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For Canada's water polo teams, Pan American Games provided valuable testing ground

Kindred Paul and her Canada women's water polo national squad teammates placed runner-up in the Pan American Games competition, which wrapped up on Saturday in Lima, Peru. | REUTERS

By Ed Odeven
Staff Writer

Aug 15, 2019

The Canada water polo national teams have made steady progress since holding training camps last summer in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, according to Justin Oliveira, Water Polo Canada's high performance director.

In an interview with The Japan Times after the Pan American Games wrapped up last weekend in Lima, Peru, Oliveira said he's pleased with the general direction that Canada's men's and women's teams are headed in.

The Canadian women qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with a silver-medal finish, falling to the United States 24-4 in Saturday's finale. As a result, the team qualified for the Olympics for the first time since the 2004 Athens Games.

For Canada's water polo teams, Pan American Games provided valuable testing ground

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