Competitors dive from the starting blocks in the women's 100-meter freestyle S8 final at the World Para Swimming Championships in Mexico City, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017. The World Para Swimming and Para Powerlifting championships are taking place in Mexico's capital through Dec. 8. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
September 24, 2025 - 10:30 AM
SINGAPORE — Danielle Dorris earned a silver medal in the women’s 100-metre backstroke S7, and Mary Jibb took bronze in the women’s 100 freestyle S9 on Wednesday at the world para swimming championships.
Dorris, a three-time Paralympian from Moncton, N.B., finished second in her race in one minute 22.11 seconds -- one second behind Ukraine’s Veronika Korzhova. Mallory Weggemann of the United States, the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic champion, was third in 1:23.61.
Dorris was the defending world champion in the event after finishing as the runner-up in 2022.
“I’m just ecstatic to be on the podium again, said Dorris, who turned 23 on Monday. “I know the 50 fly is my event, but I just love the 100 back. Every time I get a chance to swim it, I really enjoy it. I think at heart, I would love to do the 100 back all the time."
Jibb won her second medal of the world championships after finishing third in her race in 1:02.71. Alexa Leary, the reigning Paralympic gold medallist and defending world champion from Australia, won in 59.19. Mariana Ribeiro, the 2022 world champion from Brazil, was second in 1:01.64.
The 18-year-old Jibb, from Muskoka, Ont., won the 200 individual medley on Monday and has set a new Canadian record in all three of her races in Singapore.
"I’m just super happy with this,” Jibb said of her debut world championships. "I’m just trusting my training, we’ve been working really hard in practice, and it’s all paying off."
Canada has one gold, one silver and three bronze medals entering the final three days of competition.
In other results Wednesday, Reid Maxwell of St. Albert, Alta., was fourth in the men’s 100 free S8 in Canadian record time, Quebec City’s Nicolas-Guy Turbide was fourth in the men’s 100 backstroke S13, and Abi Tripp of Kingston, Ont., was seventh in the women’s 100 free S8.
Competition continues Thursday, as Dorris attempts to win a third straight S7 world title in the 50 butterfly.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 24, 2025.
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