Canada is on pace for its best non-home Pan Am Games ever

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Canadian athletes keep piling up the medals at the Pan American Games in Chile. Yesterday's haul was 18, including eight gold, and today had already brought four more medals by our publish time — including a gold by shooter Tugrul Ozer in the men's 10m air pistol event.

That brought Canada's total for the Games to 80 medals — 29 gold, 24 silver and 27 bronze, good for second place in the standings behind the unreachable United States.

With 11 days of competition still left (counting today), Canada is on pace to break its record of 47 gold medals for a non-home Pan Am Games, set in 1995 in Argentina. The national record for any Pan Ams is 78 golds, set in 2015 in Toronto.

Yesterday marked the end of competition in swimming, diving, gymnastics and badminton, which all proved to be major sources of medals for Canada.

Swimming, as usual, was the focal point of the first few days of the Games. Maggie Mac Neil won her Canadian-record fifth gold of the meet yesterday as part of the women's 4x100m medley relay team. It was also Mac Neil's seventh medal of any kind at these Games — one short of the national record set by gymnast Willie Weiler in 1963.

Mac Neil, the reigning Olympic champion in the women's 100m butterfly, won gold in all three of her individual events and added two more gold, a silver and a bronze in relays. Also earning seven medals was Mary-Sophie Harvey, who collected three gold, two silver and two bronze to help Canada's swimmers finish with 25 medals, including 11 gold (second to the United States).

In diving, four-time world-championships medallist Pamela