Blais wins 1,000m silver on final day of short track speed skating World Cup in Montreal

A day after securing her first individual short track World Cup medal, Canada's Danaé Blais added another by winning silver in the women's 1,000-metre event in Montreal on Sunday.

The Châteauguay, Que., native earned bronze in the 1,500m event on Saturday, following that performance up with a time of one minute and 31.471 seconds in the 1,000m to finish 0.183 seconds back of gold-medallist Seo Whimin of South Korea, who was able to fend off multiple passing attempts by the Canadian to close out the race.

Park Jiyun, also of South Korea, rounded out the podium with a time of 1:31.505.

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While the 24-year-old Blais has won 14 medals in relay events competing in the World Cup series since 2018, her best individual result entering the weekend was a fourth-place finish in the 500m event in Salt Lake City in November of 2022, with her best result in the 1,000m being a ninth-place finish in Dresden, Germany three months later.

"I fell like I'm in a dream," Blais said in a release. "The first weekend, my objective was to win a medal. While I came close, I was a bit disappointed. This weekend, I was a little tired and didn't feel super well. I had the impression it wouldn't happen this weekend either, but it turned out amazing!"

Along with a gold medal in the women's 3,000m relay last Sunday in the World Cup opener in Montreal, Blais is already halfway to the career-high six medals she won on the 2022/23 circuit with four events left to go this season.

Blais was unable to find that same success in the women's 3,000m relay later on in the day, teaming up with Courtney Sarault of Moncton, N.B., Rikki Doak of Fredericton, N.B., and Florence Brunelle of Trois-Rivières, Que., to finish fourth in