Canadians Katie Vincent and Sloan MacKenzie claimed bronze in the women's C2 500-metre final on Saturday at the 2023 ICF Canoe-Kayak Sprint World Championships in Duisburg, Germany, clinching a quota spot for Canada in the event at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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Vincent, a 27-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., won bronze at the Tokyo Olympics in the same event alongside partner Laurence Vincent Lapointe,The pair finished painstakingly close to the podium in the C2 500m final at last year's worlds in Dartmouth, N.S., just 0.03 seconds back of third place, but have been ramping up this year with World Cup bronze in the event in Hungary back in May.
🚨 MEDAL ALERT 🚨 What a way to start the weekend!Jacy Grant captures🥈at the 2023 Sprint World Championships! pic.twitter.com/XHF7E4B0JXGrant trailed Li Li for the first three quarters of the race before overtaking the Chinese competitor to grab silver in the last 250m. Canada kicked off the world championships with a pair of gold medals on Thursday, topping the podium in both the men's and women's unified K2 200m events.
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