The Canadian Olympic team captured a historic 27 medals (nine gold, seven silver, 11 bronze) at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games, marking the most medals Canada has ever earned at a single non-boycotted Summer Games. With history in the making, here are the athletes who helped Canada achieve their historic medal count.
Alysha Newman (Bronze – Pole Vault)
Alysha Newman won her first Olympic medal, setting a new personal and Canadian record of 4.85 metres to win the bronze, her first medal at a major international competition since placing third at the 2019 Pan American Games.
Camryn Rogers (Gold – Hammer Throw)
Camryn Rodgers successfully defended her 2023 World Athletics Championships gold medal to remain as the world champion in women’s hammer throw. The Richmond, B.C.-native had a gold medal-winning throw of 76.97 metres to finish atop the podium.
Christa Deguchi (Gold – Judo 57 kg)
Christa Deguchi won the gold medal in the judo 57 kg weight class in her Olympic Games debut to add to her growing trophy case. The 28-year-old now has 10 medals in major international competitions, including three gold and a silver at the Pan American Championships, two golds, a silver and a bronze at the IJF World Championships, and a gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Eleanor Harvey (Bronze – Fencing Individual Foil)
Eleanor Harvey of Hamilton won Canada’s first-ever Olympic fencing medal, defeating Italy’s Alice Vopli 15-12 in the bronze medal bout.
Ethan Katzburg (Gold – Hammer Throw)
Ethan Katzburg won Canada’s first gold medal in the men’s Olympic hammer throw competition ever, becoming the youngest winner of the event and the only thrower in the field that surpassed the 80-metre mark.
The 22-year-old unleashed a throw of 84.12 metres on his first attempt — 4.15 metres ahead of second place, marking the largest win margin since the 1920 Olympics — as the 2023 World Athletics Championship gold medalist now owns the ninth-best throw in Olympic Games history.
Ilya Kharun (Bronze – 100m Fly, 200m Fly)
Ilya Kharun placed third in both the 100m and 200m butterfly in his inaugural Olympic Games. The 19-year-old finished the 100m race with a time of 50:45 and the 200m race in 1:52.80.
Josh Liendo (Silver – 100m Fly)
Josh Liendo beat fellow Canadian Kharun for the silver medal in the 100m butterfly event and was nine-tenths of a second away from the gold medalist, Kristóf Milák. Liendo, a native of Toronto, nearly doubled his medal tally, placing fourth in the 50m freestyle and a pair of fifth-place finishes in the men’s and mixed medley relays.
Katie Vincent (Gold – Canoe/Kayak Sprint C-1 200m, Bronze – C-2 500m)
Katie Vincent beat 2020 Olympic gold medalist Nevin Harrison to steal the C-1 200m Olympic crown and win her first career Olympic gold medal.
Kylie Masse (Bronze – 200m Backstroke)
Kylie Masse added another Olympic medal to her collection, finishing third in the 200m backstroke with a time of 2:05.57, just behind the gold medalist and new Olympic record-holder Kaylee McKeown at 2:03.73. The University of Toronto alum now has five Olympic medals after winning two silver and a bronze at Tokyo 2020 and a bronze at Rio 2016.
Marco Arop (Silver – 800m)
Marco Arop narrowly missed out on becoming an Olympic champion, finishing one-hundredth of a second behind the winner, Emmanuel Wanyonyi, of Kenya. Arop’s time of 1:41.20 set a new Canadian record and was the fourth-fastest time in the history of the Olympics — a massive improvement from his 14th-place finish in Tokyo.
Maude Charron (Silver – Weightlifting 59 kg)
Maude Charron, Canada’s opening ceremony flag bearer, captured her second consecutive Olympic medal, lifting 236 kg — 106 kg in the snatch and 130 kg in the clean and jerk — to win the silver.
Men’s 10m Synchro Diving (Bronze)
Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray won their first Olympic medals, finishing with a score of 422.13 to win the bronze. The pair have now won four medals together, including a silver at the 2023 Pan American Games and 2022 Commonwealth Games, and a bronze at the 2022 World Aquatics Championship.
