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Several Team Canada athletes are in action this weekend. The World Athletics World Championships begin on Saturday. The Canadian team, which won a total of four medals at worlds last year, is in a good position to improve on this record.
The women’s and men’s rugby teams have the opportunity to qualify for Paris 2024 during a tournament on Canadian soil in Langford. The Canadian women’s 3×3 basketball team, in action in Quebec City, is aiming to triumph in Canada for the second time this season in the FIBA Women’s 3×3 Series.
Having won a stage of the Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 circuit in front of their supporters in Montreal two three weeks ago, Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson are looking to repeat their performance at the stage in Hamburg this weekend. For their part, some Canadian archers have the opportunity to test the facilities that will be used for the Olympic archery competitions in Paris.
Here are the sports to watch this weekend so you don’t miss any of Team Canada’s performances.
Athletics
The World Athletics World Championships begin this weekend in Budapest, Hungary. Team Canada is represented by a strong team of 53 athletes, whose goal is to improve on last year’s medal record, which included gold in the men’s 4x100m relay, Pierce’s silver LePage in the decathlon, silver for Camryn Rogers in the women’s hammer throw, and bronze for Marco Arop in the men’s 800m.
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Evan Dunfee is the first Canadian in action. He took part in the first event of the competition, the 20 km walk. Dunfee is a Worlds bronze medalist and an Olympic bronze medalist in the 50km event. This is his first participation in the 20 km at the Worlds in seven years.
Also on Saturday, Ethan Katzberg will compete in the men’s hammer throw qualifier with the goal of advancing to the final on Sunday. At just 21, Katzberg comes to Budapest third in the world rankings after a year of impressive progress. On Sunday, Mohammed Ahmed will be at the start of the men’s 10,000m. Ahmed is also in contention in the 5,000m at these Worlds, an event in which he won the Olympic silver medal at Tokyo 2020.
Members of last year’s gold medal-winning relay team, Brendon Rodney and Jerome Blake will line up in the men’s 100m qualifier on Saturday. The semi-finals will take place on Sunday followed shortly after by the final.
You can follow the action via webcast on Radio-Canada Sports or CBC Sports.
Rugby
The Rugby Americas North 2023 Olympic Qualifying Tournament takes place in Langford, British Columbia on Saturday and Sunday. The best women’s team and the best men’s team at the end of the tournament will each obtain a place in the Paris 2024 Olympic tournament.
The women’s tournament, which begins on Saturday, opposes Canada, Mexico, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Saint Lucia. These five teams will take part in a round robin where the top two teams will face off in a game for the gold medal, and Olympic qualification, on Sunday at 8:32 p.m. ET.
Three players who were at Tokyo 2020 will don Team Canada uniforms this weekend: Olivia Apps, Breanne Nicholas and Julia Greenshields. The complete list of players who make up the Canadian women’s team is available here.
New Zealand, Australia, the United States and France have already secured their participation in the Paris 2024 Women’s Olympic Tournament, which will pit 12 teams against each other, finishing in the top four places of the final classification of the 2022-2023 season. World Rugby Sevens World Series. Canada finished ninth in this ranking this season.
The Canadian women’s team had qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic tournament as well as for that of Rio 2016 during the Olympic debut of rugby sevens. The Canadians then had their hands on the bronze medal.
The men’s tournament includes seven teams divided into two pools. In Pool B, Canada takes on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Jamaica and Barbados. Pool A opposes the United States, Mexico and Bermuda. The top two teams from each group will advance to the semi-finals on Sunday at 3:41 p.m. ET. The bronze medal final is at 6:37 p.m. ET. The gold medal final, and Olympic qualifier, is scheduled for 7:38 p.m. ET.
The Canadian men’s rugby sevens team qualified for Tokyo 2020 by winning the previous edition of the Rugby Americas North Olympic Qualifying Tournament which was held in the Cayman Islands in July 2019. Three players who will take part in the tournament this weekend were members of this team either Phil Berna, Cooper Coats and Josiah Morra. See the list of players making up the Canadian men’s team for this weekend’s tournament here.
New Zealand, Argentina, Fiji and France have already qualified for Paris 2024 by virtue of their ranking among the top four teams at the end of the World Rugby Sevens World Series final season.
As much for women as for men, the teams which will not be qualified at the end of the Olympic Qualification Tournaments of the regional associations will have a last chance to obtain their place in the Olympic tournament during the Final Olympic Repechage Tournament whose date and location are yet to be confirmed.
All games at Langford this weekend will be available to stream on CBC sports.
beach volleyball
A stop on the Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 circuit takes place in Hamburg, Germany this weekend. Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson feature in the main draw at this tournament on World Volleyball’s most prestigious 16-team beach volleyball circuit.
The Canadians, who have been playing together since the start of the season, signed their first victory on this circuit in front of noisy and numerous supporters during the stage presented in Montreal on July 30th. Previously, they had won bronze in Ostrava, Czechia, in early June, and reached the quarter-finals in Gstaad, Switzerland, on July 8.
Round robin play, in which teams are divided into four groups of four, begins Thursday and continues Friday. The best team in each group advances directly to the quarter-finals, while the teams finishing second and third in their group advance to the round of 12. These matches are scheduled for Saturday. On Sunday, the tournament will continue with the semi-finals. The final for the women’s tournament title is scheduled for Sunday at 12 a.m. ET and the final for third place at 9:30 a.m. ET.
Games are webcast on CBC Sports.
Basketball 3×3
The Canadian 3×3 basketball team plays at home as the FIBA Women’s 3×3 Series make a stop in Quebec.
The team usually made up of Katherine Plouffe, Michelle Plouffe, Paige Crozon and Kacie Bosch (who will be replaced by Jamie Scott for the Quebec leg) are on a roll, having won the title of their two most recent tournaments in Edmonton at the end of July and in Prague at the beginning of August. The team also won gold in Poitiers, France in June.
Round robin play is Friday. The teams that finish first in each of the two groups advance directly to the semi-finals on Saturday, while the second- and third-place teams will meet in the quarter-finals earlier. The final is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. ET on Saturday.
The tournament is webcast on CBC sports.
Archery
The fourth stage of the Archery World Cup takes place in Paris until August 20. The competition takes place on the site that will host the Paris 2024 archery events, the Esplanade des Invalides located opposite the historic Hôtel des Invalides, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. This World Cup organized by World Archery serves as a test event for the next Olympic Games.
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Silver medalist at the recent World Championships, Eric Peters is taking part in the men’s recurve bow tournament, as are Crispin Duenas and Devaang Gupta. The three join forces in the men’s team tournament. Kristine Esebua is the only Canadian participating in the women’s recurve tournament.
Qualifying took place on Tuesday and Wednesday. The playoffs continue until Friday. The finals are scheduled for Sunday.
2023-08-17 14:58:59
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