Hillary Janssens and Caileigh Filmer went out hard early and led halfway through their gruelling 2,000\u002Dmetre women’s pair final.
With New Zealand surging at the 1,500-metre mark and the Russian Olympic Committee blasting through the last 500, the Canadians wound up with bronze medals on Thursday morning at Tokyo’s Sea Forest Waterway.
The Canadians won their heat, then finished third in their semi-final and felt they hadn’t emptied their competitive tanks before the final. They took care of that. Canada’s Caileigh Filmer and Hillary Janssens after winning the bronze in the women’s pair rowing final event during the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, in Tokyo, Thursday, July 29, 2021.Filmer and Janssens teamed up in 2018 and found almost immediate success together. They won their first World Cup event and went on to score the gold medals at the worlds in Bulgaria later that year.
Tokyo 2020 Olympics – Rowing – Women’s Pair – Medal Ceremony – Sea Forest Waterway, Tokyo, Japan – July 29, 2021 Bronze medallists Caileigh Filmer of Canada and Hillary Janssens of Canada celebrate with their medals in their boat REUTERS/Piroschka Van De WouwThey persevered and on Thursday morning in Tokyo they gave the New Zealanders all they could handle through the first half of the race.
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