Long weekend recap: Men's hockey worlds heat up

Jesse Campigotto · CBC Sports

· Posted: May 20, 2025 4:39 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

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Here's a look astatine however Canadian athletes fared connected the planetary signifier implicit the past fewer days.

Hockey: Canada suffered its archetypal nonaccomplishment astatine the men's satellite championship

After crushing its archetypal 5 opponents by a combined people of 28-2, Canada fell 2-1 successful a shootout against Finland yesterday successful Sweden. Canadian stars Sidney Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon were some stopped by Finland goalie Juuse Saros successful the tiebreaker.

At our people time, Canada (16 points) was playing unbeaten Group A person Sweden (18) successful their preliminary-round finale. Finland finished with 16 points, truthful a regularisation triumph would springiness the Canadians archetypal spot successful the group, but they could extremity up arsenic debased arsenic 3rd with a regularisation loss. Austria (10 points) secured 4th spot and its archetypal playoff berth successful 31 years by defeating Latvia 6-1 this morning.

Three of the 4 quarterfinal entries from Group B person been decided. Surprising Switzerland (19 points), the United States (17) and the Czech Republic (17) volition beryllium joined by either Denmark oregon Germany (nine points each), who were playing for the past playoff spot astatine our people time. The quarterfinals each instrumentality spot connected Thursday.

Golf: Taylor Pendrith earned his champion decorativeness ever astatine a major

The 33-year-old Canadian tied for 5th successful the PGA Championship astatine Quail Hollow successful Charlotte, N.C., firing a 3-under 68 successful the last circular connected Sunday to decorativeness astatine 5 under. That was six shots down satellite No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, who pulled it unneurotic aft a shaky beforehand 9 to win by five over chap Americans Bryson DeChambeau, Harris English and Davis Riley. It's Scheffler's 3rd large rubric and his archetypal extracurricular of the Masters.

In his different 7 majors, Pendrith had ne'er finished higher than a necktie for 16th and missed the chopped 4 times. His T5 moved him up 11 spots successful the men's satellite rankings to No. 38. That's the second-highest among Canadians, down Corey Conners, who climbed 2 spots to No. 19 aft finishing successful a necktie for 19th astatine the PGA Championship. No. 42 Nick Taylor, No. 48 Mackenzie Hughes and No. 98 Adam Hadwin each missed the cut.

The Canadian Open is 2 weeks away. It'll beryllium hosted by TPC Toronto astatine Osprey Valley successful Caledon, Ont.

Track and field: Solid results for Canadian sprinters

Andre De Grasse finished second in the men's 200m and Sade McCreath was 3rd successful the women's 100m astatine the World Athletics Continental Tour's Golden Grand Prix conscionable successful Tokyo connected Saturday night.

De Grasse clocked 20.29 seconds to decorativeness 0.05 down victor Robert Gregory of the United States. McCreath (11.46) was conscionable up of reigning satellite champion and Paris Olympic metallic medallist Sha'Carri Richardson of the U.S. (11.47) successful a contention won by Australia's Bree Rizzo successful 11.38. De Grasse's relay teammate Jerome Blake did not beforehand past the heats successful the men's 100m.

Aaron Brown (another subordinate of Canada's Olympic-champion men's 4x100m team) placed fourth in the men's 200m astatine Friday's Diamond League conscionable successful Doha. Olympic golden medallist Letsile Tebogo of Botswana won it successful a pedestrian 20.10 portion Brown came successful astatine 20.35.

Olympic women's rod vault bronze medallist Alysha Newman finished eighth connected Friday successful Doha. Britain's Molly Caudery won the event, portion satellite champion Katie Moon of the United States tied for second.

Twenty-year-old Jamaican twins Tia and Tina Clayton took the apical 2 spots successful the women's 100m successful Doha, with Tia winning successful a world-leading 10.92 seconds. Thirty-eight-year-old Jamaican large Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was 4th successful her archetypal Diamond League quality of what she says volition beryllium her last season. Here are each the results from Doha. 

Other cardinal Canadian results:

* Olympic canoe champion Katie Vincent won gold in the non-Olympic women's C-1 500m astatine the World Cup opener successful Hungary. Vincent placed 4th successful the C-1 200m (the lawsuit she won astatine the Paris Olympics), missing the podium by 0.01 of a second. The squad of Sophia Jensen, Sloan MacKenzie, Zoe Wojtyk and Jacy Grant took bronze successful the women's C-4 500m, different lawsuit that is not connected the Olympic program.

* Canada took metallic successful its 3x3 hoops Women's Series play debut successful Amsterdam, losing 21-11 to the big Netherlands successful Saturday's final. The Canadian squad was led by Katherine Plouffe, who topped the tourney successful rebounds, and Paige Crozon, who ranked 3rd successful scoring. Plouffe, her duplicate sister Michelle Plouffe, Crozon and Kacie Bosch mislaid the Olympic bronze-medal crippled to the U.S. past year.

* Swimmer Ingrid Wilm won the women's 100m backstroke and placed 2nd successful the 50m backstroke astatine the Mare Nostrum Tour opener successful Monaco. Wilm was sixth successful the 100 backstroke astatine past year's Paris Olympics.

* Triathletes Tyler Mislawchuk and Charles Paquet finished sixth and 10th, respectively, successful a men's World Triathlon Championship Series contention successful Yokohama. Stefan Daniel took bronze successful the Para men's event.

* Road cyclist Derek Gee climbed from 29th wide successful the Giro d'Italia to 12th done today's 10th stage. Gee finished 22nd wide successful his Giro debut successful 2023 earlier placing ninth successful his archetypal Tour de France past year. At a Para Cycling Road World Cup lawsuit successful Italy, Alexandre Hayward won the men's C-3 clip proceedings portion Jessica Law took metallic successful the women's C-5 roadworthy contention and Maarten Duif grabbed a metallic and a bronze successful H-1 races.