GLASGOW – Canada continued collecting Commonwealth Games medals in combat sports Saturday led by Laurence Biron’s judo gold.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old from Varennes, Que., defeated Australia’s Saya Middleton in the women’s 63-kilogram championship bout at the SEC Centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Biron won by penalty as Middleton accumulated the maximum three penalties in a scoreless match.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Biron claimed Canada’s third judo gold after Friday victories by Evelyn Beaton of Lethbridge, Alta., and Julien Frascadore of Beauport, Que.<\/p>\n
Guillaume Gaulin of Val-d’Or, Que., took silver Saturday in men’s 90-kilogram final after a 1-0 loss to Remi Feuillet of Mauritius.<\/p>\n
In women’s boxing, Scarlett Delgado of Brampton, Ont., and Montreal’s Marie-Bathoul Al-Ahmadieh were silver medallists.<\/p>\n
Delgado dropped a 5-0 decision to Preeti Preeti of India in the 54-kg final. Al-Ahmadieh fell 6-1 to India’s Priya Priya in the last bout of the 60-kg class. Indian boxers featured in all seven finals Saturday.<\/p>\n
At the track, Canada’s men’s and women’s 4 x 100 relays qualified for the finals later Saturday. The women posted the second-fastest time in the heats behind Jamaica and the men ranked fourth.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLASGOW – Canada continued collecting Commonwealth Games medals in combat sports Saturday led by Laurence Biron’s judo gold.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[46150,49224,17,43703,49225,19016,19004,49220,40583,6318,49221,49226,49223,49222,49],"class_list":["post-152496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-boxing","tag-british-empire","tag-canada","tag-commonwealth-games","tag-commonwealth-sports-competitions","tag-gold-medal","tag-indoor-sports","tag-international-sports-competitions","tag-judo","tag-martial-arts","tag-multi-sport-events","tag-quadrennial-events","tag-quadrennial-sporting-events","tag-solo-activities","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}