Canada's Katerine Savard strikes gold at Mare Nostrum Swim Tour

Katerine Savard swam to a gold medal in the women's 100-metre butterfly event at the Mare Nostrum Swim Tour, leading a four-medal haul for Canada on Saturday in Monaco.

The 29-year-old Olympic medallist from Pont-Rouge, Que., stopped the clock at 58.25 seconds to edge Sweden's Sara Junevik by 0.46 and top the podium.

Shortly before that, Mary-Sophie Harvey, of Trois-Rivières, Que., and Brooklyn Douthwright, of Riverview, N.B., earned a double podium in the women's 200m freestyle event.

Harvey secured the silver medal with a time of 1:57.75, while Douthwright finished just 0.83 behind her teammate to take bronze. Siobhan-Bernadette Haughey of Hong Kong took gold in 1:55.03.

Ruslan Gaziev kicked off Team Canada's medal haul with a silver in the men's 100-metre freestyle.

Katsuhiro Matsumoto stopped the clock at 48.61 seconds to win gold, edging the Toronto native by just 0.17.

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In other Canadian results, Sophie Angus was seventh in the women's 50m breaststroke event.