Ruck earns second bronze medal with Canada’s 4×200 freestyle relay team

Her time of 52.72 was just 1/100th of a second behind the first place qualifier and world-record-holder, Cate Campbell of Australia.

We almost had another medal in the pool. “All of us were obviously really on board about that”.

The United States won gold in 7:43.03, followed by Australia in 7:44.87.

Another medal for Canada as we’ve been collecting at least one a day in Rio. Day 4 of racing Tuesday was the country’s only day without a swim medal. The relay bronze is the third medal of the Games for Oleksiak, who won silver in the 100-metre butterfly Sunday, and kicked off the Games Saturday as part of the bronze-winning 4×100-metre freestyle relay team.

A Canadian athlete has never won four medals at a Summer Games.

Elaine Tanner is pumped for Penny Oleksiak. She was scheduled to anchor the Canadian 4×200-metre freestyle relay later Wednesday evening. “If I can recover properly and everything by tomorrow I think I’ll be good”. “I’ve trained so hard for this and I knew I was fit enough to stand on the blocks tonight”.

The sevens rugby squad gave Canada its second team sport medal in as many Games after the women’s soccer team captured the nation’s attention by winning bronze four years ago in London. MacLean held the Canadians in third during her share. The native of Weyburn, Sask., was given the lofty distinction at the tournament draw Monday because Toronto’s George Lyon won gold in St. Louis Games in 1904 the last time the sport was recognized as an Olympic event. She showed exactly why in the relay, holding off the Dutch team with an electrifying final 50 metres that kept them off the podium. You’re with three other girls.

“We were kind of the underdogs, and that’s the best place to be”.

Instead, Oleksiak and fellow Toronto resident and 22-year-old Olympic veteran Brittany MacLean who grew up in Etobicoke, were just brought in for the final race – MacLean swimming the third leg, and Oleksiak the anchor. Before the first relay victory, it had been 20 years since a Canadian woman had medaled at the Olympics.

Santo Condorelli narrowly missed another bronze in the men’s 100-metre freestyle earlier in the night when he was out-touched at the wall by.03 seconds after leading at the halfway mark.

“Went out pretty fast, died pretty hard”, Condorelli said. Her time of 1:54.94 was the fourth-best time of the night among 32 swimmers.

Kierra Smith of Kelowna, B.C., snared the final berth for Thursday’s 200-metre breaststroke with the eighth-fastest time in the semifinals.

“Even Missy Franklin said we’re doing great as a team this year”.