{"id":56519,"date":"2015-07-21T11:37:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T03:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=56519"},"modified":"2015-07-21T11:37:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T03:37:01","slug":"canadian-maxime-potvin-earns-mens-taekwondo-silver-medal-at-pan-american-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/21\/canadian-maxime-potvin-earns-mens-taekwondo-silver-medal-at-pan-american-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Maxime Potvin earns men\u2019s taekwondo silver medal at Pan American Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_56520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56520\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11178271_10155461444965532_1620669936088104933_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56520\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11178271_10155461444965532_1620669936088104933_n.jpg\" alt=\"Maxime Potvin (Facebook photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11178271_10155461444965532_1620669936088104933_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11178271_10155461444965532_1620669936088104933_n-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Maxime-Potvin-Taekwondo-Canadian-Athlete\/264369015531\" target=\"_blank\">Maxime Potvin<\/a> (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MISSISSAUGA \u2013 Canada\u2019s Maxime Potvin earned a silver medal in the men\u2019s 68-kilogram taekwondo event Monday at the Pan American Games.<\/p>\n<p>Potvin, 27, of Quebec City, fell 6-3 to Mexico\u2019s Saul Gutierrez in the final at the Mississauga Sports Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Gutierrez outscored Potvin 3-0 in an extra fourth round for the win.<\/p>\n<p>Povtin won all three of his matches en route to the gold medal, first defeating Brazil\u2019s Henrique Precioso 15-5 before earning a 13-11 semifinal win over American Terrence Jennings.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Evelyn Gonda of New Westminster, B.C., lost a 10-3 decision to Cuban Yamicel Nunez for bronze in the women\u2019s 57-kilogram class.<\/p>\n<p>Gonda, 18, won her first two matches by 12-point margins before dropping a 10-6 semifinal decision to Mexican Paulina Armeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MISSISSAUGA \u2013 Canada\u2019s Maxime Potvin earned a silver medal in the men\u2019s 68-kilogram taekwondo event Monday at the Pan American &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":56520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-56519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}