Canada wins rowing gold in women’s eight at Pan Am Games
By The Canadian Press on October 24, 2023.
SANTIAGO, Chile – Canada won gold in the women’s eight rowing event to kick off Tuesday’s competition at the Pan Am Games. The Canadian squad of Kendra Hartley (Calgary), Olivia McMurray (Red Deer, Alta.), Ailzée Brien (Sainte-Agathe, Que.), Parker Illingworth (Seattle), Abby Spiers (Victoria), Shaye De Paiva (Calgary), Abigail Dent (Kenora, Ont.), Leia Till (Potomac, Md.) and coxswain Kristen Kit (St. Catharines, Ont.) led at all 500-metre checkpoints and finished the 2,000-metre race in six minutes 10.7 seconds. The United States was second in 6:14.17 and host Chile was third in 6:17.78. It was Canada’s third rowing medal of the Games. Dent and McMurray took silver in women’s coxless pair and Hartley, Illingworth, Brien and De Paiva earned bronze in women’s quadruple sculls on Monday. Kit was coxswain when Canada won women’s eight gold for the first time in 29 years at the Tokyo Games. She will also cox Canada’s boat in the mixed eight A final Wednesday. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 24, 2023. 7-6
