Canada adds gold and silver medals at short track world championships

Canadian speed skaters won gold in the men’s 5,000-metre relay and silver in the mixed 2,000 relay at the world short-track championships Sunday in Montreal.

The team finished the event with just three medals, seven fewer than last year and two fewer than at last month's Milano-Cortina Olympics.

The Canadian national anthem rang out at the end of the day after the men's relay quartet of Felix Roussel, Maxime Laoun, Steven Dubois and William Dandjinou won gold for a second consecutive year.

Laoun was unable to hold off South Korea's Lee Jeong-min during the final lap. He attempted to pass him in the final meters before the finish line, but both skaters fell, and Lee narrowly edged out Laoun. The South Korean team, however, was disqualified after the referees ruled Lee had illegally blocked Laoun.

Therefore, Roussel, Laoun, Dubois, Dandjinou and Jordan Pierre-Gilles, who competed in the semifinals Saturday, took the top spot on the podium. China won silver and Italy took bronze.

The gold-medal marked a reversal of fortune for Dandjinou, who was disqualified from the 1,000-metre final earlier Sunday for blocking South Korea's Rim Jong-un during his final sprint to the finish.

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Rim claimed gold, having also triumphed in the 1,500 on Saturday. Dutch skater Jens van 't Wout took silver and Britain's Niall Treacy won bronze.

Earlier in the day, Canada was also edged out by a rival during the final lap of the mixed relay final.

Florence Brunelle, Danae Blais, Dandjinou and Dubois spent most of the early part of the race in the lead before Italy moved ahead. Canada regained the advantage with two laps to go when Dandjinou handed off