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Two Saskatoon athletes have every received a medal on the 2023 Pan American Video games in Santiago, Chile.
Blake Tierney, 21, received a bronze medal within the 100-metre backstroke occasion Monday.
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Earlier, Rylan Wiens teamed up with Nathan Zsombor-Murray (Pointe-Claire, Que.) to win silver within the males’s synchronized 10-metre platform diving occasion Sunday.
Tierney, a former Saskatoon Goldfins membership member and Walter Murray Collegiate, is learning Biomedical Engineering on the College of British Columba. He helped the UBC Thunderbirds win 2023 U Sports activities nationwide championship titles within the males’s 4x100m and 4x200m freestyle relays and received particular person medals within the 50m backstroke (silver), 100m backstroke (silver), and 200m particular person medley (bronze).
Wiens, 21, made historical past on the 2022 World Aquatics Championships when he and companion Zsombor-Murray captured bronze within the males’s 10m synchro occasion for Canada’s first-ever world championship medal within the occasion. Wiens — who earned his first senior worldwide medal on the FINA Grand Prix in Madrid in 2020, taking silver within the 10m platform — is learning kinesiology on the College of Saskatchewan.
The 2023 Pan-Am Video games proceed till Sunday, Nov. 5 in Santiago.
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