Mac Neil matches Canadian mark with 4th Pan Am Games gold, tying U.S. swimmer in 50m freestyle
CBC
Maggie Mac Neil is probably starting to feel déjà vu at the Pan Am Games.
The London, Ont., swimmer grabbed a fourth gold medal in four attempts, winning the women's 50-metre freestyle on Tuesday in Santiago, Chile.
Mac Neil, who brought home five medals from last year's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, clocked 24.84 seconds for her victory Tuesday. She shared gold with Gabi Albiero (24.84), whose American teammate Catie DeLoof took bronze in 24.88.
"I'm happy that I could tie for the win. It's still new swimming freestyle for me internationally," Mac Neil said. "The good thing is this is obviously one of my weaker events — I really miss having that extra wall. So I'm really happy with that."
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The 23-year-old Mac Neil has matched fellow swimmer Jessica Deglau (1999) and two others for most gold medals by a Canadian at a single Pan Am Games. She's also even with Marianne Limpert, Joanne Malar, Ralph Hutton and Deglau for most medals (six) by a Canadian swimmer at one Pan Am competition.
The national mark of eight at a single Pan Am Games is held by Willie Weiler from 1963 in artistic gymnastics.
Mac Neil will be part of the Canadian team in the women's 4x100 medley relay on Wednesday, with a heat race scheduled for 9:45 a.m. ET. The final is slated for 4:43 p.m.
She began her Pan Am Games debut teaming with Mary-Sophie Harvey, Brooklyn Douthwright and Katerine Savard to win the women's 4x100 free relay on Saturday.
Victories and Games records followed Sunday in the 100 butterfly and 100 free on Monday.
In Tuesday's race, Mac Neil was 53-100ths of a second shy of the Games mark of 24.31, set by Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace of the Bahamas eight years ago in Toronto.
Mac Neil geared up for these Pan Ams with a fourth-place performance on Oct. 15 in a stacked 100 butterfly field at a World Cup stop in Athens.
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