anada earned its second Olympic luge medal on Thursday in dramatic fashion, finishing second in the team relay at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games.
The team of singles sliders Alex Gough and Sam Edney and doubles duo Tristan Walker and Justin Snith raced to silver in a time of two minutes 24.872 seconds.
The powerhouse Germans won gold in 2:24.517 while Austria took bronze in 2:24.988.
The Canadians mobbed Walker and Snith after their doubles run put Canada atop the standings with just the Austrians and Germans to go.
They jumped for joy after the Austrians failed to beat their time, and wrapped themselves in Canadian flags after the race.
The medal was redemption for the Canadian team, which finished fourth in the relay when it made its Olympic debut four years ago -- a mere tenth of a second back of third.
The foursome got bumped up to bronze for what would have been Canada's first luge podium at a Games in December when two Russian competitors were among dozens of athletes from the host nation stripped of their 2014 results and banned for life for alleged doping violations by the International Olympic Committee.
But the Canadians were once again pushed back to fourth following the Court of Arbitration for Sport's recent decision to overturn the punishment for 28 of those athletes, including lugers Albert Demchenko and Tatiana Ivanova.
Gough secured Canada's first-ever Olympic medal in luge with a bronze in Tuesday's women's race.
In the team relay, the women's slider goes first, followed by the men's racer and the doubles partners, with each striking the finish pad at the bottom of the track to signal they've completed their run.
Edney was sixth in Sunday's men's race, while Walker and Snith were fifth in Wednesday's doubles at the 16-curve Olympic Sliding Centre track in the South Korean mountains that measures just over 1,200 metres.
Edney has said he will retire after these Games, Gough seems likely follow suit, and Walker and Snith indicated their futures remain very much up in the air.
Prior to Gough's bronze earlier this week, Canada had failed to win a luge medal at every Games since making its debut in the sport all the way back in 1968.
The relay silver is Team Canada's 13th medal of the winter games and 3rd of the day, having also captured a bronze in pairs figure skating and gold in 10,000 m speedskating.
with a file from Siobhan Morris