Team Canada wins 92 medals at the Commonwealth Games - CanadianInvestor CanadiansInvest
Team Canada competed at the XXII Commonwealth Games, winning 92 total medals, 26 gold, 32 silver and 34 bronze medals. The team, comprised of 110 Olympians and Paralympians, won eight medals in para sports. 59 medals were won by women or mixed teams and 33 medals were won by men. Swimming as a sport contributed the most medals with 20, followed closely by wrestling with 12 medals won. Athletes from Ontario contributed to the most medals, followed closely by Quebec.
At the helm of this accomplished world-class Team Canada were co-Chefs de Mission, 2010 and 2018 Commonwealth Games sprinter Sam Effah and Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist, Olympic Bronze Medalist and 2018 Chef de Mission Claire Carver-Dias. Sad the 2022 Games are over, Effah and Carver-Dias noted the great accomplishments of the organizing committee and the honour that they experienced co-leading this specific Team Canada.
Birmingham 2022 featured 19 sports and eight para-sports as part of its program with up to 4,500 athletes taking part. The Commonwealth Games are unique in that they are the only multi-sport event that feature equal standing for sport and para-sport events, and these 2022 Games showcased the largest para-sport program ever and more medal events for women than men .
Canada set records in the pool including a new Canadian, world junior and Commonwealth record in the 400-m individual medley , 200-m individual medley Games record , men’s 50-m freestyle S13 Canadian and Games record , 2×50-m back Games record and 200-m freestyle S14 Games record .
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