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While we’re into the previous few days of competitors on the World Athletics Championships, a Canadian males’s all-star basketball staff kicks off the FIBA World Cup the place they hope to qualify for subsequent 12 months’s Olympic event.

Also seeking to safe some Olympic quota spots for Paris 2024 are the Canadian paddlers on the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, whereas Brooke Henderson seems to be to return to the leaderboard at her dwelling nationwide open.

Here’s a fast look at what you’ll need to be watching this weekend:

Athletics

So far on the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, it’s been the hammer throw occasions which are the highlights for Canada with Ethan Katzberg and Camryn Rogers making it a clear sweep of the gold medals. But there may be loads of nice motion nonetheless to return.

READ: 5 fun facts about world champion hammer thrower Ethan Katzberg

On Friday, Canada’s decathletes, Pierce LePage and Damian Warner, may have their first day of competitors. The two-day occasion winds up on Saturday. Both head in with the rostrum of their sights. Warner is, after all, the reigning Olympic champion, but additionally has three world championship medals. LePage is certainly one of Canada’s returning medallists, having earned a silver medal ultimately 12 months’s worlds from which Warner needed to withdraw attributable to a hamstring harm.

Saturday will begin with the ladies’s marathon at 7:00am native time in Hungary. Canada will likely be represented by Natasha Wodak and Sasha Gollish. Wodak is the Canadian report holder for the ladies’s marathon, operating 2:23:12 on the Berlin Marathon in September 2022.

Later that day is the ultimate of the lads’s 800m. Marco Arop cruised by the prelims (through which he had time to ease up and low-five a competitor) earlier than clocking a time of 1:44.02 to rank fourth within the semifinals.

Team Canada’s males’s 4x100m relay staff will take to the monitor on Friday for the heats to find out whether or not they advance to Saturday’s closing. Jerome Blake, Aaron Brown, Andre De Grasse and Brendon Rodney are the defending champions from final 12 months’s World Championships, in addition to the Tokyo 2020 silver medallists within the occasion. De Grasse is the one one of many Canadians to advance to Friday’s 200m closing from Thursday’s semis.

Moh Ahmed will compete within the males’s 5000m on Sunday after operating 13:33.16 in a tactical preliminary warmth. Ahmed is the reigning Olympic silver medallist within the distance from Tokyo 2020.

The males’s marathon will happen on Sunday, the ultimate day of the championships. Canada will likely be represented by Rory Linkletter, Ben Preisner and Justin Kent. Linkletter boasts a greatest time of two:10:24, which he ran ultimately 12 months’s World Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Preisner has a private greatest of two:10:17. Kent has a 2:13:07 private greatest.

Basketball

This Friday sees the beginning of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023, hosted by the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia. Held each 4 years, the key males’s basketball occasion additionally serves as a qualifier for the Paris 2024 Olympic event.

READ: Star-studded men’s basketball team chasing breakthrough for Canada at FIBA World Cup

Currently ranked fifteenth on the planet, Canada is in Group H, the place they are going to face France (fifth), Latvia (twenty ninth) and Lebanon (forty third).

Things get off to a flying begin for Team Canada, who tackle France in the beginning of the event on Friday, August 25 at 9:30 a.m. ET. This is adopted by matches towards Lebanon on Sunday, August 27 at 5:45 a.m. ET, and Latvia on Tuesday, August 29 at 9:30 a.m. ET. All these matches happen in Jakarta, Indonesia.

With a number of NBA gamers in its line-up, together with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, R.J. Barrett, Luguentz Dort, Dillon Brooks, Kelly Olynyk, Dwight Powell and Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Team Canada is dealing with some severe expectations.

To progress to the second spherical of the event, which takes place from August 31 to September 4, Canada should end among the many high two groups in its group. A second group stage then determines who strikes onto the playoff spherical.

Canada can qualify for Paris 2024 by ending among the many high two groups within the Americas area on the FIBA World Cup.

Canoe/Kayak Sprint

The 2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are in full swing in Duisburg, Germany. In addition to medals, Olympic quota spots for Paris 2024 are additionally at stake.

Bronze medallist at Tokyo 2020 within the girls’s C-2 500m with now-retired Laurence Vincent Lapointe, Katie Vincent will likely be looking for to earn Canada a quota spot in the identical occasion together with her new teammate, Sloan MacKenzie. They completed sixth within the occasion on the 2022 World Championships, when Vincent received three gold medals and one bronze in occasions not on the Olympic program.

On the lads’s facet, Craig Spence and Alix Plomteux line up within the C-2 500m. C-2 boats should end within the high eight in Duisburg to earn Olympic spots. The girls’s closing is scheduled for Saturday, and the lads’s closing for Sunday.

In the opposite canoeing occasions on the Olympic program, Connor Fitzpatrick will begin the lads’s C-1 1000m occasion, the ultimate of which takes place on Saturday morning. Sophia Jensen is within the girls’s C-1 200m and can attempt to make her means by to the ultimate on Friday. In each occasions, canoers should end within the high 5 to present the nation an Olympic quota.

In the kayak occasions, Michelle Russell represents Canada within the girls’s Okay-1 500m and Cameron Low within the males’s Okay-1 1000m, two occasions through which the highest six finishers will earn an Olympic quota for his or her nation. The finals of those occasions are scheduled for Saturday.

In the ladies’s and males’s Okay-2 500m occasions, the highest six international locations will obtain Olympic quotas. Courtney Stott and Madeline Schmidt would be the Canadian girls in motion, whereas Pierre-Luc Poulin and Simon McTavish are the lads’s representatives. The finals of those occasions will likely be contested on Sunday.

Stott, Natalie Davison, Riley Melanson, Toshka Besharah-Hrebacka compete within the girls’s Okay-4 500m occasion. Laurent Lavigne, Nicholas Matveev, McTavish and Poulin make up the lads’s Okay-4 500m crew. In each occasions, Olympic quotas will likely be awarded to the top-10 international locations, however that should embody 4 completely different continents. These finals happen on Friday.

Women’s Golf

The Canadian Women’s Open is going down this weekend in Vancouver, B.C. on the Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club.

The 15 Canadians within the area are headlined by Brooke Henderson, who describes successful the occasion in 2018 as a profession spotlight. At age 25, Henderson has received 13 LGPA tournaments, however solely that one on dwelling soil.

READ: Brooke Henderson’s 13 legendary LPGA Tour victories

“Every tournament I go into I’m thinking about that moment, all the good stuff that happened and everything that worked out. We strive for that and I still strive for that every day,” Henderson mentioned concerning the 2018 win. “But just knowing I can do it and able to do it here in Canada was amazing. And then I know it’s probably the hardest thing to defend your title, but I’m enjoying everybody here, the atmosphere, and just that stuff makes me a little bit more calmer, a little bit more easy and having to play. But such great vibes, and I’m so lucky to have won and I really want to do it again.”

The area incorporates 9 of the highest 10 girls on the world rankings.

Men’s Golf

On the lads’s facet, Nick Taylor and Corey Connors will tee off within the PGA Tour Championship, going down at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia. This event is reserved for the highest 30 golfers on tour this 12 months.

Taylor received the Canadian Open in June with a 72-foot eagle putt, the primary time a Canadian has received the house nationwide open since 1954.

READ: Top moments in Canadian golf history