The 2024 Summer Olympics are being held in Paris, France, and Team Canada is looking to dominate the podium.
The Games got underway Friday, July 26, with the Opening Ceremony along the city’s Seine River, and will continue through Aug. 11.
Canada has sent 142 repeat Olympians to France among it 337-athlete delegation, with Ontario fielding the most competitors (140) and Quebec sending the second-highest number of athletes (59).
This year’s Games mark a return to the Summer Olympics’ regular format. The last Summer Games, which were supposed to take place in Tokyo in 2020, were delayed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In Tokyo, Canadians took home 24 medals, putting them in 11th place out of all the competing countries.
All eyes will be on the pool this year, as Olympic vets Summer McIntosh and Penny Oleksiak look to clinch some swimming hardware for Team Canada. There will also be a big interest in track and field events, with Ethan Katzberg and Camryn Rogers, both from B.C., attempting to capture gold in the hammer throw, as well as Nova Scotia’s Sarah Mitton vying for a medal in the shot put.
Toronto sprinter Andre De Grasse will be back on the track, too, looking to add to his six-Olympic medal collection in the 100 metres, 200 metres and four-man relay.
There’s also likely to be a lot of interest in this year’s debut sport of breakdancing, as Toronto’s Philip Kim, considered one of the world’s best breakdancers, competes for a spot on the podium.
And, of course, Canada’s women’s soccer team will undoubtedly face strong competition from other countries as they try to defend their gold-medal performance at the last Olympic Games.
Check out Team Canada’s medal count below, as well as how they’re faring against other countries, in our running tally.
Podium:
Canada’s Christa Deguchi claimed the country’s first gold on July 29 in her Olympic debut, winning the women’s under-57 kilogram judo event by defeating South Korea’s Huh Mimi.
Swimmer Summer McIntosh of Toronto blasted past her competitors in the women’s 400-metre individual medley, taking home the second gold medal of the games.
She’s the first Canadian woman to claim gold in the race which combines butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle in that order.
Then, two days later, McIntosh won big with a second gold medal in the women’s 200-metre butterfly and set an Olympic record with a time of 2:03.03.
With that win she became the first female Canadian swimmer and one of three swimmers from Canada overall to win double gold at an Olympics, joining George Hodgson in 1912 and Alex Baumann in 1984.
Canadian divers Nathan Zsombor-Murray and Rylan Wiens won the bronze medal in the men’s synchronized 10-metre platform. Zsombor-Murray, from Pointe-Claire, Que., and Regina’s Wiens finished third with a total of 422.13 points over six dives.
It’s Canada’s first-ever medal in the event and the first Canadian men’s diving medal since Alexandre Despatie’s silver medal in the 3m springboard event in Beijing 2008.
Eleanor Harvey made Canadian sport history, winning Olympic bronze in the women’s individual foil. It is Canada’s first-ever Olympic medal in the sport.
McIntosh, 17, won silver on Day 1 for Team Canada — her first-ever medal, and Canada’s first at the Paris 2024 games — in the women’s 400m freestyle. She beat American swimming legend Katie Ledecky, who took home bronze.
Team Canada clinched the silver medal in women’s rugby sevens competition, falling short in the final against defending champion New Zealand on July 30. This was Canada’s best Olympic performance at the event and the sixth overall podium finish in Paris.
Canada’s Sophiane Methot won the bronze medal in women’s trampoline gymnastics at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 2. The 26-year-old from Varennes, Que., earned a score of 55.650 in the single-exercise final on Friday, behind Britain’s Briony Page and the Belarusian gymnast Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya, who is competing as a neutral athlete.
Gabriela Dabrowski and Felix Auger-Aliassime claimed the bronze medal in mixed doubles tennis on Aug. 2.
Kylie Masse of Windsor, Ont. swam a time of 2:05.57 on Aug. 2 to bring home gold for Canada in the women’s 200m backstroke.
With Masse’s win, the 28-year-old is the first Canadian swimmer to win an Olympic medal in three consecutive Games.
The women’s eight rowing team won silver on Aug. 3 after coming in a tight battle with Great Britain for second with 500 metres to go, but in the end came out ahead with a time of 54.39 seconds.
Aug. 3 then saw Canada have two swimmers take up spots on the podium with Josh Liendo and Ilya Kharun claiming silver and bronze respectively in the men’s 100-metre butterfly, with Liendo clocking in at 49.99 and Kharun at 50.45.
Summer McIntosh then claimed her third gold of the Games with a first-place finish in the women’s 200-metre individual medley on day 8 with a time of 2:06.56.
It was another bronze for Team Canada on Day 12 of the Games, when Alysha Newman vaulted her way onto the podium in women’s pole vault, bringing the medal count to 19.
Maude Charron, one of Canada’s flag-bearers for the Paris 2024 opening ceremony, claimed Canada’s 20th medal on Day 13 with a silver in women’s 59-kilogram weightlifting.
It was a special moment for Skylar Park on Day 13 as well as she won bronze in women’s taekwondo, the country’s first time medalling in the sport since 2008.
Katie Vincent and Sloan MacKenzie won the bronze in the women’s doubles 500-metre canoe sprint on Aug. 9. They finished behind gold-medallist China and Ukraine, who took silver.
Andre De Grasse snatched his seventh overall Olympic medal as he joined Jerome Blake, Brendon Rodney and Aaron Brown to win gold in the 4×100-metre men’s relay, giving Canada its seventh golden medal of the Games.