Olympics medal count: Here all the Canadian women who've won
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Olympic medal count
Catharine Pendrel
Sport: Mountain biking
Medal: Bronze in women's cross-country mountain bike race
Early in the race Pendrel was caught up in a crash that left her in 15th place. Then, her shifting stopped working. But the 35-year-old fought back and finished third, after a sprint to the finish line with fellow Canadian Emily Batty, who finished fourth. Pendrel told the CBC after the race: "I'm used to having bad starts, luckily, and I know I can work through a field. We had prepared for every scenario. I knew that I could close a gap and that's what I set about doing today."
Women's soccer team
Medal: Bronze
Seventeen-year-old Deanne Rose scored the critical first goal of the match, and later assisted the goal that captain Christine Sinclair made for a winning score of 2-1 against Brazil. The Canadian women's soccer team also won bronze in London four years ago.
Erica Wiebe
Sport: Wrestling
Medal: Gold in women's 75-kilogram freestyle
Last summer, Erica Wiebe didn't qualify for the Pan Am Games in Toronto; this year, she took home gold in Rio. "I love this sport and I never thought I'd be an Olympic champion, but today I had my best day," Wiebe told the CBC after her win. Fun fact: Weibe's gold makes four for Canada, the third taken home by a woman and the most we've had in a Summer Olympics since 1992 in Barcelona.
Meaghan Benfeito
Sport: Diving
Medal: Bronze in women's 10-metre platform diving
This is Meaghan Benfeito’s second bronze medal in Rio. She won bronze with Roseline Filion alongside her in the synchronized 10-metre dive last week. Both were seen hugging and cheering each other on at today’s individual event.
Kirsti Lay, Allison Beveridge, Georgia Simmerling and Jasmin Glaesser
Sport: Women's track cycling
Medal: Bronze
Simmerling is the first Canadian athlete to compete in three different sports at three separate Olympic Games: She did alpine skiing at the Vancouver Games, cross-country skiing in Sochi and switched to cycling before Rio. No big deal.
Brianne Theisen-Eaton
Sport: Women's heptathlon
Medal: Bronze
"Going into this I wouldn't have said, 'Yay, I won a bronze medal,'" Theisen-Eaton told the Canadian Press. "But I'm really, really happy with it. The Olympics is tough."
Hilary Caldwell
Sport: Swimming
Medal: Bronze in women's 200-metre backstroke
Caldwell reportedly touched the wall with her right arm, which is tattooed with the phrase "make it so" — a favourite saying of her late coach Randy Bennett, who died of cancer in 2015.
Rosie MacLennan
Sport: Women's trampoline
Medal: Gold
Fun fact: Flagbearer MacLennan was Canada's only gold medallist at the 2012 London Games. Now she's got two!
Lindsay Jennerich and Patricia Obee
Sport: Rowing
Medal: Silver in women’s lightweight double sculls
You can call it a comeback: Bouncing back from a devastating loss at the London Games four years ago, the Canadian duo sat in fifth place at the 1,000-metre mark, but powered up in the final stretch to clinch a second-place finish in Rio.
Penny Oleksiak
Sport: Swimming
Medal: Gold in women's 100-metre freestyle
The 16-year-old Torontonian pulled up from seventh place in the last half and tied for first place (while also breaking a new Olympic record) with United States' Simone Manuel to bring home Canada's first gold medal. She is the first Canadian to win four medals at a Summer Olympics.
Taylor Ruck, Brittany MacLean, Katerine Savard and Penny Oleksiak
Sport: Swimming
Medal: Bronze in women's 4 x 200-metre freestyle relay
The team was anchored by Oleksiak, making this the third medal for the 16-year-old at these Games (and the second for fellow 16-year-old teammate Ruck). It's also the first time a Canadian team has won a medal in this event.
Meaghan Benfeito and Roseline Filion
Sport: Diving
Medal: Bronze in women's 10-metre synchronized dive
Filion and Benfeito have been diving partners for 11 years, reportedly longer than any two Olympians in the world, according to the Globe & Mail.
Kylie Masse
Sport: Swimming
Medal: Bronze in women's 100-metre backstroke
Masse swam a record Canadian time, the exact same as China’s Yuanhui Fu, who also received a bronze medal.
Women's rugby sevens team
Medal: Bronze
"I feel like a superhero. I know 11 of my other teammates feel that way too," captain Jen Kish told the CBC after beating Great Britain at their own game for a spot on the podium.
Penny Oleksiak
Sport: Swimming
Medal: Silver in women's 100-metre butterfly
"Throughout the race I wasn't even thinking. I was just trying to keep my head down. The first few seconds after I touched the wall I was just trying to get my breath. I didn't even know I had won a medal until I looked up and saw all the Canadian flags being waved," Oleksiak told CBC less than 24 hours after she won a bronze with the relay team.
Chantal van Landeghem, Sandrine Mainville, Penny Oleksiak and Taylor Ruck
Sport: Swimming
Medal: Bronze in women's 4 x 100-metre freestyle relay
"We belong here and we belong on that podium. I'm just so excited right now, I'm so proud of these girls," van Landeghem told CBC.
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