Canada wins silver in 1st ever girls’s single canoe sprint at Tokyo Olympics

Canada’s Laurence Vincent-Lapointe received the silver medal in the principal ever Olympic girls’s 200-metre single canoe sprint match in Tokyo on Thursday.

Nevin Harrison of the United States took the gold while Liudmyla Luzan of Ukraine nabbed bronze in the historic final. Fellow Canadian Katie Vincent finished remaining in the bustle.

Vincent-Lapointe finished third in her semifinal spherical earlier Thursday and received her qualifying heat Wednesday, putting her in a sturdy status to originate a status on the medal podium.

The Tokyo Video games are the principal to include girls in the canoe sprint events. Ladies had been relegated to the kayak races in outdated Summer Video games.

Vincent-Lapointe came into these Olympics with greater than a decade spent as one in every of the tip girls athletes in the field in canoe sprint.

The Trois-Rivieres, Que., native has claimed gold in the 200-metres at more than one world championships, World Cups and Pan American championships, but needed to wait till 2017 for the sport’s international federation and the International Olympic Committee to scheme room for women to bustle at the Olympics.

She’s predicament to join Vincent in the girls’s 500-metre double canoe sprint qualifiers on Friday.