Paris 2024 Odds: How many medals will Canada win?
When it comes to sports, nothing beats the prestige of the Olympic games. While Canada is known more as a winter sports country, they won 24 medals in Tokyo, including seven golds.
Here’s some Canadian athletes to circle ahead of Paris 2024.
Artistic swimming
Jacqueline Simoneau will compete in the duet and team event after originally retiring following the Tokyo games. She enters Paris 2024 fresh off winning duet silver with Audrey Lamothe at a World Cup event in Markham, Ontario in June.
Basketball
Men’s team
Canada hasn’t qualified for the Olympics since Steve Nash led the team to a quarterfinal appearance in 2000. This year’s team is stacked with NBA talent like Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jamal Murray, RJ Barrett and more, but they’ve drawn a tough group with Spain, Greece and Australia. Canada’s favoured result is to reach the quarterfinal at +150.
Women’s team
Kia Nurse headlines a women’s team looking to right the ship after a disappointing result in 2021. They had their best-ever result with a fourth-place finish at the World Cup two years ago, but results have been mixed as they barely qualified for Paris 2024.
3×3 women’s team
Consisting of Paige Crozon, Kacie Bosch and twin sisters Michelle and Katherine Plouffe, this team is expected to be a medal contender. Bosch and the Plouffes are the top three ranked players in the world and the team is tied with Australia for the second-shortest gold medal odds at +350, trailing only the United States at -110.
Beach volleyball
Brandie Wilkerson and Melissa Humana-Paredes were teammates at York University before reuniting in 2022. They enter Paris 2024 ranked third in the world, so they should be solid medal contenders.
Boxing
Canada hasn’t won an Olympic boxing medal since heavyweight David Defiagbon took home silver in Atlanta in 1996, but middleweight Tammara Thibeault has a good chance to end that drought. Thibeault reached the quarterfinals in Tokyo and she won gold at the 2022 World Championship.
Breaking
The dance sport will be a one-off as it’s making its Olympic debut in Paris, but it won’t be featured in Los Angeles in 2028. Philip Kim took home the silver medal at last year’s World Championship and he won gold in 2022.
Canoe, sprint
Katie Vincent was part of the team that won bronze at the Tokyo Olympics, while she also won bronze at last year’s worlds with current partner Sloan MacKenzie. Vincent and MacKenzie have the second-shortest to win gold in the women’s C2-500 metres at +300.
Golf
Brooke Henderson will represent the women and for the men it will be Corey Conners and Nick Taylor.
Henderson is currently ranked seventh in the 2024 LPGA standings, but she has just one top-10 finish in her last eight events.
Conners has three top-10s in his last five events, including a T9 finish at this year’s U.S. Open.
Taylor is remembered for winning the Canadian Open last year and he also won the Phoenix Open this year.
You can find the Olympic golf odds here.
Judo
Catherine Beachuhemin-Pinard is ranked second in the world in the 63 kg weight class and won bronze at the Tokyo Olympics, although she failed to make the podium at this year’s World Championships.
Christa Deguchi was born in Japan and originally competed for the country until she began representing Canada in 2017. Deguchi is ranked first in the world and should be a real medal threat.
Rowing
At +1600 to win gold, there could be some good value on Canada’s women’s eight team. Four members of the gold medal winning team from Tokyo are returning and Canada also won gold at the last World Cup event in Switzerland.
Soccer
The Canadian women are the reigning Olympic champions, but it’s a new era with Christine Sinclair no longer leading the squad. Canada has reached the podium in each of the last three Olympics, although the team has struggled recently, including failing to make it out of the group stage at last year’s World Cup.
Swimming
Swimmers representing Canada for Paris 2024 include Summer McIntosh (women’s 200-metre butterfly, 200-metre individual medley, 400-m IM, 400-m freestyle), Joshua Liendo (men’s 100-m butterfly, 100-m freestyle, 50-m freestyle), Maggie Mac Neil (women’s 100-m butterfly) and Kylie Masse (women’s 100-m backstroke, 200-m. backstroke).
McIntosh is expected to be Canada’s breakout star of the Olympics, much like Penny Oleksiak was in 2016. The 17-year-old is the world-record holder in the 400-metre individual medley and she’s a medal threat in the 200-metre IM, 200-metre butterfly and 400-metre freestyle.
Liendo has meadaled three times in the last two World Championships, including a silver in the 100-metre butterfly last year.
Mac Neil is the defending Olympic champion in the 100-metre butterfly and she won silver at last year’s worlds.
Masse won two bronze and two silver medals over the last two Olympics, but she finished off the podium at last year’s worlds.
You can find the Olympic swimming odds here.
Tennis
Gabriela Dabrowski and Canadian-born teammate Erin Routliffe reached the Wimbledon doubles final earlier this month, but Routliffe represents New Zealand, so Dabrowski is partnering with Leylah Fernandez in Paris. Dabrowski is ranked third in the world in doubles, while Fernandez is ranked No. 23 in singles and reached the French Open doubles final last year.
You can find the Olympic tennis odds here.
Track and field
Marco Arop (men’s 800 metres) is one of Canada’s stronger gold medal hopefuls. The reigning world champion is looking for his first Olympic medal after being eliminated in the semifinals in Tokyo.
Andre De Grasse (men’s 100/200 metres) is Canada’s most well known track star after winning three medals at each of the last two Olympics, including gold in the 200 metre in Tokyo. He’s not favoured to medal in Paris, but he could have one last big performance ahead of him.
Evan Dunfee (men’s 20-km race walk) finished with a bronze medal in the 50-km race walk in Tokyo, but that event has been axed from the program. Dunfee took home fourth in the 20-km event at last year’s world championship.
Ethan Katzberg (men’s hammer throw) is the reigning world champion and he’s won his last 13 events dating to June 2023.
Sarah Mitton (women’s shot put) won a silver medal at last year’s worlds and gold at the 2024 World Indoor championship.
Camryn Rogers (women’s hammer throw) finished fifth in Tokyo and won gold at last year’s worlds.
Damian Warner (decathalon) has done nothing but improve at the Olympics, finishing fifth in 2012, winning bronze in 2016 and taking gold in Tokyo. Warner has had a great year, including winning the Hypomeeting Gotzis in Austria for the eighth time in May.
Christopher Morales Williams (men’s 400 metres) set an unofficial world indoor record earlier this year before turning pro and he had the best outdoor time in 2024 until earlier this month.
Weightlifting
Maude Charron won gold in the 64 kg division in Tokyo, but that weight class has been eliminated from the Olympics, so she’ll drop to 59 kg in Paris. Charron set a Canadian record at 59 kg in the lead-up to Paris 2024.