Snowboarder Max Parrot led the way with a golden performance as Canada rebounded from a disappointing Sunday to collect four medals at the Beijing Olympics on Monday.

Parrot won CanadaB次元官网网址檚 first gold medal in Beijing with a dominant performance in the menB次元官网网址檚 snowboard slopestyle, while teammate Mark McMorris took the bronze.

Speedskater Kim Boutin added a bronze medal in the womenB次元官网网址檚 500-metres and CanadaB次元官网网址檚 ski jumpers made history with a bronze in the mixed team event.

ItB次元官网网址檚 the second time in two Games that Parrot, from Bromont, Que., and ReginaB次元官网网址檚 McMorris have appeared together on the slopestyle podium. Parrot finished with the silver four years ago in Pyeongchang, South Korea, while McMorris took bronze.

McMorris also won bronze at the 2014 Sochi Games.

ParrotB次元官网网址檚 Olympic title came three years after he underwent chemotherapy to treat Hodgkin lymphoma.

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It was a day of firsts on the big hill as the team of Alexandria Loutitt, Matthew Soukup, Abigail Strate and Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes won CanadaB次元官网网址檚 first ever ski jumping medal.

TorontoB次元官网网址檚 Boyd-Clowes, 30, secured the bronze on CanadaB次元官网网址檚 final jump, travelling 101.5 metres and scoring 128.1 points.

The mixed team event, which took place at the Zhangjiakou Ski Jump Centre, was making its Olympic debut at the Beijing Games.

The medal was a surprise for the Canadians, who have been steadily climbing the world rankings despite a number of challenges in recent years, including being forced to move their training base to Slovenia after the former training site in Calgary was shut down.

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Boutin, meanwhile, won her second straight Olympic bronze in the womenB次元官网网址檚 500-metre event. The medal, her fourth, means she is now tied with Tania Vicent as CanadaB次元官网网址檚 most decorated female short-track speedskater.

Boutin, the world record holder in the event, finished third in a time of 42.724 seconds, behind Italian great Arianna Fontana who won gold in a time of 42.488 thanks to a late push past Suzanne Schulting of the Netherlands, who claimed silver in 42.559.

The 27-year-old from Sherbrooke, Que., who has struggled in the aftermath of online death threats she faced following her 2018 performance, broke into a wide grin as she crossed the finish line.

Canada now has two multi-medal days since hardware started being handed out on Saturday.

Skier Jack Crawford of Toronto came close to adding to CanadaB次元官网网址檚 haul with a fourth-place finish in the menB次元官网网址檚 downhill. Canada also finished fourth in the team figure skating event, which featured another standout performance from 18-year-old Madeline Schizas, who is competing at her first Olympics.

Crawford went 12th in the menB次元官网网址檚 downhill, and his time of 1:42.92 was good for second place after his run.

It wasnB次元官网网址檛 quite enough, as gold medallist Beat Feuz of Switzerland knocked Crawford down to third on the very next run, and 19th skier Johan Clarey of France knocked the Canadian out of medal contention.

Crawford ended up 0.07 seconds behind bronze medallist Matthias Mayer of Austria.

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While Canada fell short of repeating as team figure skating champion, it was a strong debut for Schizas.

The native of Oakville, Ont., was third in womenB次元官网网址檚 singles free skate, following up a solid short program two days earlier that had propelled Canada into the final round.

Skating to PucciniB次元官网网址檚 B次元官网网址淢adama Butterfly,B次元官网网址� Schizas was virtually flawless en route to scoring 132.04 points.

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Russia won the team gold with 74 points, while the U.S. took the silver with 65 and Japan won bronze with 63.

Meanwhile, Canada wonB次元官网网址檛 defend its mixed curling title after John Morris of Canmore, Alta., and OttawaB次元官网网址檚 Rachel Homan lost 8-7 in an extra end to Italy in their final preliminary round game. Two measures were needed to confirm that CanadaB次元官网网址檚 final stone was outside the winning Italian rock.

Canada came into MondayB次元官网网址檚 action needing a win over undefeated Italy after dropping an extra-end decision to last-place Australia the night before.

Canada had a chance to put pressure on the Italians while up 7-5 in the eighth end, but Homan was light with her final draw that set up an Italian deuce.

With guards cleared in the extra end, the Canadians slightly mismanaged their final shot.

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Canada finished tied in fourth place at 5-4, but Sweden took the tiebreaker to move on to the evening semifinals. Italy (9-0), Norway (6-3) and Great Britain (6-3) earned the top three seeds.

And in womenB次元官网网址檚 hockey, Canada defeated Russia 6-1 in a game that was delayed when the Canadians refused to leave their locker room because COVID-19 tests taken earlier in the day by the Russian athletes had not yet been processed. The game finally got underway with players from both teams wearing masks underneath their face cages.

CanadaB次元官网网址� improved to 3-0, spreading the scoring around in their win over Russia.

Sarah Fillier, Jamie Lee Rattray, Sarah Nurse, Rebecca Johnston, Erin Ambrose and captain Marie-Philip Poulin scored for Canada, who will meet Team USA on Tuesday.

The game was able to go when the International Ice Hockey Federation eventually reached a compromise to have players from both teams wear masks, a first at the Beijing Olympics.

Forward Oxana Bratisheva said through a team translator that the Russian team was initially told the game would be postponed before being told it would proceed an hour late.

The Russian players eventually were allowed to remove their masks at the start of the third period after the test results showed no one was positive. The Canadians kept their masks on.

B次元官网网址擳he Canadian Press