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A pair of world championships featuring major Olympic sports wrapped up over the long weekend. One of them, in Calgary, could hardly have gone better for Canada. The other, in Doha, produced mixed results. Here's a recap of both meets:
Speed skating: Canada broke its medals record
With Calgary hosting the World Speed Skating Single Distances Championships for the first time in more than a quarter century, Canadian long-trackers parlayed their home-ice advantage into 10 medals (2 gold, 6 silver, 2 bronze). That broke the national record of nine (achieved most recently in 2020) and put Canada just three medals behind the powerhouse Dutch team, which topped the total medal standings outright for the 11th consecutive time.
Both of Canada's gold medals came last Thursday in the men's and women's team sprint events. Each squad successfully defended its title from last year's worlds in the Netherlands, and the men broke the world record. Isabelle Weidemann added a silver in Thursday's individual women's 3,000 metres.
Canada continued its team-event success on Friday with a silver in the women's team pursuit and a bronze in the men's. The women's result was something of a disappointment as the trio of Weidemann, Ivanie Blondin and Valérie Maltais were the reigning world and Olympic champions. Laurent Dubreuil, who was part of the men's team sprint victory on Thursday, added an individual silver in the men's 500m.
Blondin went on to collect a solo silver of her own in Saturday's women's mass start. The 33-year-old's seventh career world-championships medal in this distance
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