{"id":159637,"date":"2025-09-21T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159637\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T17:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:02:11","slug":"canadas-bennett-hunsicker-earn-bronze-at-world-para-swimming-championships-fraser-valley-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159637\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Bennett, Hunsicker earn bronze at world para swimming championships | Fraser Valley Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis kind of rivalry is something I look forward to every time I jump in the pool to train,\u201d Bennett added. \u201cIt\u2019s great to have guys like that who push me to try and get better every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758347900_436_indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bennett became only the second Canadian male para swimmer in history to reach the podium in the same event at three straight world championships. Benoit Huot made the podium in the 200 individual medley SM10 at five consecutive worlds from 2002 to 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Hunsicker, from Surrey, B.C., earned bronze in the last final of the day, the women\u2019s 50 free S10. She finished in 28.59 seconds, behind Defne Kurt of Turkey, who set a championships record of 27.21, and Italy\u2019s Alessia Scortechini (27.91).<\/p>\n<p>It was her first medal in third worlds appearances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so surreal,\u201d the 22-year-old said. \u201cEven though I knew there was maybe a shot at a medal, I saw the three on the board and I thought, \u2018That\u2019s not real. That can\u2019t be real.\u2019 It\u2019s really overwhelming. It might be the happiest I\u2019ve ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The world championships run until Sept. 27. <\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 21, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis kind of rivalry is something I look forward to every time I jump in the pool to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44937,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-159637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-chilliwack-news-fraser-valley-abbotsford-weather-traffic-lower-mainland-fvt","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}