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Canada wins 2 rowing golds at Pan Am Games

Canadians Liz Fenje, left, and Katherine Sauks celebrate after winning gold in the women's lightweight double sculls at the 2015 Pan Am Games at the Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Course in St. Catharines, Ont., on Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Peter Power/The Canadian Press

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – Liz Fenje and Katherine Sauks won Canada’s second rowing gold medal of the day on Tuesday, taking the women’s lightweight double sculls Pan American Games title.

Fenje, from Victoria and Sauks, from Owen Sound, Ont., won with a time of six minutes 57.23 seconds.

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Cuba took silver in 7:00.36 and the United States won bronze in 7:03.86.

Earlier, Carling Zeemanof Cambridge, Ont. won gold in the women’s single sculls at Royal Henley Island.

Zeeman was more than seven seconds ahead of the competition with a winning time of seven minutes 30.86 seconds.

Katherine McFetridge of the United States took silver in 7:38.21 and Soraya Jadue of Chile won bronze in 7:43.34.

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