Aurlie Rivard claims silver for 2nd Rio Paralympic medal

AurlieRivardwon her second medal of the Rio Paralympic Games on Sunday, claimingsilver in the 200-metre individual medley S10. Rivard finished in two minutes, 30.03 seconds.

Earlier,BenoitHuotmissed out on his 20th careerParalympicmedal by more than a second, finishing fourth in the 200 IMS10. Fellow Canadian Isaac Bouckley finished eighth.

Here is what happened in the other swim finals featuring Canadians on Sunday:

• Katarina Roxon finished seventh in thewomen's 200 individual medley SM9.
• Zack McAllister finished 7th in the men's 100 freestyleS8.
• Morgan Bird finished 5th, Abi Tripp 7th, in women's 100 freestyle S8.

On the track, Guillaume Ouelletfinished ninthin the 1500 T13 final, running a personal-best time of 3:57.98.

Lakatos earns 2nd medal of Games

Wheelchair racer Brent Lakatos earned his second medal of the Rio Paralympics on Sunday morning with a silver in the men's 400T53 final.

The 36-year-oldMontrealerposteda time of 48.53 seconds to secure the Canadian and Americas recordbehind Thailand's Pongsakorn Paeyo, while France's Pierre Fairbankplaced third.

"I am quite happy with my race personally," Lakatos said."If you would have told me going in that I would have done my second [fastest]time ever I would have been pretty excited about that."

Lakatos set a Paralympic record in the 100 heats on Thursday and went on to convincingly claim gold in that distance.

Stanley adds another podium result

Liam Stanley from Victoria, B.C., made the most of his Paralympic debut by adding a silver to Canada's medal total in the men's1500 T37.

The 19-year-old set a new Canadian record with a time of4:16.72. Ireland's world-record holder Michael McKillop easily took the top prize, while Algeria's MadjidDjemaiearned bronze. Canada's Shayne Dobsonwas fifth in a personal-best time.

''It went well but a little faster than I expected,'' Stanley said. "I just tried to hold on to him. I stuck to the game plan and just executed. "

Stanley is best known as a member of Canada's para-soccer national team, but opted to compete in athleticsafter the groupfailed to qualify for Rio.

Canada claims rowing bronze

Earlier,Canada's LTA mixed coxedfour rowing team took bronze.

Victoria Nolan, Meghan Montgomery, Andrew Todd and Curtis Halladayearned another medal forCanada to round out the podiumbehind Great Britain and the United States.

It was ahistoric finish for the Canadians in the 1000-metre race.

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Victoria Nolan, Meghan Montgomery, Andrew Todd and Curtis Halladay took third in the LTA mixed coxed four rowing.

Only 0.29 seconds separated silver and bronze.Canada clocked a time of three minutes,19.90seconds tonarrowly missovertaking the Americans.

"We came back on the U.S. in a big way," Montgomery said."We got from the stern to just being a bow ball away from silver. It was a good race."

Women's team suffers 1st loss, men drop to 0-4

Canada's women's wheelchair basketball team took its first hit at the Rio Paralympics, falling to the Germans by a score of 68-54.

Cindy Ouelletled the Canadian charge with 23 points.The top-ranked Canadians are 2-1 with one last preliminary match remaining.

They face off against the host nation Monday at 10:45 a.m. ET.

In the men's tournament, Canada fell to 0-4 after losing to Japan 76-45.