Men’s 4 x 100 Metre Relay (Gold)
Andre De Grasse, Jerome Blake, Aaron Brown and Brendan Rodney captured their third consecutive Olympic relay medal — bronze at Rio 2016 and silver at Tokyo 2020 — winning Canada’s first gold in the men’s 4 x 100-metre relay since 1996. The gold medal performance marked De Grasse’s seventh Olympic medal, tying him with Penny Oleksiak for the most Olympic medals by a Canadian athlete.
Mixed Doubles Tennis (Bronze)
Feliz Auger-Aliassime and Gabriela Dabrowski defeated Dutch duo Wesley Koolhof and Demi Schuurs in straight sets, 6-3, 7-6 (2), to win Canada’s first Olympic tennis medal since 2000. Auger-Aliassime nearly added another medal to Canada’s historic count in the men’s singles competition, finishing fourth in the draw.
Phillip Kim (Gold – Breaking)
Phillip Kim, a.k.a. B-Boy Phil Wizard, won the first ever men’s breaking competition at the Olympic Games, defeating Frenchman Danis Civil 23-4 to win his fourth gold in a major competition.
Skylar Park (Bronze – Taekwondo 57kg)
Skylar Park, the three-time Pan American Championship gold medalist, defeated Lebanon’s Laetitia Aoun 2-0 in the bronze medal contest to place third, winning her first career Olympic medal.
Sophiane Methot (Bronze – Trampoline)
Sophiane Methot followed up her 2024 FIG World Cup bronze medal performance, placing third in her inaugural Olympic Games. The Longueuil, Q.C.-native scored 55.650 points, 0.14 points ahead of China’s Zhu Xueying, to finish on the podium.
Summer McIntosh (Gold – 400m IM, 200m Fly, 200m IM; Silver – 400m Freestyle)
Summer McIntosh had an incredible summer, becoming the first Canadian to win three gold medals at an Olympic Games and only the third Canadian swimmer to win two or more golds at an Olympics, joining George Hodgson (1912) and Alex Baumann (1984).
After winning a silver in the 400m freestyle, the then 17-year-old took the world by storm, setting a new Olympic record in the 400m individual medley (2:06.56) and 200m butterfly (2:03.03). The Toronto native also won the 200m individual medley event, joining Penny Oleksiak (2016) as the only Canadian Olympian to win four medals at a single Olympic Games.
Women’s Beach Volleyball (Silver)
Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson won Canada’s first-ever women’s beach volleyball medal, as the former York Lions’ volleyball stars finished second in the competition.
Women’s Canoe/Kayak Sprint C-2 500m (Bronze)
Katie Vincent doubled her medal haul in Paris, joining teammate Sloan MacKenzie to place third in the C-2 500m competition, six-tenths of a second behind the Ukrainian team to finish in the bronze medal position.
Women’s Eight Rowing (Silver)
Jessica Sevick, Caileigh Filmer, Maya Meschkuleit, Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski, Avalon Wasteneys, Sydney Payne, Kristina Walker, Abby Dent and coxswain Kristen Kit — who is from St. Catharines — captured the silver medal with a time of 5:58.84, finishing ahead of the British and behind the Romanians for second place.
Women’s Rugby Sevens (Silver)
Canada’s rugby sevens team captured Canada’s best ever result at the Olympic Games, winning a silver medal after a narrow 19-12 loss to the back-to-back Olympic champions, New Zealand.
Wyatt Sanford (Bronze – Boxing 63.5 kg)
Wyatt Sanford captured his fifth straight medal at a major competition. The 25-year-old followed up his gold medal- winning performance at the 2023 Pan American Games with a bronze, after defeating Uzbekistan’s Ruslan Abdullaev 4-1 to place on the podium.
Inked in the history books, the Canadian Olympic team will look to rewrite history once again when the 2028 Summer Olympic Games head to Los Angeles.
For a full list of results from Paris 2024, head to olympics.com.
