Canadian paddlers carried Friday's success into the penultimate day of competition at the Pan Am Games in Santiago, Chile, with canoeists Katie Vincent of Mississauga, Ont., and Sloan MacKenzie of Windsor Junction, N.S., grabbing the lone gold of four medal performances. Canadian paddlers carried Friday's success into the penultimate day of competition at the Pan Am Games in Santiago, Chile.
The Canadians had previously secured an Olympic spot for next summer in Paris with a bronze-medal performance in August in the C2 500 at the sprint canoe world championships in Duisburg, Germany. Earlier this year, Vincent was off the water for over four weeks after breaking two bones in her arm in a cycling accident a little more than three months from worlds.In Duisburg, she also successfully defended her world title in the mixed C2 500 race with Connor Fitzpatrick of Dartmouth, N.S., who began Saturday's medal haul in Chile posting a time of 3:55.13 for C1 1,000m bronze.
The K2 event features two paddlers seated in tandem using double-bladed paddles to perform cyclical repetitions of a forward stroke in phase.
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