{"id":796039,"date":"2026-07-12T00:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796039\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T00:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:24:22","slug":"canadas-hennessy-jensen-each-earn-silver-at-canoe-sprint-and-para-canoe-world-cup-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796039\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Hennessy, Jensen each earn silver at canoe sprint and Para canoe World Cup in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Brianna Hennessy and Sophia Jensen each paddled to silver on home waters Saturday at the canoe sprint and Para canoe World Cup in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Hennessy, a Para canoeist from Ottawa, finished second in the women&#8217;s KL1 200-metre kayak race with a time of one minute 00.37 seconds at the Olympic Basin in Parc Jean-Drapeau, 1.53 seconds behind reigning Paralympic and world champion Katherinne Wollermann of Chile.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil&#8217;s Adriana Azevedo finished third in the five-woman race.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the second World Cup medal of the season for the 41-year-old Hennessy, who took silver in the VL2 200m va&#8217;a canoe\u00a0event at the opening stop in Brandenburg, Germany on May 19. She earned Paralympic silver in the same event at Paris 2024.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH | Hennessy secures silver at Montreal World Cup:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783815860_607_default.jpg\"  alt=\"\" class=\"thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"video-item-title\">Canada&#8217;s Hennessy earns Paracanoe silver at World Cup in Montreal<\/p>\n<p>Brianna Hennessy of Ottawa crossed the line with a time of 1:00.37 to claim silver in the Paracanoe KL1 women&#8217;s 200-metre race at the World Cup in Montreal on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Jensen, from Chelsea, Que., raced to a second-place finish later Saturday in the women&#8217;s canoe single 500m event after clocking 2:11.98. China&#8217;s Sun Mengya (2:10.67) captured gold and Italy&#8217;s Olympia Della Diustina (2:13.76) took bronze.<\/p>\n<p>Jensen also won silver in the event at the opening canoe sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 9. <\/p>\n<p>Three-time Olympic medallist Katie Vincent of Mississauga, Ont., was last among the field of nine in 2:41.06.<\/p>\n<p>Competition at the Montreal World Cup continues Sunday at 9 a.m. ET, with live coverage available on CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem. The streaming schedule is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/streaming-schedule?sport=Para+Canoe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The canoe sprint and Para canoe world championships will be held from Aug. 26 to 30 in Poznan, Poland.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH | Jensen claims silver in C1 500m:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783815861_770_default.jpg\"  alt=\"\" class=\"thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"video-item-title\">Jensen captures silver for Canada at home World Cup<\/p>\n<p>Sophia Jensen paddled to a silver medal in the women&#8217;s C1 500-metre event at the World Cup in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Edouard Beaumier, Alix Plomteux, Eric Chouinard and Nikita Ciudin added bronze in the men&#8217;s C4 500m with a time of 1:36.58. Hungary won the gold medal ahead of Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH | Canada takes bronze in men&#8217;s C4 500m:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783815862_848_default.jpg\"  alt=\"\" class=\"thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"video-item-title\">Canada men&#8217;s C4 crew races to podium finish at World Cup<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian crew of Edouard Beaumier, Alix Plomteux, Eric Chouinard and Nikita Ciudin won bronze in the men&#8217;s C4 500-metre race at the World Cup in Montreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-796039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796039","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=796039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}