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Canadian triumphsTORONTO (CP) — Canada won a second gold medal in the world water-ski championships Sunday when Joel McClintock, 18, of Mississauga, Ont., won the men’s over-all competition.He dethroned defendingchampion Mike Hazelwood of Britain and became thesecond Canadian to win the men’s over-all title. The lastCanadian to win was George Athans in 1973.Pat Messner, 25, of Ottawahad earlier won Canada’s first gold medal in women’sslalom.McClintock accumulated 2,706.12 points en route to the title while Carlos Suarez of Venezuela, the 1975 over-all winner, was second with2,669.14 and the silver.Hazelwood finished third with 2,628.65 for the bronze.But Hazelwood was still able to taste victory when he won a gold medal in the men’s jumping competitions with a combined leap of 342 feet. His elimination jump of 172 feetwas added to Sunday’s jumpof 170 feet.He went into the jump finals knowing he had to jump 180 feet, a personal best, to retain his over-all title.But a slight headwind hampered all of the top seeded jumpers and only a couple of the early finalists were able to better their jumps from the elimination round.McClintock took the silver medal in the jumping com-7 petition with a combined jumpof 338 feet.That distance was matched by fellow Canadian Bruce Reid of Selkirk, Man., but Reid was given the bronze medal based on his lesser jump in Sunday’s final round.
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Mon, Sep 24, 1979
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