Canadian wheelchair racer Austin Smeenk won his first career Paralympic medal on Monday with bronze in the men's T34 100 metres.

The Oakville, Ont., native finished in a time of 15.19 seconds at Stade de France, earning Canada's sixth bronze and 10th medal of these Games.

The 27-year-old accelerated into medal position down the stretch to finish just 0.05 seconds behind silver medallist Walid Ktila of Tunisia, who entered the race as the three-time defending champion.

"It's fantastic. It feels good to finally break the ice on my first Paralympic podium," Smeenk said.

Thailand's Chaiwat Rattana won the gold medal while setting a Paralympic record in 14.76.

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Canada's Austin Smeenk rolls to a Paralympic bronze medal

Austin Smeenk of Oakville, Ont., won a bronze medal in the men's 100-metres T34 final at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.

Smeenk delivered Canada's second medal on the track in Saint-Denis, north of Paris. Fellow wheelchair racer Brent Lakatos was a silver medallist in the men's T53 400m on Sunday.

Smeenk finished seventh three years ago in Tokyo and sixth in his Paralympic debut at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.

"To get the medal means the culmination of yesterdays have finally come to fruition today. I learned a bit yesterday [heats] and it's about taking away what we can to be a little bit smarter every day," he said.

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Austin Smeenk elated to finally win his 1st Paralympic medal

After missing out on a medal at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, Austin Smeenk of Oakville, Ont., tells CBC Sports' Devin Heroux that he is elated to win a bronze medal at Paris 2024.

Smeenk registered the fourth-fastest qualifying time, winning his heat in 15.38.

He won silver in the event at the World Para Athletics Championships last July.

He will race his heat in the event on Friday at 6:10 a.m. ET, with the final scheduled for Saturday at 4:12 a.m. ET. Watch live coverage on CBC Gem, the Paris 2024 website and the Paris 2024 mobile app for Android and iOS devices.

"It's one of my strongest events," Smeenk said. "I got the world record this year but performances pre-Paralympics don't mean very much.

"I'm not going to be sleeping on the results I've produced so far. It's about what I can produce on the day."

Smeenk was born with a hereditary form of paraplegia that causes stiffness in the lower limbs.

Taylor takes triathlon bronze

Canada's Leanne Taylor earned triathlon bronze earlier in the day in the women's PTWC category.

The 32-year-old from Winnipeg finished third in the women's wheelchair triathlon behind victor Lauren Parker of Australia and silver medallist Kendall Gretsch of the United States.

"I don't think it's really set in yet. ... it meant so much to me to have a performance that got them to cheer even louder than they already were. I'm super excited," Taylor said after the race.

"It was a really tough day for me. Even coming into it, I wasn't feeling well coming into the race, so I was really nervous about how hard I was going to be able to push."

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Winnipeg's Leanne Taylor captures Paralympic triathlon bronze

The 32-year-old from Winnipeg finished third in the women's PTWC wheelchair triathlon behind victor Lauren Parker of Australia and silver medallist Kendall Gretsch of the United States.

Taylor made her Paralympic debut in Paris. She was paralyzed from the waist down in a mountain bike crash five years ago.

"I was injured in a bike accident six years ago, and there's a massive group of people who supported me to get to this point. Just to have something to show them like 'this is why we did it,'" she said.

The distance is a 750m swim, a 20-kilometre handbike and a five-kilometre wheelchair race.

Taylor posted an overall time of one hour 12 minutes and 11 seconds.

Parker upgraded her silver medal from Tokyo after clocking 1:06:23, dethroning defending champion Gretsch (1:07:46).

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Leanne Taylor happy to see her hard work be rewarded with a Paralympic triathlon bronze

Winnipeg's Leanne Taylor spoke with Radio-Canada Sports' Jean St-Onge after winning a bronze medal in the women's PTWC wheelchair triathlon race.

Para triathlon had the same scheduling problems as in the Olympic Games.

The schedule was altered and races postponed because of water quality issues in the Seine River.

Other Canadian results:

• Kamylle Frenette finished one spot off the podium in the women's PTS5 triathlon with an overall time of 1:07:25.
• In wheelchair rugby, Canada lost 53-50 to host France on Monday, confirming a 6th-place finish in the event at the Paris Paralympics for the world No. 5 team.