Canadian surfer Sanoa Dempfle-Olin certified for subsequent summer time’s Olympic Video games in Paris by reaching the Pan American Video games girls’s shortboard remaining Monday.
The 18-year-old from Tofino, B.C., posted scores of 4.50 on her first wave and 5.50 on her second to win the bronze-medal warmth 10-4.20 over Leilani McGonagle of Costa Rica.
Olin superior to the gold-medal spherical towards Brazil’s Tatiana Weston-Webb, scheduled for 12:33 p.m. ET.
Canada didn’t have a surfer within the sport’s Olympic debut in Tokyo two years in the past.
Olin’s older sister Mathea received Pan Am Video games bronze in Lima, Peru in 2019.
In April, Sanoa Olin clinched a spot on the Pan Am Video games inserting fourth on the Pan American Browsing Video games in Santa Catalina, Panama.
Final month, she received girls’s shortboard on the North American Qualifying Collection in Nags Head, N.C., for her first victory in three finals this 12 months. Mathea edged her in February on the SLO CAL Open at Morro Bay, Calif.
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