Winnipeg swimmer captures fourth medal at Canada Games

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 Swimmer Chantal Vanlandeghem of Winnipeg collected her fourth medal of the Canada Games today.

Vanlandeghem won silver in the women’s 200-metre backstroke in P.E.I.

 In a reversal of results from her gold-medal swims on Tuesday and Wednesday, Vanlandeghem this time lost to Ontario’s Sinead Russell. Russell swam two minutes 8.30 seconds to win by .45 of a second.

 Manitoba scored two other medals on Thursday.

 One of them was a rare paddling medal when Dugald’s Andri Shchudlo captured silver in the Canoe-Kayak 2,000-metre C-1 final.

 Shchudlo finished in 11 minutes 28.82 seconds, eight seconds behind gold-medal winner Mark James of Nova Scotia.

 At the track, Melanie Gregoire won bronze by finishing third in the 2,000 metre steeplechase in a time of seven minutes 4.48 seconds. The 20-year-old from the Bison Track Club was 14 seconds off the gold-medal performance of Saskatchewan’s Jessica Furlan.

 That brings Manitoba’s total to 17 medals so far.

 Elsewhere, Manitoba moved up to a fourth-place finish in men’s golf, with the day’s second-best score of 146. That came from a pair of 73’s from Ryan Pitzel and Myles Sullivan. A three-day total of 448 (best two scores of the day) left Manitoba behind B.C., Quebec and Ontario.

The women’s team finished sixth. There is one more day to go in the golf competition as the individual tournament is four rounds.

Pitzel was the only Manitoba male to make the cut at 225, in 11th place. Lindsay Stewart of Selkirk was the only female to make the cut, at 244, after an 82. She’s in 14th.