Whitney McClintock of Canada makes a gate in slalom at the Women's Waterskiing Overall FinalNathan Denette/Getty Images
Canada won two more gold medals in Wednesday's early competition at the Pan American Games.
Whitney McClintock won the women's water-skiing competition while Hugo Houle finished first in the men's road cycling individual time trial to give the host nation 61 gold medals heading into evening competition on Day 12.
The United States led with 70 gold medals. Canada was well ahead of third-place Brazil, which had 32 gold.
McClintock finished ahead of American Regina Jaquess and Mexico's Carolina Chapoy in the women's water ski.
The native of Cambridge, Ont., took the lead after earning 8,370 points in the tricks event following a disappointing slalom run.
"It's a complete shocker to me, actually," McClintock said. "Today is not the way I planned it to go. Not even a little bit. It seems like on any other given day that would have not won you a gold medal.
"It's one of those hard things to celebrate, but a gold medal is a gold medal."
Jarret Llewellyn of Innisfail, Alta., added a silver in the men's overall.
Houle, of Ste-Perpetue, Que., finished the 37-kilometre time trial in 45 minutes, 13.4 seconds.
"You never know until you start how you're going to feel but today on the first lap, I had to control myself to not go too hard because my body wanted to go," said Houle, who recently participated in the prestigious Giro d'Italia.
"Today I had the best ride of my life for sure."
Mexico's Ignatio Prada was second, 1:17.87 back of Houle, while Sean MacKinnon of Hamilton, Ont., took bronze.
Vancouver's Jasmin Glaesser won silver in the 19.5-kilometre women's individual time trial in 27:01.31.
Countries are sorted by most gold medals