Rowing Canada / Merijn SoetersCanada women’s eight races to silver in SwitzerlandTeam Canada’s women’s eight raced to a silver in the final rowing World Cup event of the season, in Lucerne, Switzerland, on Sunday. 🚨MEDAL ALERT 🚨🇨🇦Women’s eight bring home 🥈 from @WorldRowing World Cup in #WRClucerne 🎉 pic.twitter.com/RJMOgO0KdQ — Rowing Canada Aviron (@rowingcanada) July 10, 2022They were beaten by the Australian team who clocked in at 06:06.51 to win gold, while Team Romania finished third with a time of 6:08.19. Check out how Canada's women's eight rowing team claimed silver at the World Rowing World Cup 🇨🇦 ⬇️https://t.co/4jF6bKPQjo — CBC Olympics (@CBCOlympics) July 10, 2022Canada led the first half of the race with a lead of over a second over the field, but the Australians slowly narrowed the gap with about 700 metres remaining. Australia would maintain their position as Canada resisted Romania’s push in the final meters of the race. Canada is the defending Olympic champion in the women’s eight, with Payne, Wasteneys and Kit were part of the being part of the Canadian eight who won Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020.

Source: CBC News July 10, 2022 17:08 UTC