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Teenage swimmer Sebastian Massabie received his first-ever gold and wheelchair racer Cody Fournie sprinted to his second title of the Paris Games right now as Canada surpassed its medal rely from the earlier Summer Paralympics.

Massabie, 19, captured his first Paralympic medal of any color in model, smashing the world file to win the males’s 50-metre freestyle S4 occasion. Fournie, a former member of the nationwide wheelchair rugby workforce, accomplished a monitor dash double by including the males’s 100m T51 title to his gold in the 200m. He set a brand new Paralympic file.

Those victories mixed with discus thrower Jesse Zesseu’s silver in his Paralympic debut introduced Canada’s tally to 23 medals — eight gold, seven silver and eight bronze. That’s two extra medals (and three extra gold) than Canadians received in 2021 in Tokyo, with two days of competitors nonetheless remaining earlier than the closing ceremony on Sunday at 2 p.m. ET.

Here’s the full medal desk and this is a roundup of prime Canadian performances on Day 9.

WATCH | Massabie breaks world file:

Canadian medal possibilities on the final weekend

Here are some prime contenders, in chronological order:

Track and area: Austin Smeenk in the males’s 800m T34 final Saturday at 4:11 a.m. ET. The world file holder goes for his second medal of the Games after taking bronze in the 100m. Smeenk will as soon as once more battle Thailand’s Chaiwat Rattana, who beat him for the 100m gold and had the 800m world file earlier than Smeenk broke it in June. 

Canoe/kayak: Brianna Hennessy and Erica Scarff in the girls’s va’a single 200m occasions on Saturday. A va’a is a canoe-like boat with an outrigger for stability. Hennessy, who has received three straight silver medals in the VL2 class at the world championships, received her warmth Friday to advance to the final on Saturday at 5:52 a.m. ET. Scarff, a silver medallist in the VL3 class eventually 12 months’s worlds, positioned third in her warmth however can nonetheless attain the final on Saturday 6:36 a.m. ET through the semifinals earlier in the day.

Road biking: Nathan Clement in the males’s T1-2 highway race Saturday at 6:45 a.m. ET. The former Paralympic swimmer goes for his second medal of the Games after taking silver in the time trial. He earned a silver and a bronze in the highway race at the previous two world championships. Alexandre Hayward might problem for the podium in the males’s C1-3 highway race at 3:30 a.m. ET after inserting fifth in the time trial and taking bronze in a monitor biking occasion earlier in the Games.

Sitting volleyball: Canada vs. Brazil in the girls’s bronze recreation Saturday at 9 a.m. ET. After getting a silver at the most up-to-date world championships, the Canadian girls will strive to win the nation’s first Paralympic medal on this sport. They face a Brazilian workforce that went 3-0 in the group stage, together with a win over Canada.

Wheelchair basketball: Canada vs. Germany in the males’s bronze recreation Saturday at 10 a.m. ET. The Canadians acquired trounced 80-43 by the reigning Paralympic and world champion United States in the semifinals. But they’ve an amazing likelihood to salvage a bronze towards a German workforce they beat 68-52 in the group stage. It could be Canada’s first Paralympic wheelchair basketball medal since 2012, when the males received their third gold in 4 Games. Patrick Anderson, who performed an element in all of these title wins plus a silver in 2008, continues to be going robust at age 45. The Canadian co-flagbearer ranks fourth in the event in scoring with a mean of 19.0 factors per recreation and is third in rebounding with 9.4. The gold-medal recreation between the U.S. and Great Britain is at 3:30 p.m. ET.

Swimming: Shelby Newkirk in the girls’s 100m backstroke S6 final Saturday at 11:53 a.m. ET. The 28-year-old has an amazing likelihood to win her first Paralympic medal after capturing the previous two world titles on this occasion. Newkirk got here shut in the 50m freestyle final week, inserting fourth.

Swimming: Danielle Dorris and Tess Routliffe in the girls’s 50m butterfly S7 final Saturday at 12:36 p.m. ET. Dorris has dominated this occasion, profitable Paralympic gold in 2021 and back-to-back world titles in 2022 and ’23. Routliffe joined her on the podium at each world championships, taking bronze and silver. She’s making an attempt for her third medal of those Games.

Track and area: Nate Riech in the males’s T38 1,500m final Saturday at 1:09 p.m. ET. Another gold medal may very well be in retailer for the middle-distance star, who’s the reigning Paralympic and world champion and world file holder on this occasion. Riech’s center title is Graywolf — a nod to his father’s Indigenous roots and now Riech’s ferocious alter ego on the monitor. Read extra about that right here.

Track and area: Noah Vucsics in the males’s lengthy soar T20 final Saturday at 1:20 p.m. ET. The now 24-year-old broke out eventually 12 months’s world championships, taking silver with a soar simply 5 centimetres in need of the winner’s. Vucsics, who competes in a classification for athletes with an mental impairment, was adopted from Haiti as an toddler by Canadian mother and father who shortly seen he was fairly the “jumping bean.” Read extra about him right here.

Canoe/kayak: Brianna Hennessy in the girls’s kayak single 200m KL1 on Sunday. Along together with her trio of silvers in the va’a, Hennessy has received a pair of bronze medals on this occasion at the world championships. After inserting fourth in her warmth Friday, she’ll want to undergo the semifinals on Sunday at 4 a.m. ET to attain the final at 5:25 a.m. ET. Also on Sunday, Canada’s Mathieu St-Pierre will strive to get by means of the semifinals in the males’s va’a single 200m VL2 to attain the final at 5:49 a.m. ET.

Wheelchair basketball: Canada vs. China in the girls’s bronze recreation Sunday at 4:30 a.m. ET. Canada gave the reigning Paralympic and world champion Netherlands an actual scare in right now’s semifinals earlier than shedding 72-61. Kady Dandeneau had one other large recreation for Canada, placing up 24 factors, 13 rebounds and 10 assists. To win their first Paralympic medal since taking bronze in 2004, the Canadian girls may have to overcome a Chinese workforce that took silver at the 2021 Paralympics and the most up-to-date world championship, and which beat Canada 70-65 in the group stage. The Netherlands will face the United States for gold at 7:45 a.m. ET on Sunday.

Before we wrap up for the week, I need to ship out a giant thank-you to ace CBC Sports researcher Jen Haynes. It wouldn’t have been doable to write these day by day Paralympic previews with out her improbable work behind the scenes.

WATCH | Setting up Day 10 on CBC Sports’ Rise and Stream:

How to watch the Paralympics

Go right here to select the stay occasions you need to watch and discover replays and highlights. See the full streaming schedule right here.

You may also catch the motion in Paris through three day by day stay reveals on the CBC TV community, CBC Gem and CBC Sports’ Paris 2024 web site and app. There’s Petro-Canada Paris Prime, hosted by Scott Russell, at 2 p.m. ET; Toyota Paralympic Games Primetime, hosted by Russell and Stef Reid, at 8 p.m. in your native time zone; and Canadian Tire Paralympics Tonight, hosted by Devin Heroux and Roseline Filion, at 11:30 p.m. native.

Digital protection may also embrace day by day episodes of Rise and Stream, highlighting the must-see occasions and Canadians to observe, and Hot Takes, that includes interviews with athletes and analysts. Both reveals can be found on the Paris 2024 website and on CBC Sports’ YouTube channel, Facebook, Instagram and X. Here’s extra on CBC’s Paralympics protection.