TOKYO —
Kylie Masse has gained her second medal of the Tokyo Olympics with a silver medal within the girls’s 200-metre backstroke.
The 25-year-old from LaSalle, Ont., completed in two minutes 5.42 seconds on Saturday — behind Kaylee McKeown (2:04.68) and forward of Emily Seebohm (2:06.17), each of Australia.
The Canadian girls’s swim group has generated 5 medals in Tokyo, together with Masse’s different silver within the 100-metre backstroke on Tuesday.
“I do know I’ve excessive expectations of myself, however I am actually completely happy to have gotten on the rostrum a second time at an Olympic Video games,” Masse stated.
She has an opportunity at a 3rd medal as she’s anticipated to swim the backstroke leg of the ladies’s medley relay on Sunday.
Masse (pronounced Moss) led at 150 metres within the 200, however was caught on the wall by McKeown.
“I knew it was going to return right down to the final bit,” Masse stated. “I feel perhaps from how I felt, my stroke charge perhaps slowed down a bit on the finish.
“I am going to need to look again on the race and discuss to the coaches, however that was a greatest time for me, a Canadian report, so I’ve to be happy with that.”
Masse’s Canadian teammate Taylor Ruck of Kelowna, B.C., completed sixth with a time of two:08.24.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed July 30, 2021.
