Canada's Boutin claims silver in both 500m, 1,500m at short track worlds in Montreal

Canada's Kim Boutin has quickly made herself at home on the podium at the ISU short track speed skating world championships.

Boutin, who had won bronze at the Beijing Games in February in the 500m, finished with a time of 42.570 seconds, just .094 seconds back of winner Xandra Velzeboer of the Netherlands.

Dutch skater Yara van Kerkhof placed third (42.642), while Montreal native Alyson Charles finished fourth (42.772). 

WATCH | Boutin on winning pair of silver medals at worlds:

Kim Boutin talks about winning two silvers at short track worlds

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Kim Boutin of Sherbrooke, Que., won silver in both the 500m and 1,500m at the short track worlds in Montreal.

Earlier, the 27-year-old Boutin crossed the finish line for the 1,500m with a time of two minutes, 24.201 seconds, narrowly edging out third-place finisher Seo Whimin of South Korea and fellow Canadian Courtney Sarault by less than a second.

South Korea's Choi Minjeong grabbed gold (2:23.594), breaking past the field with three laps to go and never giving any room to be passed for the remainder of the race.

Boutin's string of podium of finishes has placed her in first in the overall rankings, three points ahead of Minjeong and five points ahead of Velzeboer.

WATCH | Boutin grabs silver in 1,500m at worlds:

Kim Boutin wins 1,500m short track silver at world championships

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The Canadian speed skater finished second to South Korea's Minjeong Choi in Montreal on Saturday.

Hamelin moves closer to storybook ending

Canada's men's and women's relay teams both advanced to the Sunday final by finishing second in their respective semifinal heats.

The Netherlands finished first in the men's 5,000m relay semifinal, while South Korea and Hungary also qualified by finishing behind Canada in third and fourth place, respectively. 

The Canadian team of Kim Boutin, Courtney Sarault, Danaé Blais and Florence Brunelle finished second behind South Korea in the women's 3,000m relay semifinal. The Netherlands finished third ahead of the Italian team.

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Dion also strikes silver

Dion finished 0.549 seconds out of first place in the men's 1,500m final with a time of 2:15.644 seconds.

The Montreal native was narrowly edged out by Hungary's Liu Shaoang, with Stijn Desmet of Belgium finishing third.

WATCH | Dion wins silver, says he knew what he was capable of:

Pascal Dion wins silver in 1,500m, says he knew what he was capable of

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Montreal's Pascal Dion finished second in the men's 1,500m final at the short track worlds in front of the home crowd.

Dion was the lone Canadian to crack Final A as he edged out teammate Jordan Pierre-Gilles for the final qualifying spot by 0.39 seconds in their semifinal heat.

Dubois, of Terrebonne, Que., who won three medals in Beijing, took a fall in the semifinals and finished sixth in the same heat.

You can watch competition from the short track worlds, continuing on Sunday on CBCSports.ca, CBC Gem and on the CBC Sports app for iOS and Android devices. 

You can watch more coverage by streaming Road to the Olympic Games on Saturday and Sunday at 4 p.m. ET. Check your local listings for TV broadcast times.