Canada’s girls capped Olympic swimming with a bronze medal within the medley relay Sunday and produced a historic seventh profession medal for Penny Oleksiak.
Kyle Masse of LaSalle, Ont., Sydney Pickrem of Clearwater, Fla., Maggie Mac Neil of London, Ont. and Toronto’s Oleksiak touched in 3:52.60, a Canadian file.
Australia completed first with an Olympic-record 3:51.60 and the U.S. claimed silver.
Oleksiak swam the anchor freestyle leg into the historical past books as essentially the most embellished Olympian in Canadian historical past. The 21-year-old surpassed speedskater Cindy Klassen and speedskater-cyclist Clara Hughes at six medals apiece.
Masse led Canada off in backstroke adopted by Pickrem’s breaststroke leg and Mac Neil in butterfly.
Mac Neil, 21, additionally captured 100-metre butterfly gold. She and Oleksiak took silver within the 4 x 100 freestyle relay on the primary day of finals.
