Canadian shot putter Mitton, runner Philibert-Thiboutot capture Pan Am golds

Canada won its 36th and 37th gold medals of the 2023 Pan American Games in rapid succession on Thursday with a pair of track and field Olympians topping the podium in Santiago, Chile.

Philibert-Thiboutot won Canada's first track and field gold of these Games with his victory in the men's 1,500 metres, while Mitton followed it up minutes later with the women's shot put crown.

Philibert-Thiboutot's time was three minutes 39.74 just two hundredths of a second faster than Hamilton's Heppenstall. Casey Comber of the United States took bronze.

What a finish for a CANADA 1-2!