Canada has secured its first medals \u2014 including one gold \u2014 at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
The Canadian men\u2019s artistic gymnastics team placed first with 241.400 points Friday at Glasgow International Arena, finishing ahead of England (238.250) and Australia (235.650).<\/p>\n
Canada earned 41.950 on vault, 40.600 on rings, 40.350 on parallel bars, 39.650 on pommel horse, 39.550 on floor exercise and 39.300 on horizontal bar.<\/p>\n
Paris 2024 Olympian F\u00e9lix Dolci of Laval, Que., led the individual standings with 81.650 points. William \u00c9mard, Ethan Ikeda, Jordan Carroll and Ren\u00e9 Cournoyer rounded out the gold medal-winning team.<\/p>\n
Earlier Friday, Mary Jibb of Muskoka, Ont., finished third in the women’s 200-metre individual medley SM10 before Jack Gill of Brockville, Ont., added a second Para swimming bronze in the men’s 100-metre butterfly S10 final.<\/p>\n
\u201cI heard (that was the first medal) after I touched the wall so I can\u2019t put it into words how this feels. It\u2019s super amazing and I\u2019m proud to walk away with the bronze,\u201d said Jibb, who experienced a stroke as a child that resulted in a physical impairment.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the fastest I\u2019ve been since Singapore last year so I\u2019m super happy. It\u2019s special to be here at my first Commonwealth Games. I feel this is another step forward for the Paralympic movement to have (Para swimming) integrated into the Games.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old Gill, competing in his first Commonwealth Games, was thrilled to medal with his parents in the stands watching him.<\/p>\n
“Coming off trials, I was hoping to stay strong for this meet. I\u2019m pretty happy with how I performed,\u201d said Gill. \u201cThis is the first time I\u2019ve been around the Olympic side (of the Canadian program). It has been a great environment and is bringing our teamwork to another level.\u201d<\/p>\n
Canada’s 3×3 wheelchair basketball teams, meanwhile, opened the event with a pair of wins.<\/p>\n
\u00c9lodie Tessier scored 10 points and pulled down four rebounds as the women began their defence of their Commonwealth Games gold with a 19-3 win over South Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very proud of the team,” Tessier said. “I think we really kept focused the entire way, and it showed on the court today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reed Michael De’aeth had eight points and 11 rebounds to lead the men’s team past Kenya 16-3.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the nerves were a little shaky,\u201d said Garrett Ostepchuk. \u201cIt’s our first game in the tournament. We came in like maybe put a little too much pressure on ourselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just got to take a little breath, step into those shots that we take consistently.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was the first preliminary game for both the Canadian men and women.<\/p>\n
They’ll both return to the court on Sunday when both Canadian squads face their English counterparts. England’s men and women also won their opening games on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Commonwealth Games run through Aug. 2. This year’s competition, featuring 3,000 athletes from 74 countries and territories, was downsized after Glasgow rode to the rescue when the Australian state of Victoria pulled out in 2023 over ballooning hosting costs.<\/p>\n
The 2026 Commonwealth Games features 10 sports: athletics, swimming, boxing, judo, artistic gymnastics, track cycling, netball, weightlifting, bowls and three-on-three basketball.<\/p>\n
Six sports include their Para sport counterpart: athletics, swimming, bowls, basketball, track cycling and weightlifting.<\/p>\n
The Commonwealth Games include Para sport in a country’s medal tally, and Glasgow is hosting the largest Para sport program in the Games’ history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada has secured its first medals \u2014 including one gold \u2014 at the Commonwealth Games. The Canadian men\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-824202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824202","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=824202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}