Canada’s Taylor Ruck swims to 200 backstroke gold at World Cup event

Canada's Taylor Ruck swam to a gold medal in the women's 200-metre backstroke Friday at a World Aquatics Swimming World Cup event. Ruck swam to victory in a time of two minutes 2.29 seconds. The 26-year-old from Kelowna, B.C., won gold in the same event at last week's World Cup stop in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Anna Peplowski of the United States was second in 2:03.81, and Ellen Walshe of Ireland finished third in 2:04.33. Ruck's medal was Canada's first at the Astana World Cup stop, which is the final event of the circuit and runs through Saturday. She enters the final...