Courtney Sarault joins Canadian Olympic royalty after winning fourth medal
Canadian Olympic short-track speed skater Courtney Sarault joined an exclusive club on Wednesday.
The “beast from the east,” as she jokingly calls herself, has been piling up medals in Milan.
The 25-year-old from Moncton, N.B., won her fourth medal of the Milano Cortina Olympics, securing bronze with the Canadian women’s 3000m relay team.Ā Sarault has also won silver (women’s 1000m) and bronze (women’s 500m) in individual events, in addition to silver in the mixed relay.
What an Olympics it has been for Courtney Sarault (Katie Stratman/Imagn Images)
The list of Canadian Olympic athletes who have won four or more medals at a single Games is a short one.
Summer McIntosh (four at Paris 2024) and Penny Oleksiak (four at Rio 2016) have done it in swimming at the Summer Olympics. Cindy Klassen is the only Canadian to win five medals at a single Olympics, doing so in long-track speed skating at the Torino 2006 Winter Games.
That makes Sarault just the fourth Canadian athlete ever to win four or more medals at a single Olympics, summer or winter.
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The only thing Sarault is missing now is a gold medal, but she does have one last chance to stand at the top of the podium.
Sarault’s final competition takes place on Friday in the women’s 1500m, where she is considered a medal threat.
Regardless of that result, Sarault will be proud of her historic performance. She’ll also surely be a candidate to be Canada’s flag bearer at the Closing Ceremony.