Canada’s Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard earned a silver medal in the world judo championship Sunday.
The 28-year-old from Montreal, who was a bronze medallist in last summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, lost to Japan’s Megumi Horikawa in the women’s 63-kilogram final in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The result had Beauchemin-Pinard contemplating the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
“When I won my bronze medal at the Olympics, I knew I wanted to keep competing for at least another year so that I could win the one medal I didn’t have, a world championships medal,” Beauchemin-Pinard said.
“I’m happy to say that I did it, I achieved my goal. It definitely makes me feel like trying for the gold medal, but I’m going to take it one step at a time.”…