Canadian boxer Tammara Thibeault accomplished her two missions at the Pan American Games.

The 26-year-old from Shawinigan, Que., won gold in womenB次元官网网址檚 middleweight and also qualified for next yearB次元官网网址檚 Olympic Games in Paris.

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Thibeault defeated PanamaB次元官网网址檚 Atheyna Bylon by unanimous decision Friday in a rematch of their 2022 world championship final, which Thibeault also won.

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The Canadian qualified for Paris with her semifinal victory the previous day. The top two fighters in most weight classes in Santiago, Chile, punched their tickets to Paris.

Thibeault will box for Canada at an Olympic Games a second time after reaching the quarterfinals in Tokyo two years ago.

Her bronze medal at the 2019 Pan Am Games in Lima, Peru, was upgraded to silver a year later because of a doping violation by an opponent.

Wyatt Sanford of Kennetcook, N.S., also won gold Friday with a unanimous 5-0 decision over MexicoB次元官网网址檚 Miguel Angel Martinez Rodriguez in the menB次元官网网址檚 light welterweight title bout.

Sanford also qualified for Paris.

Canada won a cycling gold medal in menB次元官网网址檚 team pursuit on Friday.

The Canadian team of Carson Mattern, of Ancaster, Ont., VancouverB次元官网网址檚 Campbell Parrish, Michael Foley of Milton, Ont., and VancouverB次元官网网址檚 Sean Richardson finished in a time of three minutes 53.593 seconds to beat Colombia by nearly nine seconds in the final.

VancouverB次元官网网址檚 Rebecca Marino will face off against ArgentinaB次元官网网址檚 Lourdes Carle in the womenB次元官网网址檚 tennis semifinal on Saturday.

Marino, seeded second in the competition, edged Yuliana Lizarazo of Colombia in three sets (7-5, 4-6, 6-4) in a hard-fought quarterfinal battle on Friday.

The Canadian Press