2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
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Canada has been making history as a team at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Summer McIntosh won her 3rd gold medal tonight while Josh Liendo won silver and Ilya Kharun won bronze in the men’s 100 butterfly.
Summer McIntosh Becomes First Ever Canadian To Win 3 Golds In Same Olympics
McIntosh already became the first Canadian woman to win two gold medals in the same Olympic Games. Only two men have ever won two gold medals while no Canadian swimmer has ever won three in one meet, which McIntosh did today.
Canadian Individual Multi-Gold Medalists
| Swimmer | Olympic Games | # of golds |
| Summer McIntosh | 2024 Paris |
3 (Women’s 200 and 400 IM, 200 Fly)
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| Alex Baumann | 1984 LA |
2 (Men’s 200 and 400 IM)
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| George Hodgson | 1912 Stockholm |
2 (Men’s 400 and 1500 free)
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She added to her medal tally tonight, capturing gold in the women’s 200 IM. She now won gold in women’s 200 IM, 400 IM, and 200 fly as well as silver in the 400 freestyle.
With one day of competition left, McIntosh is the only woman in Paris to win three individual medals and one of only three swimmers to earn more than one individual gold this week.
Women’s Individual Multi-Gold Medalists- Paris 2024
| Swimmer | Country | Golds |
| Summer McIntosh | Canada |
200 IM, 400 IM, 200 fly
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| Kaylee McKeown | Australia |
100 back, 200 back
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| Katie Ledecky | USA |
800 free, 1500 free
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Canada’s 2nd Highest Medal Count Ever
With 3 gold medals and 8 total, Canada also has its 2nd highest medal tally ever in the pool. They have only won more medals in one Olympic Games as they had four golds and 10 total medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. The Olympics return to LA in four years, their momentum right now could bring them to even more success.
Canadian Swimming Medal Table
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | |
| 1984 Los Angeles | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| 2024 Paris | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 1912 Stockholm | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 Tokyo | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 1992 Barcelona | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1968 Mexico City | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 1976 Montreal | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 1972 Munich | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 1996 Atlanta | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1920 Antwerp | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1988 Seoul | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 London | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1928 Amsterdam | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 Sydney | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 Beijing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Kharun Is Now A US Citizen
Back in 2022, Kharun was originally announced to represent the US at the international level at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in August and the Open Water World Junior Championships in September. After citizenship confusion, he was taken off the US roster after, USA Swimming was “recently informed that Ilya is not an American citizen.”
Kharun then represented Canada at the 2022 Short Course World Championships before representing the country again at the 2023 World Championships. He gained US citizenship in April but still competes for Canada, notably winning the men their first Olympic medal since 2012 as he captured bronze in the 200 butterfly earlier this week.
Podium Double By Liendo And Kharun
Josh Liendo and Ilya Kharun also made history for Canada as this was the 2nd time in history that Canada has had two swimmers on the same podium. The only other time it happened was at the 1976 Games when Cheryl Gibson won silver and Becky Smith won bronze in the women’s 400 IM.
There is no new names coming up for Canada? Sorry but I dont see the optimism
At the risk of feeding a troll, there are lots of great young names coming up for Canada.
-Laon Kim
-The Ekk siblings
-Oliver Dawson
-Lorne Wigginton is still only 18
-Aidan Norman
-Alexanne LePage
-Sienna Angove
The AAA team looks a little thin in women’s sprints, but all-in-all, there’s some talent that will chase Ilya and Summer up the rankings.
All Canadian medals won by athletes that train outside of Canada. HPC strategy/failure will have to be re evaluated- Coaching ,Management, Swim Canada executives etc.A lot of tax payers money spent for average results.
Doesn’t Ilya train out of HPC Vancouver?
No
Saw a comment that Summer was the only one to win 3 individual medals. I think you’ll find with the Alex Walsh DQ that Kaylee McKeown also won 3 individual medals, not all gold mind you.
I’m over the moon on today’s results. Josh breaking the 50 second barrier is a long time coming. Summer has lived up to the hype and shown how tough a competitor she really is – none tougher despite her nascent years. Last but not least. Ilya – two bronze medals in fly! More important life-time bests – a couple seconds in both events. You cannot ask more from these three. All in all, the Canadian swim team has acquitted themselves well while we’re… Read more »
Summer was the only female swimmer to win 3 individual gold medals. Others including Kaylee have won 2 individual golds.
It’s an error in this story. Summer has won 4 individual medals (3 gold)
Summer’s the only one (female) to win 4 individual medals with 3 of them being gold.
Checked outside. Checked the calendar on the wall. Yeah, it’s summer time.
Silver in 400 not bronze