Canada picks up shock trampoline medal at Paris Olympics

Before the workday officially started for most Canadians, there’s been yet another medal handed out at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

In her first time at the Olympic Games, Sophiane Méthot has won bronze in women’s trampoline at Paris 2024.

With a score of 55.650, Méthot ended up on the podium after finishing in eighth place in the qualifying round.

Great Britain’s Bryony Page won the gold medal, while Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya, competing as a Individual Neutral Athlete, won the silver.

Méthot joins Rosie MacLennan and Karen Cockburn as the third Canadian woman to win a trampoline medal, a sport where Canada has had a bit of a dynasty since the event debuted in 2000 in Sydney.

Cockburn won two silver medals and a bronze from 2000 to 2008 before Rosie MacLennan won back-to-back gold medals at London 2012 and Rio 2016.

Canada now has nine medals at the Paris Olympics, having picked up three gold medals, two bronze and four silver.

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