Canada earns third medal of swimming worlds with bronze in 4×100 freestyle relay
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BUDAPEST, Hungary — Canada earned its third medal at the swimming world championships on Saturday with a bronze in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay.
The Canadian team of Penny Oleksiak, Chantal van Landeghem, Javier Acevedo and Yuri Kisil set a Canadian record of three minutes 23.55 seconds to take third place. The United States won gold in a world record 3:19.60 while the Netherlands took silver.
“It’s the most exciting event in my eyes. You never know who’s going to win until they touch the wall, so it’s pretty cool,” said Kisil. “With guys and girls racing each other, there can be a huge lead and all of a sudden that lead can just drop,” said Kisil.
Canada was seventh after Acevedo’s leg, but van Landeghem brought them back to fourth to set up Oleksiak as the anchor. The 17-year-old from Toronto, who won four Olympic medals last summer in Rio, passed Hungary for bronze. The Canadians also took bronze in the 4×100 medley relay on Wednesday.
