What Canada did

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What Canada did

Sunday

ATHLETICS

Men’s marathon — Dylan Wykes of Kingston, Ont., completed the 42-kilometre circuit in two hours 15 minutes 26 seconds to place 20th; Eric Gillis, Antigonish, N.S., was 22nd (2:16:00); and Reid Coolsaet, Hamilton, 27th (2:16:29).

CYCLING (MOUNTAIN)

Men’s cross country — Geoff Kabush, Courteney, B.C., traversed the course in 1:30:43 to rank eighth — 71 seconds behind the bronze medallist; Max Plaxton, Victoria, did not finish.

MODERN PENTATHLON

Women — Melanie McCann of Mount Carmel, Ont., placed 11th overall in the event with 5,180 points; Donna Vakalis, Toronto, was 29th (4,828).

WRESTLING (FREESTYLE)

Men’s 66-kilogram class — Haislan Garcia, Coquitlam, B.C., won his round-of-16 bout by points over Zalimkhan Yusupov of Tajikistan (2-0, 0-2, 2-0); was defeated in the quarter-finals by Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu, Japan (0-1, 1-0, 5-0); then eliminated with a loss in the repechage to Livan Lopez Azcuy of Cuba (1-0, 0-1, 1-0).

Men’s 96-kilogram class — Khetag Pliev, Toronto, won his opening match over Javier Cortina Lacerra of Cuba (0-2, 2-2, 1-0); lost to Jacob Varner, U.S., in the quarter-finals (1-0, 1-0); and fell short in the repechage round to Kurban Kurbanov of Uzbekistan (1-0, 4-1).

CLOSING CEREMONIES

Christine Sinclair of Burnaby, B.C., who scored six goals — including all three in a 4-3 semifinal loss to the United States — in leading the women’s soccer team to a bronze medal was chosen to carry the Canadian flag.

OVERALL

The 2012 team finished with eighteen (one gold, five silver, 12 bronze) to match the third-most medals won by Canada in a summer games (Barcelona, 1992, and Beijing, 2008). Rosannagh MacLennan of King City, Ont., earned the gold medal in women’s trampoline.

Saturday

ATHLETICS

Men’s 4×100 relay — Canada (Gavin Smellie, Brampton, Ont.; Oluseyi Smith, Ottawa; Jared Connaughton, New Haven, P.E.I.; and Justyn Warner, Markham, Ont.) initially won the bronze medal in 38.07 seconds but was disqualified moments later when Connaughton was called for stepping on the lane marker.

Men’s 5,000 — Cameron Levins, Black Creek, B.C., finished in 14th place (13 minutes 51.87 seconds).

Women’s 20-kilometre race walk — Rachel Seaman, Peterborough, Ont., placed 52nd in the event (1:37:36).

CANOE/KAYAK

Kayak

Men’s singles 200 — Mark de Jonge of Dartmouth, N.S., won the bronze medal with a time of 36.657 in a race where the top six competitors finished within 0.584 seconds of each other.

Men’s doubles 200 — Ryan Cochrane, Windsor, N.S., and Emilie Fournel, Lachine, Que., were seventh in the final (35.396).

Canoe

Men’s singles 200 — Jason McCoombs of Dartmouth, N.S., placed fifth in the B-final (44.973; 13th overall).

CYCLING (MOUNTAIN BIKE)

Women’s cross country — Catharine Pendrel, Kamloops, B.C., was ninth in one hour 34 minutes 28 seconds; Emily Batty, Brooklin, Ont., was 24th (1:40:37).

DIVING

Men’s 10-metre platform — Riley McCormick, Victoria, finished 11th in the final with a score of 493.35 points.

TAEKWONDO

Men’s 80-plus kilograms — Francois Coulombe-Fortier, Quebec City, failed to advance following a 11-6 loss in the quarter-finals to Daba Modibo Keita of Mali.

WRESTLING (FREESTYLE)

Men’s 120-kilogram class — Arjan Bhullar, Richmond, B.C., was eliminated after losing his round-of-16 match to Komeil Ghasemi of Iran, by points (1-0, 1-0).