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Canada earned its fourth medal of the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow Saturday with silver within the ladies’s workforce inventive gymnastics competitors on Day 2.
Led by four-time Olympian Ellie Black and rising star Lia-Monica Fontaine, Canada earned a complete rating 157.300 after inserting first within the steadiness beam and ground train, second within the vault and fourth within the uneven bars.
Canada’s workforce additionally consists of Gabrielle Black, Lia Grace Redick and Alyssa Guerrier-Calixte.
Australia captured gold with 158.400, whereas England (154.300) leapfrogged Wales for Bronze within the closing second.
Lia-Monica Fontaine gained the vault competitors, whereas ending second within the ground train competitors, and Ellie Black completed second within the uneven bars competitors, as Canada claimed silver within the ladies’s gymnastics workforce occasion on the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.
Ellie Black led the ladies’s particular person all-around qualifying with a complete rating of 53.400 and in addition certified for the uneven bars closing after incomes the second-best rating of the day (13.850). The Halifax native gained the Commonwealth all-around title and helped Canada’s workforce earn gold on the 2018 version in Gold Coast, Australia.
“I’m so excited to be back competing. This is my first all-around competition since returning, and I’ve only recently started training vault and floor again, so those events are still coming along,” Ellie Black stated.
“I’m really proud to be back competing all-around, to be with this amazing team, and to experience the Commonwealth Games again. I’m just having so much fun.”
Fontaine, a 16-year-old from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Que., topped the qualifying for the vault closing with a rating of 13.750. She gained silver within the occasion on the 2025 world championships in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Fontaine certified for the all-around closing in fifth place (52.050) and the ground train closing in second (13.200). Redick additionally booked a spot in ground train, rating fourth with 13.000.
Ellie Black and Fontaine will compete within the steadiness beam closing after qualifying fifth and sixth with scores of 12.900 and 12.850, respectively.
CBC Sports’ Marissa Papaconstantinou spoke with Canada’s ladies’s gymnastics workforce, after they gained a silver medal within the workforce occasion on the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.
Dawson swims to 4th place
Saturday’s swimming finals noticed 18-year-old Oliver Dawson of Grand Prairie, Alta., narrowly miss the rostrum with a fourth-place end within the 100-metre breaststroke.
Dawson clocked a time of 59.70, ending 0.05 seconds behind bronze medallist Adam Ramsay-Peaty of England on the Tollcross International Swimming Centre. Australia’s Sam Williamson took gold in 59.17, touching simply forward of Jersey’s Filip Nowacki (59.34).
Toronto’s Josh Liendo certified for a pair of Sunday finals after ending second in his 50m freestyle and 100m butterfly semifinals with instances of 21.61 and 50.67, respectively.
Five-time Olympic medallist Kylie Masse, of LaSalle, Ont., gained her semifinal within the ladies’s 100m backstroke with a time of 59.71. Teammate Madison Kryger of Niagara Falls, Ont., additionally certified for Sunday’s closing, ending third within the second semifinal in 1:00.51.
Fellow Canadian Sophie Angus was second in her ladies’s 100m breaststroke semifinal, qualifying with a time of 1:06.74.
Hamilton Para swimmer Emma Van Dyk completed seventh within the ladies’s 200m freestyle S14 closing.
Ella Jansen of Burlington, Ont., was eighth within the ladies’s 200m freestyle closing.
Nine-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist Alexandre Despatie explores what makes the occasion so particular.
Ofori advances to Round of 16
Canadian boxer Joshua Ofori obtained off to a lightning-fast begin on the Commonwealth Games.
Ofori made fast work of his opponent within the males’s 80 kg Round of 32, the place he confronted Sri Lanka’s Sithija Sudamma. He secured the victory simply 1:21 into the opening spherical when the referee stopped the competition.
With the win, Ofori advances to the Round of 16, the place he’s set to face Fiji’s Aminiasi Saratibau on Monday.
Canada’s Keoma Al-Ahmadieh confronted India’s Sachin Sachin in a males’s 60 kg spherical of 32 bout. Al-Ahmadieh was unable to advance, dropping a 4-1 determination on factors.
Boyd, McKerihen steal win towards New Zealand
The Canadian ladies’s bowls pair of Emma Boyd and Kelly McKerihen took on New Zealand of their third-round matchup. Canada edged the opening set 4-3 earlier than New Zealand rallied to win the second set 5-3, overcoming a late Canadian comeback from a 4-1 deficit to drive a tiebreak.
With the group chanting “CA-NA-DA,” the Canadians delivered within the decisive set, profitable it 2-0 to safe the match. The victory improves Canada’s document to 2-1, good for third place in Section C.
In different bowls motion, Canadian legend Ryan Bester misplaced 2-0 in his third-round males’s singles match towards Malta’s Shaun James Parnis, dropping him to a 1-2 document within the group stage and fourth place in Section D.
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