Canadian Interuniversity Sport  – RIO DE JANEIRO (CIS) – Thirteen current, former or incoming CIS student-athletes have won medals for Canada at the halfway point of the Rio 2016 Olympics.

Five of the 13 athletes – CIS Female Athlete of the Year and Toronto’s Kylie Masse, Montreal’s Sandrine Mainville and Katerine Savard, along with UBC’s Emily Overholt and Victoria’s Hilary Caldwell – earned bronze in swimming, while eight others helped Canada finish third in the inaugural Olympic rugby sevens competition.

Masse (100-metre backstroke), Mainville (4×100-metre freestyle relay), Caldwell (200-metre backstroke) and rugby sevens player Natasha Watcham-Roy all achieved their Olympic success after reaching the podium at a previous Summer Universiade in the same events. Masse won gold at the 2015 Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea; Mainville, Savard and Watcham-Roy combined for four medals at the 2013 FISU Games in Kazan, Russia and Caldwell captured bronze at the 2011 Universiade in Shenzhen, China.

Two additional former Universiade athletes – swimmer Brittany MacLean and diver Roseline Filion – have also won bronze medals, in the synchronized 10-metre platform and 4×200-metre freestyle relay in Rio.  

A total of 81 current, former or future CIS student-athletes are competing at the 2016 Summer Games.  

The Rio Olympics continue until Aug. 21.

CIS Takes Rio Medallists (as of Aug. 15)

Sport	Name	University	Event (Time/Result)	Medal	Universiade
Swimming	Hilary Caldwell	Victoria	200m backstroke (2:07.54)	Bronze	Silver Shenzhen 2011
	Sandrine Mainville	Montreal	4x100m freestyle relay (3:32.89)	Bronze	Bronze Kazan 2013
	Kylie Masse*	Toronto	100m backstroke (58.76)	Bronze	Gold Gwangju 2015
	Brittany MacLean	Georgia	4x200m freestyle relay (7:45.39)	Bronze	Kazan 2013
	Emily Overholt*	UBC	4x200m freestyle relay (7:45.39)	Bronze	–
	Katerine Savard	Montreal	4x200m freestyle relay (7:45.39)	Bronze	Gold, Silver Kazan 2013
Diving	Roseline Filion	Montreal	Synchronized 10-metre platform	Bronze	Bangkok 2007
Rugby Sevens	Britt Benn	Guelph	Bronze Medal Game vs. Great Britain (W 33-10)	Bronze	–
	Bianca Farella	Concordia			–
	Ghislaine Landry	StFX			–
	Kayla Moleschi	Lethbridge			–
	Karen Paquin	Laval			–
	Kelly Russell	Western			–
	Ashley Steacy	Lethbridge			–
	Natasha Watcham-Roy	Ottawa			Bronze Kazan 2013

*Current/Incoming CIS athlete

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