Canadian rowers Caileigh Filmer, Hillary Janssens win bronze in women’s pair at Olympics
Canadian rowers Caileigh Filmer and Hillary Janssens compete in the Women’s Pair semi-finals during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on July 28, 2021. They won a bronze medal.Victoria’s Caileigh Filmer and Hillary Janssens of Surrey, B.C., took bronze on Thursday in the women’s pair with a time of six minutes 52.10 seconds.
The 2018 world champions finished behind the gold-medal winning duo of Grace Prendergast and Kerri Gowler of New Zealand and the Russian Olympic Committee’s Vasilisa Stepanova and Elena Oriabinskaia .Conlin McCabe of Brockville, Ont., and Kai Langerfeld of North Vancouver, B.C., were the other Canadian rowers in a final Thursday, finishing fourth in the men’s pair on the 2,000-metre course at Sea Forest Waterway.
The Canadians qualified 10 boats for Tokyo – the most since the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta – and have a gender-neutral team for the first time in their history.and follow all of the news, features and opinion in the lead-up to the Summer Games in Tokyo.
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