Canadian athletes will be busy competing in several events at the Tokyo Olympics Saturday, including chances for more medals in track and field and the country’s first appearance in karate.
For Canadian fans, events will begin Friday evening and continue overnight into Saturday.
Here’s when you can see Canada compete in several sports (all times Eastern). Events with multiple showings for Canada are marked with starting times. Medal events are marked in bold.
Golf – 5:30 p.m. ET
Brooke Henderson and Alena Sharp take part in the fourth and final round of women’s individual play, which starts at 5:30 p.m. ET Friday. The combined scores after four rounds of play will determine the medal winners.
Henderson will tee off at 6:11 p.m. ET, followed by Sharpe at 6:23 p.m. ET.
Athletics – 6 p.m. ET
Malindi Elmore, Dayna Pidhoresky and Natasha Wodak will all race in the 42-kilometre women’s marathon at 6 p.m. ET Friday.
At 6:45 a.m. ET Saturday, Andrea Seccafien will run for gold in the women’s 10,000-kilometre final. Seccafien is coming off a 15th-place finish in the 5,000-metre race on Monday.
Then the team of Alicia Brown, Sage Watson, Madeline Price and Kyra Constantine will race the women’s 400-metre relay final at 8:30 a.m. ET Saturday, following a fifth-place finish in the qualifier.
Water Polo – 8:30 p.m. ET
Canada and China will duke it out for seventh and eighth place in the final rankings of women’s water polo at 8:30 p.m. ET Friday.
Canoe Sprint – 8:37 p.m. ET
Laurence Vincent-Lapointe will continue her quest for a second Olympic medal when she and Katie Vincent race in the women’s 500-metre double canoe semifinal at 8:37 p.m. ET Friday.
Then Connor Fitzpatrick will paddle in the men’s 1,000-metre single canoe semifinal at 8:52 p.m. ET, also seeking a top four finish for the Friday night final.
Nicholas Matveev, Mark de Jonge, Pierre-Luc Poulin and Simon McTavish will then race in the men’s 500-metre kayak four semifinal at 9:28 p.m. ET. The team will have to avoid last place if they want to advance to the final later in the day.
Laurence Vincent-Lapointe and Katie Vincent will now race for gold in the women’s 500-metre double canoe final at 10:37 p.m. ET Friday, after placing second in the semifinal.
Fitzpatrick finished eighth in his semifinal round, sending him to the non-medal “petite” final at 10:45 p.m. ET.
Andreanne Langlois, Michelle Russell, Alanna Bray-Lougheed and Madeline Schmidt will then race in their own “petite” final of the women’s 500-metre kayak four event at 11:12 p.m. ET.
Diving – 9 p.m. ET
Nathan Zsombor-Murray will compete in the men’s 10-metre platform semifinal at 9 p.m. ET Friday, after finishing fifth in the preliminary rounds early this morning.
The top 12 divers will move on to the final at 2 a.m. ET Saturday.
Karate – 1 a.m. ET
A Canadian finally makes an appearance in karate’s Olympic debut, with Daniel Gaysinsky taking part in the men’s over-75-kilogram kumite at 1 a.m. ET Saturday.
Gaysinsky will rotate through four pools in the event, facing Brian Irr of the United States, Croatia’s Ivan Kvesic, Kazakhstan’s Tarag Hamedi and Sajad Ganjzadeh of Iran.
A high point total after those four kumite would send Gaysinsky to the semifinal rounds later Saturday morning, with the medal finals taking place at 6:37 a.m. ET for the bronze and 7:05 a.m. ET for gold and silver.
Cycling Track – 2:33 a.m. ET
Kelsey Mitchell and Lauriane Genest will race in the next round of the women’s sprint — Mitchell in the second heat at 2:33 a.m. ET Saturday, then Genest in the fifth heat at 2:42 a.m. ET. A win will send at least one of them to the quarterfinals later Saturday morning.
Hugo Barrette and Nick Wammes will then race in the first round of the men’s keirin event Saturday morning. Barrette will run the second heat at 2:53 a.m. ET, followed by Wammes in the fifth heat at 3:08 a.m. ET.
Then Michael Foley and Derek Gee will race for gold in the men’s madison final at 3:55 a.m. ET Saturday.
Wrestling – 5:45 a.m. ET
Jordan Steen will have one more chance to make it into the medal finals of the men’s 97-kilogram weight class freestyle, facing off in a repechage contest against Italy’s Abraham de Jesus Conyedo Ruano at 5:45 a.m. ET Saturday.
Artistic Swimming – 6:30 a.m. ET
The eight-person team of Emily Armstrong, Rosalie Boissonneault, Andree-Anne Côté, Camille Fiola-Dion, Claudia Holzner, Audrey Joly, Halle Pratt and Jacqueline Simoneau will compete in the team free routine final at 6:30 a.m. ET Saturday.
The team finished fifth in the technical routine on Friday morning. Those scores combined with the free routine scores will determine which countries will walk away with medals.
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