Sarah Mitton of Brooklyn, N.S., celebrates after winning the women's shot put final at the Pan American Games with a throw of 19.19 metres on Thursday in Santiago, Chile.
Canada won its 36th and 37th gold medals of the 2023 Pan American Games in rapid succession on Thursday with a pair of track and field Olympians topping the podium in Santiago, Chile.Posted: Nov 02, 2023 6:43 PM EDT | Last Updated: 35 minutes agoWatch as CBC Sports takes you through all the top Canadian action from the 2023 Pan American Games from Chile.
Quebec City's Philibert-Thiboutot, 32, strained at the finish line and fell crossing it to edge his Canadian teammate Robert Heppenstall.Philibert-Thiboutot's time was three minutes 39.74 seconds, just two hundredths of a second faster than Hamilton's Heppenstall. Casey Comber of the United States took bronze.
It was Philibert-Thiboutot's second medal in Santiago after a silver in the men's 5,000. He crossed the line third in that race, but was upgraded when Mexico's Fernando Martinez, who crossed the line first, was disqualified for obstruction and jostling.Mitton, 27, won the women's shot put final by over a metre, launching both her fifth and sixth attempts 19.19 metres.
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