Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
According to Lori Ewing of the Canadian Press, the Canada Summer Games in Niagara, Ontario has moved from 2021 to 2022 due to coronavirus. The event was to take place from August 6-21, 2021. Now it will be in the Read more
Quebec has cancelled its fall university sport schedule due to coronavirus according to the Canadian Press. The sports that are impacted the most are football and rugby. Even though the university sport schedule has been cancelled, each Quebec university will Read more
Marco Arop of Edmonton, Alberta won his second medal in two weeks at a Diamond League event in Stockholm, Sweden on Sunday. Arop won a silver medal in the men’s 800 metres, nine days after winning a bronze medal in Read more
In his first ever Diamond League competition, Marco Arop of Edmonton, Alberta came away with a bronze medal. On Friday at the Herculis Track and Field Meet at Stade Louis II in Fontvieille, Monaco, Arop placed third in the men’s Read more
The Canadian Premier League for soccer has found a home for their 2020 season. According to The Canadian Press, the league will have a 35-game season starting on August 13 and ending in September at the University of Prince Edward Island Read more
Nine-time Canadian Paralympic gold medalist Benoit Huot of Longueuil, Quebec, has been named the Canadian Chef de Mission for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, according to the Canadian Press on Tuesday. Huot won nine gold medals in swimming for Read more
All Canadian university football players who were to be in their senior season in 2020, will have another opportunity to play football in 2021 according to Devin Heroux of CBC Sports. Initially when the 2020 Canadian university football season was Read more
Mohammed Ahmed of St. Catharines, Ontario won the gold medal on Tuesday in the men’s 1500 metres at the 2020 Bowerman Track Club Intrasquad Meet in Portland, Oregon according to the Canadian Press. Ahmed posted a winning time of 3:34.89. He Read more
According to the Canadian Press on Monday, the 2020 Toronto Waterfront Marathon has been cancelled because of coronavirus. The event was scheduled for October 18, and normally has approximately 25,000 runners. There have been 37,163 cases of coronavirus in Ontario, Read more
Mohammed Ahmed of St. Catharines, Ontario broke his own Canadian record in the men’s 5000 metres on Friday according to Athletics Weekly. Ahmed posted a time of 12 minutes, 47.20 seconds in winning the gold medal at the 2020 Portland Read more