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Sprint canoeist Katie Vincent and breaker Philip Kim won gold while track star Marco Arop took silver to give Canada nine gold and 27 overall medals after the final full day of competition in Paris. Both are national records for a non-boycotted Summer Olympics, surpassing the seven gold and 24 medals from three years ago in Tokyo. Canada also won seven gold in 1992.
Vincent, who captured her second consecutive Olympic doubles bronze on Friday, won her first singles title this morning in a photo finish to give Canada its medals records and set a world record for herself. The race was so close between Vincent and American Nevin Harrison that the judges needed several minutes to call it.
Later, Kim was crowned the first-ever Olympic men’s champion in breaking. The Canadian b-boy, known on the stage as Phil Wizard, won all three rounds of his final battle with France’s Dany Dann.
WATCH | Canada’s Phil Kim wins historic Olympic men’s breaking gold:
Canadian Phil Kim, aka ‘b-boy Phil Wizard’, takes home the gold in men’s breaking. The 27-year-old from Vancouver captured the first men’s Olympic gold in the sport.
In between, Arop came oh so close to making it 10 gold medals, which would have matched Canada’s total at the Eastern Bloc-boycotted 1984 Games in Los Angeles. The men’s 800m world champion crossed the line just one hundredth of a second behind Kenya’s Emmanuel Wanyonyi to take the silver as his rally from the back of the pack fell just short.
Elsewhere, Ana Godinez Gonzalez had a chance for Canada’s first wrestling medal of the Games, but she lost her bronze bout. Divers Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray finished off the podium in the men’s 10m platform final, where Cao Yuan gave China an unprecedented sweep of the eight diving gold medals. The Canadian women’s 4x400m relay team placed sixth in the final track race of the Games as the U.S. blew away the competition in near world-record time.
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