{"id":926958,"date":"2026-10-09T21:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926958\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T21:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:02:12","slug":"taylor-ruck-finlay-knox-earn-canada-swimming-medals-at-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926958\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Ruck, Finlay Knox earn Canada swimming medals at World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TASHKENT \u2014 Canadian swimmers Taylor Ruck and Finlay Knox added to their medal hauls Friday at the second stop of the three-meet World Aquatics Swimming World Cup series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ruck, a four-time Olympic medallist from Kelowna, B.C., captured silver in the women\u2019s 100-metre backstroke in 56.38 seconds, behind Dutch winner Marrit Steenbergen, who finished in 55.32.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ruck also had a runner-up finish Thursday in the 50 freestyle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/36TSATPV7W66NYJS5MJRLAQ4O4.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"563\"\/>Taylor Ruck reacts following the women&#8217;s 100m backstroke final at the Canadian Swimming Trials in Montreal, on Sunday, July 5, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Graham Hughes Taylor Ruck reacts following the women&#8217;s 100m backstroke final at the Canadian Swimming Trials in Montreal, on Sunday, July 5, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Graham Hughes <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Knox, of Okotoks, Alta., took bronze in the men\u2019s 200 individual medley in one minute 52.33 seconds, behind Americans Shaine Casas and Carson Foster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was Knox\u2019s third bronze medal after third-place finishes in the 100 butterfly and 100 individual medley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Competition in Tashkent wraps up Saturday, with the World Cup series concluding next week in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TASHKENT \u2014 Canadian swimmers Taylor Ruck and Finlay Knox added to their medal hauls Friday at the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,82],"class_list":["post-926958","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\/926958","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=926958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}