Winnipeg swimmer earns second bronze at world swimming championships
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Winnipeg swimmer Chantal Van Landeghem earned her second bronze medal of the FINA world swimming championships Saturday evening in Budapest.
The 23-year-old former Olympian teamed with Yuri Kisil, Javier Acevedo and Penny Oleksiak to give Canada a third-place finish in the mixed 4×100-metre freestyle relay, setting a new national record with a time of three minutes, 23.55 seconds.
The United States won with a time of 3:19.60, followed by the Netherlands (3:21.81).
It’s the second medal of the championships for all four Canadian swimmers, who combined for a bronze-medal-winning effort in the mixed 4×100-m medley relay Wednesday.
Markus Thormeyer and Sandrine Mainville, who swam alongside Kisil and Van Landeghem in the morning mixed freestyle heat to qualify for the final, will also receive medals.
Canada was seventh in the tight race after Acevedo’s leg but a remarkable push by Van Landeghem brought them back to fourth to set up Oleksiak as the anchor. Oleksiak, a quadruple Olympic medallist in Rio last year, passed Evelin Verraszto of the host Hungarians for bronze.
“I just went out there and tried to do the best I could to try to give Penny a chance to get us on the podium,” said Van Landeghem, who trains with Oleksiak at the High Performance Centre in Toronto. “It was a lot of fun to race with these guys tonight.”
Van Landeghem won a bronze medal in Rio in the women’s 4×100-m relay.
— Staff