Weekend warriors: medals, records, Canada's women do it all

Canadian athletes were a busy bunch on the weekend.

Whether it was on the court, in the water, or on the track, medals were won, and records were set – a lot of it was done by Canadian women. 

Brittany Crew, 23, headed to the Summer Universiade games in Taipei after recently becoming the first Canadian woman to throw in a shot put final at worlds. Once again, Crew did not disappoint, claiming gold on Sunday with a throw of 18.34 metres, which was just shy of her own Canadian record of 18.47.

Crew carried long distance runner Jessica O'Connell, who picked up a silver in the 5000m.

Alysha Newman rounded out the Canadian success on the track, breaking her own pole vault national record again. Newman cleared 4.75 metres, beating her own previous height of 4.71, which she set at the Hurricane Alumni Invitational earlier in 2017.

Laurence Vincent-Lapointe definitely got the memo to turn it on at the ICF canoe sprint world championships. Not only did she win gold with Katie Vincent on Saturday in the C2 500-metre, but she also paddled to a C1 200m gold on her own in world record time on Sunday.

The 4x100-metre freestyle relay squad — Taylor Ruck, Penny Oleksiak, Rebecca Smith and Kayla Sanchez — dominated the competition at the FINA world junior championships, winning gold and setting a new world junior record of three minutes, 36.19 seconds, besting the previous mark by almost three seconds.

The individual medals were flowing in the pool as Jade Hannah won Canada's first solo gold, swimming to a first place finish in the 50 backstroke.