Paris 2024: Team Canada brings home historic medal haul

317 athletes officially represented Canada on the field of play 

PARIS (August 11, 2024) – Team Canada won 27 medals at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games – 9 gold, 7 silver and 11 bronze. This is Canada’s second largest in both gold medal count and total medals at a single Olympic Summer Games.

Amongst those leaving Paris as Olympic champions are Summer McIntosh and Ethan Katzberg, who will lead Team Canada as its Paris 2024 Closing Ceremony Flag Bearers as announced earlier today. 

McIntosh won Canada’s first Olympic medal at these Games with a silver in the women’s 400m freestyle. She would go on to be crowned Olympic champion in the women’s 400m individual medley, 200m butterfly, and 200m individual medley.  In Paris, she also set an Olympic record in both the women’s 200m butterfly (2:03.03) and the women’s 200m individual medley (2:06.56).

Katzberg is Canada’s first Olympic gold medallist in any throwing event in 120 years (since St Louis 1904). The 22-year-old is the first Canadian in 112 years to win a medal in the hammer throw at an Olympic Games. He won by 4.15m – the largest margin of victory in men’s hammer throw since Antwerp 1920. 

Canada’s Paris 2024 Opening Flag Bearers Andre De Grasse and Maude Charron also had an impressive showing at these Games. 

De Grasse anchored Canada’s men’s 4×100 m relay team to a gold medal performance. The 29-year-old now has seven all time Olympic medals, tying him with Penny Oleksiak as Canada’s all-time most decorated Olympian. 

Charron won silver in the women’s 59kg event to become the second Canadian weightlifter to win two Olympic medals. She matched her Canadian record with a total of 236 kg lifted. Charron came to Paris as an Olympic gold medallist, having won the 64kg event at Tokyo 2020. The event was subsequently removed from the Olympic programme, compelling Charron to drop down a weight class.

Many of the medals won by Canadians at Paris 2024 held some sort of Olympic historical significance:

GOLD

• Camryn Rogers captured gold in women’s hammer throw for Canada’s first Olympic medal in any women’s throwing event. Her gold medal is Canada’s third ever Olympic gold in a women’s athletics event. It hasn’t happened since Amsterdam 1928 when Ethel Catherwood won the high jump and the women’s 4x100m relay won their event.
  
  
• The golds from both Rogers and Katzberg make it just the third time that one country has won both the men’s and women’s hammer throw at one Olympic Games. Poland did it at Tokyo 2020 and Sydney 2000.
  
  
• Philip (Phil Wizard) Kim is the first b-boy to become Olympic champion as breaking made its Olympic debut at Paris 2024.
  
  
• Christa Deguchi won Canada’s first gold medal at Paris 2024. She is the first Canadian judoka to be crowned Olympic champion.
  
  
• Katie Vincent was crowned Olympic champion after setting a world best time in the women’s C-1 200m. Vincent is Canada’s first ever Olympic gold medallist in any women’s canoe or kayak event. She also won bronze in the women’s C-2 500m alongside Sloan MacKenzie.
  

SILVER

• Marco Arop claimed silver in the men’s 800m for Canada’s first Olympic medal in the event in 60 years (since Tokyo 1964).
  
  
• Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson’s silver medal in women’s beach volleyball is Canada’s best Olympic result in the sport and the country’s first medal in the women’s event.
  
  
• Canada’s women’s rugby sevens team captured silver for Canada’s best-ever Olympic result in the sport.
  
  
• Team Canada claimed its first double podium at an Olympic Summer Games since Montreal 1976 as Josh Liendo and Ilya Kharun captured silver and bronze respectively in the 100m butterfly. The two are Canada’s first Olympic medallists in the men’s 100m butterfly in 52 years.
  

BRONZE

• Alysha Newman claimed bronze for Canada’s first Olympic medal in the women’s pole vault.
  
  
• Wyatt Sanford captured bronze in the men’s 63.5kg weight class. He is Canada’s first Olympic medallist in boxing since David Defiagbon at Atlanta 1996. 
  

• Nathan Zsombor-Murray and Rylan Wiens are Canada’s first Olympic medallists in men’s synchronized 10m platform. It is Canada’s first Olympic medal in any men’s diving event since Beijing 2008.
  
  
• Eleanor Harvey became Canada’s first ever Olympic medallist in fencing after capturing bronze in the women’s individual foil event.
  
  
• Skylar Park is Canada’s first Olympic medallist in the women’s 57kg taekwondo event.
  
  
• Félix Auger-Aliassime and Gabriela Dabrowski captured Canada’s first ever Olympic medal in mixed doubles and just the nation’s second tennis medal overall.
  

TEAM CANADA PERFORMANCE FACTS

• 317 athletes officially competed for Team Canada with 81 top-8 finishes (including medals).
  
  
• Canada’s 27 medals were won across 15 sports.
  
  
• 17 of Canada’s medals came from athletes competing in women’s events, 9 from athletes competing in men’s events, and one mixed gender event.
  
  
• 25 of the 27 medals (93%) were won by COPSIN affiliated athletes.
  
  
• Athletes who won Olympic medals represented eight provinces – Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Saskatchewan. 
  

CANADIANS WHO BROKE RECORDS AND WORLD BESTS: 

• Summer McIntosh – Olympic Record – Swimming – women’s 200m butterfly – 2:03.03
  
  
• Summer McIntosh- Olympic Record – Swimming – women’s 200m IM – 2:06.56
  
  
• Katie Vincent – World Best – Canoe-Kayak – Women’s C2 200m – 44.12s
  
  
• Marco Arop – Area Record – Athletics – Men’s 800m – 1:41.20
  
  
• Alysha Newman – Canadian Record – Athletics – Women’s Pole Vault – 4.85m
  
  
• Evan Dunfee and Olivia Lundman – Canadian Record – Athletics – marathon race walk mixed relay – 3:04:57
  
  
• Audrey Leduc – Canadian Record – Athletics – women’s 100m – 10.95s
  
  
• Canadian Record – Athletics – Women’s 4×100 Relay – 42.50s
  

RESOURCES:
TEAM CANADA PARIS 2024 RESULTS
TEAM CANADA FLASH QUOTES – For print use only
TEAM CANADA PARIS 2024 ATHLETE BIOS
TEAM CANADA PARIS 2024 DELEGATION LIST
PARIS 2024 TEAM CANADA MEDIA CONTACTS
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TEAM CANADA OLYMPIC GAMES STATISTICAL GUIDE

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