Canadian women swim to bronze in freestyle relay at world championships
GWANGJU, Korea, Republic Of — The Canadian women’s 4×200-metre freestyle relay team captured a bronze medal on Thursday at the world aquatics championships.
Kayla Sanchez of Scarborough, Ont., Taylor Ruck of Kelowna, B.C., Emily Overholt of West Vancouver and Penny Oleksiak of Toronto set a Canadian record with a time of 7 minutes 44.35 seconds.
Australia won gold and the United States took silver.
It was the fifth swimming medal for Canada at the worlds, the country’s most since hosting in Montreal in 2005. Sanchez, Ruck and Oleksiak also were part of a bronze medal-winning 4×100 metre freestyle relay team.