At 4:30 p.m. Beijing time Saturday - while Canadians back home were losing sleep over Canada's medal production - Canada's men's pairs team of David Calder and Scott Frandsen sat on the water, awaiting the start of their race. Canada had zero medals at these Olympic Games. Suddenly, in a span of less than 60 minutes, Canada went from three goose eggs to bronze, silver and gold. And nobody felt better about it than the men's rowing pair, and wrestlers Carol Huynh and Tonya Verbeek.
GOLD - Carol Huynh, 48-kilogram freestyle wrestling
Canadian freestyle wrestler Carol Huynh won a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, defeating Chiharu Icho of Japan in the women's 48-kilogram final Huynh posted a 4-0, 2-0 win for her first career Olympic medal. The 27-year-old from Hazelton, B.C., won gold at last year's Pan American Games and a bronze medal at the 2005 world championship. She also won silver in the 46-kilogram division at the 2001 world championship and bronze at the 2000 event.
SILVER - Dave Calder and Scott Frandsen, Men's Pairs, Rowing
Canadian rowers Dave Calder and Scott Frandsen captured a silver medal at the Beijing Olympics. Calder, from Victoria, and Frandsen, from Kelowna, B.C., clocked a time of six minutes 39.55 seconds, nearly five seconds ahead of the bronze medallists from New Zealand. The Canadians were about two seconds behind Australia for gold. Calder rowed in the men's pair four years ago in Athens. That crew was disqualified from the semifinal for leaving their lane.
BRONZE - Tonya Verbeek, 55-kilogram freestyle wrestling
After Carol Huynh's gold medal win the women's 48-kilogram final, Tonya Verbeek added a bronze medal about 25 minutes later by beating Sweden's Ida-Theres Nerell 1-0, 1-0 in the 55-kilogram category. Verbeek, from Beamsville, Ont., won silver at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
