Canadian speedskaters win bronze in women’s short-track 3000-metre relay
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MILAN – Canada’s speedskaters have won bronze in the women’s 3,000-metre short-track relay at the Milan Cortina Olympics.
The team of Danaé Blais, Florence Brunelle, Kim Boutin and Courtney Sarault reached the podium at three-tenths of a second behind South Korea.
Host Italy claimed silver at 0.093 seconds behind the Koreans.
Canada held the lead for long stretches of the final but eventually slipped to third place.
“It’s really special. We all know that short track is a very intense sport. So coming to the finals, I think we knew we had a really strong team, and we were going to give it (our) all,” said Brunelle.
“And finishing with bronze, at first we were like, looking at each other, ‘OK, are we happy? And then we’re like, ‘Man, we’re happy.'”
Boutin, Brunelle, Sarault and Alyson Charles finished fourth at the 2022 Beijing Games.
It’s Sarault’s fourth medal at the Milan-Cortina Games, and she becomes the first Canadian short-track speedskater to reach the podium four times at a single Winter Olympics.
For Boutin, it was her second medal in Milan Cortina and the sixth of her career, tying her with Charles Hamelin and Cindy Klassen as Canada’s most decorated Winter Olympians.
“That’s super cool. For me, six medals with the girls, and finally, a medal that I really wanted to work forward to. So I’m pretty happy,” said Boutin.
The bronze was Canada’s 13th medal at the Games and fourth in short track speedskating. The total later rose to 14 medals overall and five in short track with Steven Dubois’s gold in the men’s 500 metres.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 18, 2026.
