verbeek wrestles way to silver

sa国际传媒 beat France 1-0 in the women's soccer bronze-medal game at the London Olympics on Thursday. The bronze, combined with a silver medal from veteran wrestler Tonya Verbeek, increased sa国际传媒's medal haul to 16.
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sa国际传媒's Tonya Verbeek gives the crowd a wave after receiving her silver medal in 55kg freestyle wrestling.

sa国际传媒 beat France 1-0 in the women's soccer bronze-medal game at the London Olympics on Thursday.

The bronze, combined with a silver medal from veteran wrestler Tonya Verbeek, increased sa国际传媒's medal haul to 16.

Verbeek won silver in the 55-kilogram category after losing to Japan's Saori Yoshida in the gold-medal bout.

"I promised going into the Olympics I would give everything and the result would take care of itself," Verbeek said. "Wrestling is an awesome sport, it's done wonderful things in my life and I have three Olympic medals.

"The Games is not just about being here in the stadium, it's about the qualification and the pushing through."

Verbeek, of Thorold, Ont., won bronze in Beijing four years ago and silver at the 2004 Games in Athens.

"I felt a lot of belief in myself and I felt good going into the finals. I said to myself, 'This is my time', but sometimes it doesn't work out that way," said Verbeek, who was competing at her last Olympics. "I feel really great, I have my family and friends here.

"I promised myself before this competition that I was going to enjoy myself and I feel I did that today."

sa国际传媒 has won five medals in the last two days as the country creeps closer to the 18 it won four years ago in Beijing. With one gold, five silver and 10 bronze, sa国际传媒 is tied for 11th with the Netherlands in the overall medal count.

In other Canadian results:

- Damian Warner of London, Ont., built on a strong first day in the decathlon to finish fifth overall.

- Roseline Filion of Laval, Que., finished 10th in the final of the women's 10-metre platform dive, while Montreal's Meaghan Benfeito was 11th.

- Calgary wrestler Leah Callahan lost her opening match in the 72-kilogram category to Burmaa Ochirbat of Mongolia and was later eliminated.

- Emilie Fournel of Lachine, Que., was sixth in the B final of the women's K-1 500 kayak race. The result placed Fournel 14th overall.

- Toronto's Zsofia Balazs finished 18th in the women's open-water swimming event at Hyde Park.

- sa国际传媒's women's synchronized swimming team are fourth after the technical routine ahead of Friday's final events. They scored 94.4 points, trailing first-place Russia (98.1 points).

- Tory Nyhaug of Coquitlam failed to advance to the semifinal of the men's BMX event.

- Jessica Smith of North Vancouver failed to move on to the final in the women's 800 metres.

- Vancouver's Elizabeth Gleadle finished 12th in the women's javelin.