TORONTO, Canada—GOLD!!!!!
The Canadian women’s national team are on top of the world, defeating Sweden 1-1 (3 -2) via a penalty shootout to capture the Gold Medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
The Gold Medal is the nation’s first Olympic Gold medal in soccer.
With the Gold, Canada are just the third nation in the world to win three Olympic medals in women’s soccer (after USA and Germany) and one of only two nations in the world to win an Olympic medal in each of the last three Olympic Games (Brazil in men’s soccer and Canada in women’s soccer).