THOROLD — Quebec sprinter Audrey Leduc claimed a third gold medal at the Canada Games with a victory in Saturday's 200 metres.
A day after breaking the Games record to win the women's 100-metres and helping Quebec take the 4x100 relay also in record time, Leduc won the 200 in a time of 23.70 seconds.
Leduc was the only woman to win three gold track medals at this year's Canada Games held across southern Ontario's Niagara region.
The 23-year-old from Gatineau, Que., edged 400-metre champion Grace Konrad of Alberta by .15 seconds Saturday. Leduc's Quebec teammate Audrey Jackson crossed the line in 23.94 for bronze.
Leduc also finished fifth in Saturday's women's long jump dominated by Ontario's Trinity Shadd-Ceres with a record-breaking leap of 6.40 metres.
Men's hurdles winner Craig Thorne of New Brunswick and runner-up David Adeleye of Ontario both went under the Games record of 14.09 seconds with Thorne setting a new mark of 13.83 seconds.
Manitoba's Madisson Lawrence beat a 33-year-old heptathlon points record en route to gold. Lawrence scored 5,655 points over seven events to better Stephanie Bond's previous mark by 222 points. Lawrence also won long-jump silver behind Shadd-Ceres.
Alberta middle-distance runner Eric Lutz collected his second gold medal of the Games in as many days. He closed the gap on competitors with less than a lap to go to take the men's 800 metres after winning Friday's 1,500.
Ontario thrower Trinity Tutti broke the Games discus record she set back in 2017 with a new mark of 54.26 metres en route to victory.
B.C. golfers completed a golden sweep Saturday. Cooper Humphreys took the men's individual title and Tina Jiang the women's.
They and teammates Lauren Kim and Ethan Posthumus combined for another victory in the mixed team event.
Ontario dominated rowing Saturday by winning all but one of the day's seven finals. The host province continued to top the medals table.
The 16-day, multi-sport event featuring teams from all provinces and territories concludes Sunday with more events before the evening's closing ceremonies.
PODIUM TRIPS: Heading into the final day of competition, Ontario leads the medal standings with 187, including a Games-high 80 golds. Quebec is next with 134 medals, followed by B.C. with 118 and Alberta with 106.
Nova Scotia has 51 medals, followed by Manitoba (35), Saskatchewan (28), New Brunswick (19), Newfoundland and Labrador (9), Prince Edward Island (2), Nunavut (1). The Yukon and Northwest Territories have not won a medal.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 20, 2022.
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