Canada’s Skylar Park has won an Olympic bronze medal in taekwondo at the Olympic Games in Paris.
The 25-year-old from Winnipeg defeated Lebanon’s Laetitia Aoun 2-0 in the women’s 57-kilogram division.
Park credited her father, Jae, along with her brothers and sparring partners, Tae-Ku and Braven, for helping her reach the podium.
“They’ve been everything. I think from the time that we’ve started this journey, and especially qualifying for the Games, it was never that I qualified. It was that we qualified as a family. And so we’re still sticking to that,” she said. “And today, we won a bronze medal as a family, and I’m grateful for them.”
Park lost her quarterfinal to Kim Yujin of South Korea.
Kim reaching the final gave Park another chance at a medal via repechage.
The Canadian defeated Turkey’s Hatice Kubra Ilgan 2-0 in the repechage to advance.
Park beat Dominika Hronova of Czechia 2-0 in her opening match of the day at the Grand Palais.