Canada’s domination on the waters of Lake Banook continued on Friday.
Canadian paddlers won 11 of the 16 races during the second day of competition at the 2018 Pan Am and Para Pan Am Canoe Sprint Championships in Dartmouth.
Twenty-four hours after reaching the podium in all 15 races — including nine gold — on Thursday, Canada collected 11 gold, a silver and a bronze on Friday.
Mark De Jonge, the 2012 Olympic bronze medallist in London, and partner Alex Scott narrowly captured the senior men’s K2 200-metre race. The duo out of Maskwa Canoe Club on Kearney Lake crossed the line in 34.262 seconds, 0.612 ahead of Argentina.
Another Maskwa paddler, Marlee MacIntosh won the first medal of the day.
MacIntosh — the Canadian team flag bearer — won gold in the junior women’s C1 1,000. Her time of four minutes 51.62 seconds outdistanced Andreea Ghizila of the U.S. by more than five seconds.
It’s the second impressive victory already this month for the 17-year-old. On Sept. 6, MacIntosh won a gold medal at the ICF canoe marathon world championships in Portugal.
Dartmouth’s Connor Fitzpatrick of Senobe and Roland Varga of Richmond Hill, Ont., were victorious in the men’s C2 200. The pair, bronze medallists in the 1,000 on Thursday, posted a time of 41.377 to finish 2.4 seconds ahead of Mexico.
A pair of junior paddlers who earned silver medals on Day 1 reached the top of the podium on Friday.
Alex Canning of Banook won gold in the junior men’s K2 1,000. He and partner Cameron Ledrew of Cheema finished in 3:34.166, just ahead of boats from Mexico and Chile. Canning was second in the K1 1,000 on Thursday.
Tyler Laidlaw of Sack-a-Wa, silver medallist in the junior men’s C1 500, captured the C1 200 in 46.428 seconds.
Senobe paddlers Lily Baert and Anna O’Brien won gold in the junior women’s K2 1,000, while Ava Carew, also of Senobe, and Jessica MacKay of Maskwa finished first in the junior women’s C2 200.
The other Canadian gold medallists were: Courtney Stott of Balmy Beach, Ont., and Lissa Bissonnette of Pointe-Claire, Que., (women’s K2 500); Alanna Bray-Lougheed of Burloak, Ont., and Andreanne Langlois of Trois-Rivieres, Que., (women’s K2 200); Alix Plomteux of Lac Beauport, Que., and Philipe Turcanu of Ottawa (junior men’s C2 1,000) and Vadim Covalciuc and Alexandre Martin of Lachine, Que. (junior men’s K2 200).
Rowan Hardy-Kavanagh of Rideau, Ont., and Anna Roy-Cyr of Lac Beauport earned silver in the women’s C2 1,000. Brooklyn Wodehouse of Balmy Beach grabbed bronze in the junior women’s K1 200.
Competition continues through Sunday.
