Canada's Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard earned a silver medal in the world judo championship Sunday.
The 28-year-old from Montreal, who was a bronze medallist in last summer's Olympic Games in Tokyo, lost to Japan's Megumi Horikawa in the women's 63-kilogram final in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.“When I won my bronze medal at the Olympics, I knew I wanted to keep competing for at least another year so that I could win the one medal I didn’t have, a world championships medal," Beauchemin-Pinard said.
Beauchemin-Pinard won her first three bouts quickly Sunday in under 70 seconds in each with victories over Audrey Jeanette Etoua Biock of Cameroon, Iva Oberan of Croatia and Renata Zachova of the Czech Republic. "Throughout the fight, I was able to block her, but her technique got the best of me at the very end, when I had gotten a bit tired," Beauchemin-Pinard said.
"I’m happy with my result, but right now, I’m mostly feeling the bitterness of defeat. A silver medal is always a bit hard to take, and it might take a few days before I feel good about it.”
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