Canada's Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard earned a silver medal in the world judo championship Sunday. The 28-year-old from Montreal, who was a bronze medallist at last summer's Olympic Games in Tokyo, lost to Japan's Megumi Horikawa in the women's 63-kilogram final in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The result had Beauchemin-Pinard contemplating the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. "When I won my bronze medal at the Olympics, I knew I wanted to keep competing for at least another year so that I could win the one medal I didn't have, a world championships medal," Beauchemin-Pinard said.
Beauchemin-Pinard won her first three bouts quickly Sunday in under 70 seconds in each with victories over Audrey Jeanette Etoua Biock of Cameroon, Iva Oberan of Croatia and Renata Zachova of the Czech Republic.
The Canadian, ranked third in the world by the International Judo Federation, needed just over two minutes to beat Manon Deketer of France in the semifinal before facing Horikawa.