Steven Dubois wins 3 races to highlight Canada's 7-medal Sunday at short track worlds

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Canada's men's abbreviated way relay squad joined their women's counterparts connected the apical of the velocity skating podium, 1 of 4 golden successful a seven-medal haul Sunday at at the ISU world championships successful Beijing.

Team reportedly won astir events outright astatine the contention for 1st clip since 1994

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· Posted: Mar 16, 2025 9:18 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Canadian velocity skater Steven Dubois is chased by Liu Guanyi of China during the men's 5,000-metre relay last astatine the ISU satellite abbreviated way championships successful Beijing connected March 16, 2025.

Canada, which earned 3 medals connected Saturday, won the astir events outright astatine worlds for the archetypal clip since 1994, according to NBC Sports.

William Dandjinou, Steven Dubois, Maxime Laoun and Felix Roussel posted a clip of six minutes 41.271 seconds implicit 5,000 metres, followed by China (6:41.840) and South Korea (6:41.891).

WATCH | Dubois leads Canada's men to relay golden successful Beijing:

Canada's men skate to 5,000m relay golden successful Beijing

Maxime Laoun, Felix Roussel, Steven Dubois, and William Dandjinou bushed retired China and Korea to the apical podium astatine the abbreviated way worlds.

Courtney Sarault, Rikki Doak, Florence Brunelle and Kim Boutin were victorious successful the women's 3,000 relay connected Saturday.

Montreal's Dandjinou also prevailed in the men's 1,500m implicit Stijn Desmet of Belgium, stopping the timepiece successful 2:15.064, and grabbed metallic successful the 1,000 (1:23.352) down Dubois of Terrebonne, Que., who clocked 1:23.348.

WATCH | Dubois, teammate Dandjinou spot 1-2 successful men's 1,000 metres:

Steven Dubois and William Dandjinou photograph decorativeness the 1,000m to instrumentality golden and silver

Steven Dubois of Terrebonne, Que., narrowly edged Montreal's William Dandjinou by .004 seconds to assertion golden astatine the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships.

Sunday's relay triumph was the 3rd of the time for Dubois, who captured the mixed relay with Boutin, Brunelle and Danjinou successful 2:36.232 implicit Italy (2:36.619).

A time earlier, Dubois captured gold in the men's 500.

Doak and Sarault collected idiosyncratic metallic connected Sunday successful the 500 and 1,500.

Doak, who hails from Fredericton, crossed the decorativeness enactment successful 42.286. Xandra Velzeboer of the Netherlands was victorious successful 42.132.

WATCH | Doak grabs metallic successful women's 500m:

Montreal's Rikki Doak wins metallic successful the 500m astatine abbreviated way worlds

Rikki Doak finished conscionable 0.154 seconds from the apical of the podium astatine the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships successful Beijing.

Sarault, from Moncton, N.B., reached the decorativeness successful 2:27.194 down South Korea's Minjeong Choi (2:27.136).

WATCH | Sarault secures 1,500m metallic successful China: