{"id":206043,"date":"2025-10-11T21:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T21:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/206043\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T21:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T21:55:11","slug":"canada-strikes-gold-at-isu-short-track-opener-in-montreal-team-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/206043\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada strikes gold at ISU short track opener in Montreal – Team Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tAntoine Saito<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 11, 2025\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Sharing<\/p>\n

Canada kicked off the short track season in emphatic fashion, earning three medals on home ice at the ISU Short Track Speed Skating: World Tour in Montreal. William Dandjinou and Courtney Sarault<\/a> both captured gold, while Steven Dubois added a bronze in a thrilling start to the 2025\u201326 campaign.<\/p>\n

Dandjinou, 24, continued his remarkable rise with a wire-to-wire performance in the men\u2019s 500 m, clocking a winning time of 40.350 seconds. The Montreal native edged out Italy\u2019s Pietro Sighel (40.414) by a fraction of a second, while compatriot Steven Dubois<\/a> (40.480) secured bronze. Fellow Canadian Maxime Laoun<\/a> finished just off the podium in fourth at 40.557.<\/p>\n

Sarault, 25, followed with a composed victory in the women\u2019s 1000 m, posting a time of 1:28.185 to edge South Korea\u2019s Gilli Kim (1:28.250) and American Corinne Stoddard (1:28.279). The Moncton native controlled the pace through the final lap and surged ahead in the last straightaway to secure gold.<\/p>\n

Dubois, 28, capped a stellar day for the home team, returning to form after an injury-affected offseason. His explosive start and late-race control helped him hold off teammate Laoun to claim a well-earned bronze in the men\u2019s sprint final.<\/p>\n

The World Tour continues Sunday at Maurice Richard Arena in Montreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antoine Saito October 11, 2025 Canada kicked off the short track season in emphatic fashion, earning three medals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,100777,44,100778,100779,100780],"class_list":["post-206043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-courtney-sarault","tag-news","tag-speed-skating-short-track","tag-steven-dubois","tag-william-dandjinou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206043","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=206043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}