Canadian slalom canoeist Lois Betteridge repeats as Pan Am Games silver medallist

Slalom canoeist Lois Betteridge is a silver medallist at a second consecutive Pan Am Games.

The Ottawa native finished behind Ana Satila of Brazil in the women's C1 final on Sunday in Santiago, Chile, four years after capturing silver in Lima.

"I'm super stoked," Betteridge told CBC Sports. "Obviously, it would have been nice if I had finished in first, but coming second behind Ana, who's one of the best in the world, is pretty exciting."

It was Canada's 89th medal of these Games and 27th silver. Ana Paula Fernandes Castro of Paraguay earned bronze.

The C1 are single-person canoes in which athletes kneel in the boat and use a single-bladed paddled to navigate the course.

At 1:48 p.m. ET, Betteridge is scheduled to compete in the women's kayak cross K1 semifinal.

Single-person kayaks (K1) require paddlers to sit in the boat using a double-bladed paddle. The final is slated for 2:55 p.m.

The 25-year-old Betteridge, an alternate at the 2021 Tokyo Summer Games, hopes to early Olympic status in the coming months for Paris next year.

"I think it's awesome," she told OttawaSportsPages.ca recently about having kayak cross on the Paris Olympic canoe slalom calendar. "It's a great spectator event.

"We were kind of told four to five years ago that it would be in Paris. It was confirmed three to four years ago and has attracted way more competitors who are getting faster and better.

Similar to ski cross and snowboard cross, kayak cross features four athletes (canoeists) pushing off a start line and battling from start to finish in a span of one minute.

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Meanwhile, talk of another Canadian record or potential for Evan Dunfee to regain his Pan Am Games title had