{"id":840992,"date":"2026-08-01T19:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T19:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840992\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T19:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T19:48:09","slug":"canadas-laurence-biron-claims-womens-judo-commonwealth-games-gold-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840992\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Laurence Biron claims women&#8217;s judo Commonwealth Games gold medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">GLASGOW \u2014 Canada continued collecting Commonwealth Games medals in combat sports Saturday led by Laurence Biron\u2019s judo gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 22-year-old from Varennes, Que., defeated Australia\u2019s Saya Middleton in the women\u2019s 63-kilogram championship bout at the SEC Centre. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Biron won by penalty as Middleton accumulated the maximum three penalties in a scoreless match. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Biron claimed Canada\u2019s third judo gold after Friday victories by Evelyn Beaton of Lethbridge, Alta., and Julien Frascadore of Beauport, Que.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Guillaume Gaulin of Val-d\u2019Or, Que., took silver Saturday in men\u2019s 90-kilogram final after a 1-0 loss to Remi Feuillet of Mauritius.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In women\u2019s boxing, Scarlett Delgado of Brampton, Ont., and Montreal\u2019s Marie-Bathoul Al-Ahmadieh were silver medallists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Delgado dropped a 5-0 decision to Preeti Preeti of India in the 54-kg final. Al-Ahmadieh fell 6-1 to India\u2019s Priya Priya in the last bout of the 60-kg class. Indian boxers featured in all seven finals Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At the track, Canada\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s 4 x 100 relays qualified for the finals later Saturday. The women posted the second-fastest time in the heats behind Jamaica and the men ranked fourth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLASGOW \u2014 Canada continued collecting Commonwealth Games medals in combat sports Saturday led by Laurence Biron\u2019s judo gold.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,82],"class_list":["post-840992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840992","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=840992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}