{"id":170009,"date":"2026-08-16T14:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/170009\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T14:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:07:19","slug":"canada-matches-best-ever-gold-medal-total-at-pan-pacific-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/170009\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada matches best-ever gold medal total at Pan Pacific Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSwimming Canada\/Michael Hall<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAugust 16, 2026\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"77\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786889239_396_Hayley-McGoldrick-e1688064513931.jpg\" class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/olympic.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/canadianolympiccommittee\/img\/team-canada-icons\/team-canada-profile-share-red.svg\" alt=\"Sharing icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alexanne Lepage\u2019s victory in the women\u2019s 200-metre breaststroke capped a solid weekend for Team Canada at the Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine, California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canada matched their best-ever gold medal haul at the championships, and brought home 13 medals total, their best performance since 1997.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Calgary\u2019s Lepage captured her first senior individual international medal, and her first international victory, with her time of 2:21:73.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summer McIntosh\u2019s Pan Pacific Championships concluded with a silver in the women\u2019s 200-metre individual medley with a time of 2:07.47.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier in the meet, McIntosh captured gold in the women\u2019s 400-metre individual medley, shattering the Pan Pacific Championships record. She also claimed silver in the 200-metre freestyle, and pushed Canada to a bronze medal in the women\u2019s 4\u00d7200-metre freestyle relay, bringing her medal total at the championships to four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taylor Ruck leaves the Pan Pacific Championships with five medals \u2013 three individual \u2013 with her final performance on Saturday setting her second Canadian record of the week in the women\u2019s 50-metre freestyle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruck also teamed up with Calgary\u2019s Ingrid Wilm, Lepage and McIntosh to finish fourth in the 4\u00d7100 medley relay with a time of 3:56.84.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reina Liu, Sophie Angus, Leilani Fack and Leah Tigert were seventh with a time of 4:01.71.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blake Tierney earned silver in the men\u2019s 200m backstroke on Friday night with a time of 1:56.29. His teammate, Ethan Ekk, also made it onto the podium, finishing third in 1:56.85.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Canadian men\u2019s 4x100m medley squad of Tierney, Oliver Dawson, Finlay Knox, and Ruslan Gaziev finished fourth, posting a combined time of 3:34.08.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier in the meet Dawson broke a record of his own, shaving his 50m breaststroke time by one hundredth of a second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canada\u2019s final medal of Friday evening came from the women\u2019s 4x100m freestyle relay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The quartet of Ruck,\u00a0Mary-Sophie Harvey, Leah Tigert and Leilani Fack earned a bronze medal after completing the event in a time of 3:36:44.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swimming Canada\/Michael Hall August 16, 2026 Alexanne Lepage\u2019s victory in the women\u2019s 200-metre breaststroke capped a solid weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[39014,39018,17,39029,53596,39031,30911,39032],"class_list":["post-170009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-alexanne-lepage","tag-blake-tierney","tag-canada","tag-oliver-dawson","tag-pan-pacific-championships","tag-summer-mcintosh","tag-swimming","tag-taylor-ruck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170009","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=170009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}