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Canada’s Penny Oleksiak wins record 6th Olympic medal at Tokyo Summer Games
Tokyo Olympics and sixth of her career, taking bronze in the women’s 200-metre freestyle swim Wednesday.The medal makes Oleksiak the most decorated Canadian athlete to ever compete at the Summer Games.Her six-medal haul also ties the 21-year-old with the most decorated Canadian athletes in any Olympics, joining speed skater Cindy Klassen and cyclist and speed skater Clara Hughes in the record books.Oleksiak finished with a time of 1:54.70, just over a second behind gold medal winner Ariarne Titmus of Australia, who set a new Olympic record. Hong Kong’s Siobhan Bernadette Haughey nabbed the silver.