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Canada looks to add to 16-medal total on final day

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GOLD COAST, Australia – Taylor Ruck has a chance to add to her historic Commonwealth Games as Canada enters the final night of swimming with 16 medals.

The men’s 4×100-m medley relay (Markus Thormeyer, Eli Wall, Josiah Binnema and Ruslan Gaziev) advanced to finals through Tuesday heats, as did Para-swimmers Morgan Bird and Abi Tripp in the women’s 50-m freestyle S8. They will join Yuri Kisil (men’s 50-m freestyle), Kylie Masse and Jade Hannah (women’s 50-m backstroke) and the women’s medley relay in the final session.

The women’s relay will likely include Ruck, who matched an all-time single-Games best for a Canadian woman with her seventh medal Monday. She has a chance to match the best ever total in the Commonwealth, which has been done by Canadian Ralph Hutton (1966), and Australians Susie O’Neill (1998) and Emily Seebohm (2010).  Kisil, who finished seventh in the 100-m freestyle earlier in the Games, will likely anchor the men’s relay.

Mary-Sophie Harvey (Trois-Rivieres, Que.) started the morning for Canada by finishing ninth in the women’s 400-m freestyle (4:14.26). Mack Darragh of Oakville, Ont., was also ninth, with a time of 2:01.67 in the 200-m individual medley. Toronto’s Tristan Cote (University of Calgary) was 14th in 2:03.09.

Finals get underway at 7:30 p.m. local time (5:30 a.m. ET) and will be streamed live on the DAZN platform, which also features on-demand content.