Canada's wheelchair basketball women end prelims with victory
Shot putter Pamela LeJean narrowly misses podium
Canada's women's wheelchair basketball team rebounded to end the preliminaries with a dominant 82-49 win over host nation Brazil Monday morning at the Rio Paralympics.
Rookie Arinn Young put up 22 points to help secure third place in the highly competitive Pool A behind Germany and Great Britain. Each of the three nations ended round-robin play with a 3-1 record, but Canada had a lower tournament point differential.
There's the final buzzer! Canada wins 82-49 over host nation Brazil and will move on to the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rio2016?src=hash">#Rio2016</a> quarter-finals <a href="https://t.co/Uns9b45ywm">https://t.co/Uns9b45ywm</a>
—@CBCOlympicsThe Canadians will meet the Netherlands in the quarter-finals on Tuesday at 2:15 p.m. ET. The Dutch squad were second in Pool B behind the Americans.
The men's team lost their final game of the tournament, falling to 0-5 at the Rio Games after a 67-46 loss to Turkey.
Canada loses their final game 67-46 to Turkey and finish with an 0-5 record at the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Paralympics?src=hash">#Paralympics</a> <a href="https://t.co/SOTbGQeX21">https://t.co/SOTbGQeX21</a>
—@CBCOlympicsLeJean misses podium
Canada's Pamela LeJean just missed out on a medal in her Paralympic debut, finishing fourth in the women's shot put F53 final.
The 31-year-old from Cape Breton's best throw went 4.16 metres, which was not enough to overtake Greece's Dimitra Korokida for bronze. Bahrain's Fatema Nedham topped the group at 4.76, with India's Deepa Malik capturing silver at 4.61.
Canada's coach Peter Erikson had his appeal rejected after claiming that the gold medallist was throwing (like a baseball) instead of pushing.
CAN launched a protest for F53 Shot Put (regarding athletes throwing instead of "Putting") but it was just rejected. Pam Le Jean remains 4th
—@RobSnoekLIVELeJean is coming off a breakthrough 2015 season that solidified her as one of Canada's best throwers. She claimed gold in shot put at the Parapan American Games in Toronto last summer.
Canadians miss the podium in the pool
Despite setting a new Canadian record, Sarah Mehain finished fourth in the 50-metre butterfly S7 final. The Vernon, B.C. native was joined by Tess Routliffe in the final; the swimmer from Caledon, Ont., finished seventh.
Earlier, Alec Elliot and Nathan Stein were separated by less than half of a second, finishing fourth and fifth respectively in the men's 100butterfly S10. Elliot, from Kitchener, Ont., finished more than two seconds off the podium.
Samantha Ryan of Saskatoon finished fifth in the women's 100 butterfly S10, but set a new Canadian record in the process.